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【正文】 I39。m targeting African customers more than whites, says Jabi, who recently opened a jeweller39。s. Look around, they39。re everywhere. White South Africans used to boast that Johannesburg was Continental in flavor. It still is, only now the continent is Africa. With apartheid ended and laws forbidding black Africans to live in town repealed, Joburg has bee blacker, poorer and more dangerous. It is also more vibrant than ever. The city is not declining, it39。s changing, says Lindsay Brmner, a white member of the Greater Johannesburg Metroplitan Council. There are real problems, but perception is our biggest. Plenty of Africans white and black are willing to invest in the new Johannesburg. Large retailers like Woolworth39。s are pumping millions of brands into new, flagship stores. Black and Asian shopkeepers, doctors and lawyers have moved in to replace the whites who have left. City planners hope this blend of wealth and Africanization will make Johannesburg the continent39。s economic and cultural capital. TEXT H First read the question. 27. The primary purpose of the article is to A. introduce Domingo to opera people. B. show Domingo39。s concern for opera goers. C. ment on Doming39。s versatility. D. advertise a new model of Rolex watch. 正確答案是 Now, go through the text quickly and answer the question. Every half century or so , a leader emerges in his field of such substance and force that he stands out head and shoulder above the rest and the best. Even to people who have never graced the great opera houses of the world, the name and the voice of Placide Domingo are justifiably hailed. But for those who will queue all night to share the sheer color of this man39。s singing, he is a legend. A legend which can be heard from Hamburg to Paris, from Milan to New York. But Placido is not simply the world39。s greatest tenor。 rather a plete musician who are possesses a marvellous voice. At rehearsals, his mastery of the piano enables him to sit and play through the score。 thinking of the emotions that words and music are attempting to municate. His experience as a conductor gives him objectivity, not only about his own interpretation of the part, but also on the total performance. To understand the part, he says, one must first musically and dramatically understand the whole. I was lucky to have been given the talents to do this. Placido Domingo also has an extremely good understanding of the watch he choose to wear. A Rolex Oyster GMTMaster in 18ct. gold. This watch is perfect for me, he says, because it simultaneously tells me the time in two different countries which is extremely useful considering the amount of travelling I have to do. And opera people all over the world are pleased too, because now I don39。t get them out of bed when I ring them. And, unlike me, this watch never needs a rest. You could say it39。s my favourite instrument. For the plete musician. The plete watch. By Rolex of Geneva. TEXT I First read the question. 28. The theme of the book by Maric Winn is presumably A. child abuse. B. family relationship. C. loss of childhood innocence. D. teenage rebellion. 正確答案是 Now, go through the text quickly and answer the question. Each new crop of adolescents always seems unfathomable to its predecessors. But when journalist Marie Winn began to study today39。s youngsters, she discovered something far more fundamental and disturbing than just another teenage rebellion. In the short space of the past decade, she ments in her recent book Children without Childhood, that many middleclass American childrenn not highschoolers, but kids between the ages of about 6 and 12 have been robbed of their most precious birthright childhood itself. Willynilly, the typical fifth grader, one blissfully ignorant of adult matters, is now aware not just of sex and violence, but also of injustice, fear of death, adult frailty and cruelty, political corruption and economic instability. What explains this sudden loss of innocence? One potent influence was the sexual revolution of the 39。60s. The new sexual awareness of that decade exposed adults and children alike to an endless parade of erotic possibilities. Another factor is the children into intimate contact with their parents39。 selfabsorption, vulnerability and quite often, new sexual liaisions. Perhaps the most interesting explanation here for the altered nature of childhood is the sweeping change that occurred during the 1970s in the economic and social status of women. As hordes of them left home for the workplace and shed their own protected position as childwives, according to Winn, the effect of child rearing was cataclysmic. In practical terms, kids were left with far less supervision. But something much more basic happened as well. Newly emancipated women began to feel that it was no longer fair to demand submission and deference from their offspring or to deny them full access to information about life39。s confusing realities. Such treatment was well intentioned. But, as Winn documents, newera child rearing in which the child is enlisted as an equal partner in his own upbringing has turned out to be a disaster. Children do not prosper when treated as adults. Instead, what they require to acplish their important tasks of learning and exploration and play is the security of dependency, of their inherent inequality. While the social forces that have transformed family life are probably irreversible, some measures, Winn suggests, can be taken to keep children from learning too much too soon. Couples who are bent primarily on selffulfilment or highpowered careers would do well to think twice about producing offspring at all. Those who do bee parents should be willing to take an au