【正文】 about tomorrow D. Are you OK 43. Receptionist: Front desk. Can I help you? Hotel guest: This is Mr. Burton in 1205. ______? Receptionist: Of course. What time? A. Where is your caf233。ve heard a lot about you 42. Secretary: Good morning, Dr. Porter39。t seen for ages C. It39。s good to see you again! Wele home. Give me a hug. Speaker B: Thanks! ______ , too, and it39。 being late is rude. Germans believe people should be (36) on time, neither too early, nor too late. Tothe Indonesian, time is an endless pool。d like to wish all students the very best luck in your exams and with your dissertations. For those of you who will be leaving us this summer, I hope that you will take with you fond memories of Birmingham and that you keep in touch. If you are staying in Birmingham over the summer, do try to e along to our summer garden party on 18 June. Spouses and children are very wele to join us too. Summer Garden Party Wednesday 18, June 2020 From 2 p. m.— 5 p. m. Celebrate the end of exams and the end of term with a summer garden party in the beautiful grounds of Westmere on Edgbaston Park Road. All international students, their spouses and children are wele to join us. We39。s the only kind of popularity that really counts. 21. The main purpose of this passage is to tell ______. A. readers how to be popular with people around B. teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves C. parents how to control and guide their children D. people how to understand and respect each other 22. According to the author, many teenagers think they are brave enough to be themselves, but, in fact, most of them ______. A. have much difficulty understanding each other B. lack confidence C. dare not cope with problems singlehanded D. are very much afraid of getting lost 23. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? A. There is no popularity that really counts. B. What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths. C. It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree wit his or her classmates. D. Most teenagers are not actually rebelling. 24. The author thinks of advertisements as ______. A. original B. influential C. detrimental D. authoritative 25. During the teenager years, one should learn to ______. A. differ from others in as many ways as possible B. get into the right season and bee popular C. find one39。s hands for courage. They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up just by listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in this way is that the crowd is doing it. It has bee harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today39。t think tobacco can do harm to people39。t know the relationship between tobacco and disease B. they have a strong inclination to smoke C. they have been forbidden to smoke by the governments D. there were no institutions which persuade them not to smoke 17. Many governments didn39。s ludicrous (荒唐的 ) for them to deny that a cartoon character like Joe Camel isn39。t have to be a brain surgeon to figure out what39。 Malawi, percent. Into this climate of naivety and neglect, American tobacco panies have unleashed not only the marketing wizardry (魔術(shù) ) that most of us take for granted, but other tactics they wouldn39。t have effective antismoking campaigns, many of their people are surprisingly innocent of the link between tobacco and disease. In Manila, we even found cigarettes sold at a snack bar operated by the local Boy Scouts. Many governments, moreover, are reluctant to wage antismoking wars because they39。s will including chemistry, physics, medicine, literature, and international peace. The prizes are administrated by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm. In 1969, a prize for economics endowed by the Central Bank of Sweden was added. Candidates for the prizes must be nominated in writing by qualified authority in the field of petition. Recipients are selected by their respective institutions. The prizes are usually presented in Stockholm on December 10, with the King of Sweden officiating, an appropriate tribute to Alfred Nobel on the anniversary of his death. Each one includes a gold medal, a diploma, and a cash award of about a million dollars. 11. What does this passage mainly dis