【正文】 hanged. Says EmmanuelJones. You can produce the best food in the world, but if you dont know how to market it, you are wasting your time. We are helping the traditionalists to move on. The emergence of the new class of superpeasants reflects some old yearnings. If the British were the first nation to industrialize, they were also the first to head back to the land. There is this romantic image of the countryside that is particularly English, says Alun Howkins of the University of Sussex, who reckons the population of rural England has been rising since 1911. Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100,000 a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as agricultural ines tumble. About 40 percent of all farmland is now sold to lifestyle buyers rather than the 壹壹英語收集與整理 dwindling number of traditional farmers, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Whats new about the latest returnees is their affluence and zeal for the business of producing quality foods, if only at a microlevel. A healthy economy and surging London house prices have helped to ease the escape of the wouldbe rustics. The media recognize and feed the fantasy. One of the big TV hits of recent years, the River Cottage series, chronicled the attempts of a London chef to run his own Dorset farm. Naturally, the newers cant hope to match their City salaries, but many are happy to trade any loss of ine for the extra job satisfaction. Who cares if theres no sixfigure annual bonus when the land offers other incalculable pensations? Besides, the specialist producers can at least depend on a burgeoning market for their products. Todays ecoaware generation loves to seek out authentic ingredients. People like me may be making a difference in a small way, Jan McCourt, a oime investment banker now running his own 40hectare spread in the English Midlands stocked with rare see signs of farreaching change: Britain isnt catching up with mainland Europe。 its leading the way. “Unlike most other countries, where artisanal food production is being eroded, here it is being recovered, says food writer Matthew Fort. “It may be the mark of the next stage of civilization that we rediscover the desirability of being a peasant.” And not an investment banker. 16. Which of the following details of Wilfred EmmanuelJones is INCORRECT? A. He was born and brought up in Birmingham. B. He used to work in the television industry. C. He is wealthy, adventurous and aspiring. D. He is now selling his own quality foods. 17. Most importantly, people like Wilfred have brought to traditional British farming A. knowledge of farming. B. knowledge of brand names. C. knowledge of lifestyle. D. knowledge of marketing, 18. Which of the following does NOT contribute to the emergence of a new class of farmers? A. Strong desire for country life. B. Longing for greater wealth, C. Influence of TV productions. D. Enthusiasm for quality food business. 19. What is seen as their additional source of new ine? A. Modern tendency to buy natural foods. B. Increase in the value of land property. C. Raising and selling rare live stock. V D. Publicity as a result of media coverage. 20. The sentence in the last paragraph “...Britain isnt catching up with mainland Europe。 TEXT A At the age of 16, Lee Hyuk Joons life is a living hell. The South Korean 10th grader gets up at 6 in the morning to go to school, and studies most of the day until returning home at 6 . After dinner, its time to hit the books again—at one of Seouls many socalled cram schools. Lee gets back home at 1 in the morning, sleeps less than five hours, then repeats the routine—five days a 壹壹英語收集與整理 week. Its a grueling schedule, but Lee worries that it may not be good enough to get him into a top university. Some of his classmates study even harder. South Koreas education system has long been highly petitive. But for Lee and the other 700,000 highschool sophomores in the country, highschool studies have gotten even more intense. Thats because South Korea has conceived a new collegeentrance system, which will be implemented in 2022. This years 10th graders will be the first group evaluated by the new admissions standard, which places more emphasis on grades in the three years of high school and less on nationwide SATstyle and other selection tests, which have traditionally determined which students go to the elite colleges. The change was made mostly to reduce what the government says is a growing education gap in the country: wealthy students go to the best colleges and get the best jobs, keeping the children of poorer families on the social margins. The aim is to reduce the importance o