【正文】 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 o 。 it crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the pu blic house at Chapel Bridge he went in and ordered a hot punch. The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six workingmen in the shop discussing the value of a gentleman?s e state in County Kildare. They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers, and smoked, 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 o r 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 swish ing 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 s he had ceased to exist, that she had bee a memory. He began to feel ill at ea se. 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 s he was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night afte r night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ce ased to exist, became a memoryif anyone remembered him. 27. Mr Duffy?s immediate reaction to the report of the woman?s death wa s that of ___. A. disgust B. guilt C. grief D. passion 28. It can be inferred from the passage that the reporter wrote about the woman?s death in a ___ A. detailed B. provocative C. discreet 29. We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr Duffy was in a(n) ___ mood. A. angry B. fretful C. irritable A. M C. The woman wanted to end the relationship. D. They became estranged probably after a quarrel.