41. A)consist B)diviates from C)begins with D)transforms into 42. A)What B)It C)Whatever 43. A)pai B)offered C)applied D)extended 44.A)replaced B)supplied C)supplemented D)distorted 45. A)has distinguished B)distinguished by C)to distinguish D)distinguishing 46. A) Even if B)Although C)Since D)No matter how 47.A)avoids B)escapes Attracts D)repels 48.A)answer B)reply Reaction Response 49. A)provided for B)provided in C)provided by D)provided with 50. A)so B)far C)forth D)much Part III Reading Comprehensio Directions: Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked (B),(C),(). Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer ti each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWEr Sheet I by blacking the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil (40 Points Passage 1 The Supreme Court s recent decision allowing regional interstate banks has done away with one restriction in America s banking operation, al though many others still remain. Although the ling does not apply to very large money-center banks, it is a move in a liberalizing direcion that could at last push Congress into framing a sensible legal and regulatory system that allows banks to plan their future beyond the next court ca The restrictive laws that the courts are interpreting are mainly a legacy of the bank failures of the 1930 s. The current high rate if bank failure- higher than at any time since the Great Depression- has made legislators afraid to remove the restrictions. While their legislative timidity is understandable, it is also mistaken. One reason so many American banks are getting into trouble is precisely that the old restrictions make it hard for them to build a domestic base large and strong enough to support their activities in todays telecommunicating round-the-clock, around-the-world financial markets. In trying to escape from this restrictions, banks are taking enormous, and what should be unnecessary, risks. For example, would a large bank be buying small, failed savings banks at inflated prices if federal law and states regulations permitted that bank to explain instead through the acquisition of financially heal thy banks in the region? Of course not. The solution is clear. American banks will be sounder when they are not geographically limited. The house of Representative s banking committee has shown part of the way forward by recommending common-sensical, though limited, legislation for a five-year41.A)consists in B)diviates from C)begins with D)transforms into 42.A)What B)It C)Whatever D)One thing 43.A)paid B)offered C)applied D)extended 44.A)replaced B)supplied C)supplemented D)distorted 45.A)has distinguished B)distinguished by C)to distinguish D)distinguishing 46.A)Even if B)Although C)Since D)No matter how 47.A)avoids B)escapes C)attracts D)repels 48.A)answer B)reply C)reaction D)response 49.A)provided for B)provided in C)provided by D)provided with 50.A)so B)far C)forth D)much Part III Reading Comprehension Directions： Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each question there are four answers marked (A), (B), (C), (D). Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer ti each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET I by blacking the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil (40 Points) Passage 1 The Supreme Court's recent decision allowing regional interstate banks has done away with one restriction in America's banking operation, although many others still remain. Although the ruling does not apply to very large money-center banks, it is a move in a liberalizing direcion that could at last push Congress into framing a sensible legal and regulatory system that allows banks to plan their future beyond the next court case. The restrictive laws that the courts are interpreting are mainly a legacy of the bank failures of the 1930's. The current high rate if bank failure - higher than at any time since the Great Depression - has made legislators afraid to remove the restrictions. While their legislative timidity is understandable, it is also mistaken. One reason so many American banks are getting into trouble is precisely that the old restrictions make it hard for them to build a domestic base large and strong enough to support their activities in today's telecommunicating round-the-clock, around-the-world financial markets. In trying to escape from this restrictions, banks are taking enormous, and what should be unnecessary, risks. For example, would a large bank be buying small, failed savings banks at inflated prices if federal law and states regulations permitted that bank to explain instead through the acquisition of financially healthy banks in the region? Of course not. The solution is clear. American banks will be sounder when they are not geographically limited. The house of Representative's banking committee has shown part of the way forward by recommending common-sensical, though limited, legislation for a five-year