【正文】 s status as a financial center D. the past and present roles of London 正確答案是 Now go through TEXT F quickly to answer question 52. What is London for? To put the question another way why was London, by 1900, inparably the largest city in the world, which it remained until the bombardments 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 1885, 50,000 men were put out of work, and there were bread riots from th。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。m grateful that they did. One parent wrote me that her 15year old son lost himself in the hole of the puter. He got an A in Web site design, but other grades were sinking, she said. This boy is making a mistake. High school and college offer you the best chance to learn broadly math, history, various sciences and to do projects with other kids that teach you firsthand about group dynamics. It39。t automatically foster learning. You want to learn with other people, ask questions, try out ideas and have a way to test your ability. It usually takes more than just a book. Education should be broad, although it39。t finish college, but we discourage dropping out. College isn39。t know any high school dropouts, let alone any successful ones. In my pany39。t finish college, but I39。d love to have the time to go back. As I39。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。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 death was that of ____. A. disgust B. guilt C. grief D. passion 正確答案是 48. It can be inferred from the passage that the reporter wrote about the woman39。s estate in County Kildare. They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers, and smoke, spitting often on the floor and sometimes dragging the sawdust over their heavy boots. Mr. Duffy sat on his stool and gazed at them, without seeing or hearing them. After a while they went out and he called for another punch. He sat a long time over it. The shop was very quiet. The proprietor sprawled on the counter reading the newspaper and yawning. Now and again a tram was heard swishing along the lonely road outside. As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images on which he now conceived her, he realized that she was dead, that she had ceased to exist, that she had bee a memory. He began to feel ill at ease. He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame? Now that she was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night after night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory if anyone remembered him. 47. Mr. Duffy39。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 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 American citizenship D. Cooke39。s obscure origins B. Cooke39。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 dream. Cooke liked the sound of his first wife39。s world is an America that exists largely in the imagination. He took ages to acknowledge the disaster that was Vietnam and even longer to wake up to Watergate. His politics have drifted to the right with age, and most of his opinions h