【正文】 ir English is condemned by others, they are supremely indifferent to the fact. The Mrs. Mops of this world have active and efficient tongues in their heads, and if we happened not to like their ways of saying things, well, we can lump it. That is their attitude. Curiously enough, writers are inclined to represent the speech of both these extreme parties with in39。, mate. In between, according to this view we have a far less fortunate group, the anxious. These actively try to suppress what they believe to be bad English and assiduously cultivate what they hope to be good English. They live their lives in some degree of nervousness over their grammar, their pronunciation, and their choice of words: sensitive, and fearful of betraying themselves. Keeping up with the Joneses is measured not only in houses, furniture, refrigerators, cars, and clothes, but also in speech. And the misfortune of the anxious does not end with their inner anxiety. Their lot is also the open or veiled contempt of the assured on the side of them and of the indifferent on the other. It is all too easy to raise an unworthy laugh at the anxious. The people thus unfortably stilted on linguistic high heels so often form part of what is, in many ways, the most admirable section of any society: the ambitious, tense, innerdriven people, who are bent on going places and doing things. The greater the pity, then, if a disproportionate amount of their energy goes into what Mr. Sharpless called this shabby obsession with variant forms of English especially if the result is (as so often) merely to sound affected and ridiculous. Here, according to Bacon, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter ... It seems to me that Pygmalion39。s soldiers. His arrogance in not allowing BBC editors to see his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment. His defenders said he could not help living with the 1930s values he had acquired and somewhat dubiously went on to cite gallantry as chief among them. Cooke39。s panion! He thought of the hobbling wretches whom he had seen carrying cans and bottles to be filled by the barman. Just God, what an end! Evidently she had been unfit to live, without any strength of purpose, an easy prey to habits, one of the wrecks on which civilization had been reared. But that she could have sunk so slow! Was it possible he had deceived himself so utterly about her? He remembered her outburst of that night and interpreted it in a harsher sense than he had ever done. He had no difficulty now in approving of the course he had taken. As the light failed and his memory began to wander he thought her hand touched his. The shock which had first attacked his stomach was now attacking his nerves. He put on his overcoat and hat quickly and went out. The cold air met him on the threshold。s what I did. My basic advice is simple and heartfelt. Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn. It39。t finish college, but we discourage dropping out. College isn39。s a real mistake not to take opportunity to learn a huge range of subjects. to learn to work with people in high school, and to get the grades that will help you get into a good college. TEXT F First read the questions. 52. The passage focuses on ____. A. the history and future of London B. London39。s appropriate to think about specialization. Getting real expertise in an area of interest can lead to success. Graduate school is one way to get specialized knowledge. Choosing a specialty isn39。t know any high school dropouts, let alone any successful ones. In my pany39。s opportunity of a lifetime B. the success of the puter industry C. the importance of education D. high school education in the US 正確答案是 Now go though Text E quickly to answer question 51. Hundreds of students send me each year asking for advice about education. They want to know what to study, or whether it39。s life and career in a slightly ____ tone. A. ironic B. detached C. scathing D. indifferent 正確答案是 TEXT D Mr. Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening landscape. The river lay quiet beside the empty distillery and from time to time a light appeared in some house on Lucan Road. What an end! The whole narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. The cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a monplace vulgar death attacked his stomach. Not merely had she degraded herself。s dream. Cooke liked the sound of his first wife39。re goin39。t feel bad for taking what you have entitled to, you are as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one。s a nation of tireless planners. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general. Such a nation of overachievers a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, Denmark is one of the world39。 ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN.) Directions: The following passage contains ten errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way: For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a ^ sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash / and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line. 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