摘要寫作(30 分)
Please read the following article and summarize the main points in English in less than
100 words. Do NOT copy sentences from the passage.
Sport matters in South Africa. In his new year’s address to the nation, President Jacob
Zuma described 2010 as “the most important year in our country since 1994”. To
outsiders, playing host to this year’s football World Cup seemed perhaps a less momentous
event than holding the country’s first fully democratic elections that established a black-
majority government 16 years ago. But with the kick-off on June 11th, just days after the
country’s 100th birthday on May 31st, the world’s eyes will be on Africa’s leading
economy for the next few weeks.
Can the “miracle” nation conquer the bitter divisions between blacks and whites of its
past to turn itself into the “rainbow nation” of Nelson Mandela’s dreams? Or will it
become ever more mired in bad governance, racial tension, poverty, corruption, violence
and decay to turn into yet another African failed state? Many South Africans, black and
white, worry that their country may be reaching a tipping point.
99年公務人員特種考試警察人員考試及
99年特種考試交通事業鐵路人員考試試題
類 科: 外事警察人員
全一張
(背面)
Western fans arriving in South Africa for the World Cup could be forgiven for
thinking that they were still in the rich world. Much of the infrastructure is as good as you
will find anywhere. Ten spectacular stadiums have been newly built or upgraded at a cost
of 15 billion rand. Visitors arriving at O.R. Tambo, the main international airport, will be
whisked into Johannesburg by the Gautrain, Africa’s first high-speed rail link. And many
of the country’s hotels and restaurants are world-class, including Bushmans Kloof hotel,
recently voted the world’s best by Travel + Leisure website.
But in reality South Africa is no more than a middle-income developing country with
a GDP per person of around $10,000, a quarter of the American figure. On a per-head
basis, it is the seventh-richest country in Africa by some measures. The average hides huge
disparities. Under apartheid, whites were encouraged to believe they were part of the
Western world. Many now complain about falling standards. Yet most whites have done
rather well since apartheid ended—better, in fact, than most blacks. They still enjoy a good
life, helped by cheap domestic help and first-class private medical care and schools. For
the majority of South Africa’s blacks, however, the living is not so easy. Most blacks still
live in shoddy shacks or bungalows without proper sanitation in poor crime-ridden
townships outside the main cities. Their schools and hospitals are often in a dire state. And,
in a country where there is little public transport, most blacks do not own a car. Although it
has the world’s 24th-biggest economy, South Africa ranks a dismal 129th out of 182 on the
UN’s Human Development Index.