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Part I Reading Comprehension 30% ( ( ( (3 marks for each answer ) ) ) )
Passage One
A World We Have Not Known
By Henry A. Kissinger
To suggest that a newly elected administration raise its sights to the kind of world the
next millennium will bring may appear as a rude interruption to the near-blissful
tranquility that tends to settle in after our national elections. Events, however, develop
their own mometurn, which, if not mastered, becomes increasingly difficult to manage.
This is a particular challenge for inherently lame-duck second-term administrations,
which are always in danger of losing the capacity for implementing long-range decisions
well before the end of their tenure. The key choices must be made early in the
administration, especially since the period of international calm that characterized the
first Clinton term is dawing to a close.
Never before have so many structural changes in the international system occurred
simultaneously. Some elements are now global---for example, economics and
communications---while politics remains confined to the nation-state or is reduced to
ethnic units. To make a long-term difference, the re-elected Clinton administration must
envision the world it seeks to achieve. Only in that way will it he able to establish criteria
for judging where it is heading
Let me focus on three areas likely to present the greatest challenges in the next century:
Asia, the Persian Gulf, and the transatlantic region encompassing the NATO countries
and the territory of the former Soviet bloc.
In Asia, China will emerge as an incipient superpower. When it reaches the per capita
income of South Korea (about a third of ours), its GNP will be double that of the United
States. Such an economic colossus is bound to have a major impact. China's vast market,