【正文】 you the best ch ance to learn broadlymath, history, various sciencesand to do projects with ot her kids that teach you firsthand about group dynamics. It?s fine to take a dee p interest in puters, dance, language or any other discipline, but not if it j eopardizes breadth. In college it?s appropriate to think about specialization. Getting real e x pertise in an area of interest can lead to success. Graduate school is one way t o get specialized knowledge. Choosing a specialty isn?t something high school s t udents should worry about. They should worry about getting a strong academic sta rt. There?s not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high school and su c cess in later life, of course. But it?s a real mistake not to take the opportun i ty to learn a huge range of subjects, to learn to work with people in high schoo l, and to get the grades that will help you get into a good college. TEXT F First read the following question. B. London?s manufacturing skills D. the p What is London for? To put the question another way, why was London, by 190 0, inparably the largest city in the world, which it remained until the bomba rdments of the Luftwaffe? There could be many answers to this question, but any history of London will rehearse three broad explanations. One is the importance of its life as a port. When the Thames turned to ice in February 1855,50,000 men were put out of work, and there were bread riots from those whose liveliboods h ad been frozen with the river. Today, the Thames could be frozen for a year with out endangering the livelihoods of any but a few pleasureboatmen. The second major cause of London?s wealth and success was that it was easi l y the biggest manufacturing centre in Europe. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, Dutch looms and the stocking knitting frame were first pioneered in London. The vast range of London?s manufacturing skills is another fact。 almos t any item you can name was manufactured in London during the days of its prosper ity. In 1851, percent of the manufacturing workforce of Great Britain was based in London. By 1961, this had dramatically reduced. By 1993, there were a mere 328,000 Londoners engaged in manufacturing. In other words, by our own time s, two of the chief reasons for London?s very existenceits life as a pert and as a centre of manufacturehad dwindled out of existence. London?s third great function, since the seventeenth century, has been tha t of national and international bourse: the exchange of stocks and shares, bankin g, merce and, increasingly, insurance. Both In wood and Francis Sheppard, in London: A history, manage to make these potentially dry matters vivid to the gen eral reader, and both authors assure us that “The City” in the financial sense i s still as important as ever it was. Both, however, record the diminution of the City as an architectural and demographic entity, with the emptying of many city offices (since the advent of the puter much of the work can be done anywhere ) and the removal of many distinctive landmarks. TEXT G 33. The primary purpose of the passage is to C. pare the publisher with the editor Since the advent of television people have been prophesying the death of the book. Now the rise of the World Wide Web seems to have revived this smolderi ng controversy from the ashes. The very existence of paper copy has been brought into question once more. ght be the bookstore, rather than the book itself, that is on the br ink of extinction. Many of you will have noted tom of bookseller websites poppin g up. They provide lists of books and let you read sample chapters, reviews from other customers and interviews with authors. What does all this mean? Browsing a virtual bookstore may not afford you the same dusty pleasure as browsing round a real shop, but as far as service, pr ice and convenience are concerned there is really no petition. This may chang e before long, as publishers? websites begin to offer direct access to new publ ications. Perhaps it is actually the publisher who is endangered by the relentless advance of the Inter. There are a remarkable number of sites republishing tex ts onlinean extensive virtual library of materials that used to be handled pri marily by publishing panies. From the profusion of electronictext sites available, it looks as if thi s virtual library is here to stay unless a proposed revision to copyright law ta kes many publications out of the public domain. However, can electronic texts st ill be considered books? Then again, it might be the editor at risk, in danger of being cut out of the publishing process. The Web not only makes it possible for just about anyon e to publish whatever they like whenever they likethere are virtually no costs involved. The editors would then be the millions of Inter users. And there is little censor ship, either. So possibly it is the printed page, with its many limitations, that is pe rishing as the implications of new technologies begin to be fully realized. Last year Stanford University published the equivalent of a 6,000 page Business Engl ish dictionary, online. There seem to be quite obvious benefits to housing these multivolume reference sets on the Web. The perceived benefits for other books, such as the novel, are perhaps less obvious. TEXT H 34. The reviewer?s attitude towards the book A. ambiguous B. objective C. doubtful Now go through TEXT H quickly and answer question 34. The 1990s have witnessed a striking revival of the idea that liberal democr atic political system are the best basis for international peace. Western states men and scholars have witnessed worldwide process of democratization, and tend t