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 Pleasewriteall theanswersonthe answersheets. Time Limit:3hours I.Reading Comprehension This section contains twopassages.Read each passageand then answer the questions given at the end of it.Your answers must be in English. Passage One Critics and supporters of the United Nations have sometimes seemed worlds apart.But since last year, almost all of them, whether multilateralist or unilateralist, American or European, have cometoagreethattheorganization is incrisis.This week,ablue.ribbonpanelcommissionedby the bodys secretary-general.Kofi Annan, released its report on what to do about it. The UNs sorry state became most obvious with the Irag war.Those favoring the war were furious that after a decade of Security Council resolutions, including the last-chance Resolution 1441 threatening“serious consequencesif Iraqdid notprove its disarmament,the UN could not agree to act.Anti-war types were just as frustrated that the world body failed to stop the war.But Iraq was not the UNs only problem.It has done little to stop humanitarian disasters, such as the ongoing horror in Sudan.And it has done nothing to stop Irans and North Koreas pursuit of nuclearweapons. Recognizing the danger of irrelevance. Mr. Annan last year told a 16-member panel, composed mainly of former government ministers and heads of government, to suggest changes.These fall broadly into two categories: the institutional and the cultural.The former has