【正文】 ied to mere sworn enemies. For all that, some of our most tenacious black belt quarrellers have e to it late in lie and mastered every throw, from the Grushing Silence to the Gloating Apology, in less than ten years of marriage. A quarrel may last years among brooding types with time on their hands, like writers, half a lifetime is not unmon. In its most refined form, a quarrel may consist of the participant。 the craft must be learned. There are two generally recognised apprenticeships. First, and universally preferred, is a long childhood spent in the pany of fractious siblings. After several years of rainy afternoons, brothers and sister develop a sure feel for the tactics of attrition and the niceties of strategy so necessary in firstrate quarrelling. The only child, or the child of peaceful or repressed households, is likely to grow up failing to understand that quarrels, unlike arguments, are not about anything, least of all the pursuit of truth. The apparent subject of a quarrel is a mere pretext。s sales e from individuals keen to anise themselves electronically. Most use the machine as a “ personal data base” (., address book and diary) or to crunch numbers too tough for their calculators to handle. It takes several times longer to tap a name or a date into the tiny keyboard of a handheld puter than it does to write it down on an Asprey pad. But hundreds of thousands of people seem to think it worthwhile— maybe because the puter can search speedily through electronically stored names— or because it impresses their friends. Whatever the reasons, other panies are impressed with the market the Psion Organiser Ⅱ has discovered. Japan39。 attitude to the schoolboy? A. Guilty B. Awful. C. Satisfied. D. Annoyed 12. According to the passage, which of the following is the most popular job for boys? A. Babysitting. B. Working in cafes. C. Paper rounds. D. Working in shops. 13. It can be concluded from the passage that local authorities and teachers frowned on children working parttime because_________. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 8 頁 共 12 頁 A. it was socially unacceptable B. nearly one in two of the big spenders got a poor mark C. teenagers had spent too much money on records D. money cannot buy happiness and progress 14. How did the writer earn extra money when he was a teenager? A. Selling sandalwood. B. Working in shops. C. Working in cafes. D. Delivering groceries. 15. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. Children may get satisfaction from working parttime. B. School teenagers usually spend ￡ 10 a week on records. C. A good 24 hours a week out of school is the right amount of time for kids. D. School girls often work in shops and cafes. Questions 16～ 20 In the mid198039。s enterprise. Back in the days of the Saturday penny. I was something of an entrepreneur myself. I had five paper rounds, a firewood business, a golfcaddying concession and a contract to carry groceries back to the convent for a bunch of local nuns. I was working a good twentyfour hours a week out of school, and as the saying goes, it never did me any harm. Indeed I39。t had another job before you join the police, you tend to think nothing but police.” Crime in the country, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? The things which John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the surrounding forests. There are natural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a lookpost. 6. Why was John Pooley able to solve the Case of the Thorpeness Burglary so easily? A. He had been given a full description of the criminal. B. He knew everything that happened in the area. C. There were few crime cases in his area. D. There was only one possible suspect. 7. From the passage it appears that nowadays a village policeman, like John Pooley, has to _______. A. live in a village police house B. put out forest fires C. go through a long period of training D. look after more people than policemen elsewhere 8. According to the passage, we learn that he________. A. is unpopular with the people in the villages B. objects when he is given work outside his own area C. prefers working in the villages of Middleton, Dunwich and Westleton D. feels unhappy when he arrests anybody. 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 7 頁 共 12 頁 9. John Pooley thinks he is well qualified for his job because_________. A. he had other jobs before he became a policeman B. has has been a policeman for fifteen years C. he has lived in Westleton all his life D. he is a countryman at heart 10. Crime in this area is different from crime in a big city because_________. A. it is hardly ever violent B. people here have more family problems C. the victim is easily attacked D. it is connected with natural disasters Questions 11～ 15 Another dropped stitch in life39。s most famous men and women. C. Train pupils to live and stay at public schools. D. Enroll pupils who are not admitted by public schools. 30. A. Overseas B. Cities C. Suburban areas D. Upper classes Part C: Listening and Translation Ⅰ . Sentence Translation Directions: In this part of th