【正文】 ekends, Please check the track work section for the latest service alterations on your line. 5. To get more information about ticket pries, travellers had better________. A. go to the City Circle B. visit a website C. check display screen D. listen to announcements 6. What service is offered to travelers in need at most big stations? A. A free Opal card. B. Earlier entry to the station. C. Help from station workers. D. A ticket with a magic stripe. 7. Which is the best convenient time to travel by Sydney Trains? A. At midnight. B. On Sunday afternoon. C. Between midnight and 4:00 . D. At 6:00 . on Wednesday. C. Everyone looks forward to progress, whether in one’s personal life or in the general society. Progress indicates a person’s ability to change the way he is living at the moment. Progress must lead to a better life and a better way of doing things. All these, however, remain true only in so far as people want to accept technology and move forward by finding new and more efficient ways of doing things. However, at the back of the minds of many people, especially those who miss the “good old days”, efficiency es with a price. When munication bees more efficient, people are able to contact one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish .The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or to see each other without even leaving their homes. With the munication gadets, such as mobile phones and ipads, people often do not take the effort to visit one another personally. A personal visit carries with the additional feature of having to be in the person’s presence for as long as the visit lasts. We cannot unnecessarily excuse our selves or turn the other persons off. With efficiency also es mass production. Such is the nature of factories and the success of industrialization today. Factories have improved efficiency. Unskillful tasks are left to machines and products are better made and produced with greater accuracy than any human hand could ever have done. However, with the improvements in efficiency also es the loss of the personal touch when making these products. For example, many handcrafts(手工藝品 ) are now produced in a factory. Although this means that supply is better able to increase demand, now that the supply is quick and efficient, the demand might fall because mass production lowers the quality of the handcraft and it is difficult to find unique designs on each item. Nevertheless, we must not mit the mistake of analyzing progress only from one point of view. In fact, progress has allowed tradition to keep up. It is only with progress and the invention of new technology that many old products can be brought back to their old state. New technology is required for old products to stay old. It is people’s attitude towards progress that causes the type of influence that technology has on society. Technology is flexible. There is no fixed way of making use of it. Everything depends on people’s attitude. The worst effects of progress will fall on those who are unable to rethink their attitudes and views of society. When we accept progress and adapt it to suit our needs, a new “past” is created. 8. According to Paragraph 1, progress can benefit people when they are willing to _______. A. live a better life B. look for better methods C. change ways of living D. accept technology and advance steadily 9. The underlined word “gadgets” is closest in meaning to _______. A. tools B. messages C. barriers D. skills 10. The author explains “efficiency es with a price” by _______. A. describing a process B. using examples C. following time order D. making classification 11. What can be concluded from the last paragraph? A. Progress can suit the needs of daily life. B. People review the past with great regret. C. Technology should be introduced in a fixed way. D. People’s attitude decides the use of technology. D. Among my peers, the most mon reasons to sit in front are: poor vision, poor hearing, and harder to fall asleep (my main reason). That’s about it. I’ve sat in the back and I’ve sat in the front, and I’ve seen no difference in how professors treat me. In fact, I sat in the front of my math class and still fell asleep a lot. I went to office hours for that class regularly and asked the professor if it bothered him and he said he understood pletely. I