4.The boy was a conservative student,and worked hard at his studies. 5.He went to a restaurant before he was kidnapped. Read Passage 1 again and then try to give short answers to Questions 6-10.Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 6.How old was the kidnapped boy? 7.In which city did the kidnapping happen? 8.What was special about his grandfather? 9.Who received an anonymous telephone call about the kidnap? 10.Where was he last seen? PartⅡ Questions 11-20 are based on Passage 2. Passage 2 Chinese table tennis players have set new records in the past two years.Following a clean sweep of seven titles at the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships in 1995,Chinese players wowed audiences at the Atlanta Olympics by bagging all four golds.After that,the gold medals for both the First Women's Singles World Cup and the 17th Men's Singles World Cup went to Deng Yaping and Liu Guoliang,and all four champions of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)Pro-Tour Finals'96 were Chinese players. We should,at the same time,however,be aware of hidden troubles behind so much glory.The three top players in the men's team,Kong Linghui,Liu Guoliang and Ding Song,are still quite young.Kong was in difficulty for all of 1996.In Atlanta,he was distracted and finally ousted by Taek Soo Kim of the Republic of Korea in the second round of the men's singles.Fortunately,he had the chance to redeem himself as world champion by grabbing the men's doubles title with his team-mate Liu Guoliang. Liu Guoliang is another leading player.Following two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics,he beat quite a few top European players and garnered the men's single title at the last World Cup.Liu is the strategic weapon for the Chinese team against the Europeans, but he has his weak points.Continuous forehand attacks,proportional use of forehand and backhand techniques and lack of agility are problems that he has yet to overcome. Ding Song gained fame almost overnight for his unique combination of offense and defense at the 43rd World Table Tennis Championship in 1995.Today,however,the 6194. The boy was a conservative student , and worked hard at his studies. 5. He went to a restaurant before he was kidnapped. Read Passage 1 again and then try to give short answers to Questions 6-10. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 6. How old was the kidnapped boy? 7. In which city did the kidnapping happen? 8. What was special about his grandfather? 9. Who received an anonymous telephone call about the kidnap? 10. Where was he last seen? Part II Questions 11-20 are based on Passage 2. Passage 2 Chinese table tennis players have set new records in the past two years. Following a clean sweep of seven titles at the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships in 1995 , Chinese players wowed audiences at the Atlanta Olympics by bagging all four golds. After that , the gold medals for both the First W omen Singles W orld Cup and the 17th Men' s Singles World Cup went to Deng Yaping and Liu Guoliang , and all four champions of the International Table Tennis Federation (lTTF) Pro-Tour Finals' 96 were Chinese players. We should , at the same time , however , be aware of hidden troubles behind so much glory. The three top players in the men' s team, Kong Linghui , Liu Guoliang and Ding Song , are still quite young. Kong was in difficulty for al1 of 1996. In Atlanta , he was distracted and final1y ousted by Taek Soo Kim of the Republic of Korea in the second round of the men's singles. Fortunately , he had the chance to redeem himself as world champion by grabbing the men' s doubles title with his team-mate Liu Guoliang. Liu Guoliang is another leading player. Fol1owing two gold medals at the 1996 Olympics, he beat quite a few top European players and garnered the men' s single tit1e at the last World Cup. Liu is the strategic weapon for the Chinese team against the Europeans, but he has his weak points. Continuous forehand attacks, proportional use of forehand and backhand techniques and lack of agility are problems that he has yet to overcome. Ding Song gained fame almost overnight for his unique combination of offense and defense at the 43rd World Table Tennis Championship in 1995. Today , however, the 619