【正文】 h 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 fondness of America25. The following adjectives can be suitably applied to Cooke EXCEPT ___.A) oldfashioned B) sincere C) arrogant D) popular26. The writer ments on Cooke39。s broadcasting style　　C) Cooke39。s raconteur style encouraged a whole generation of BBC men to think of themselves as more important than the story. His treacly tones were the mo del for the regular World Service reports From Our Own Correspondent, known as FOOCs in the business. They may yet be his epitaph.24. At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of ___.　　A) Cooke39。s name almost as much as he admired her good looks. But he found bringing up baby difficult and left her for the wife of his landlord. Women listeners were unimpressed when, in 1996, he declared on air that the fact that 4% of women in the American armed forces were raped showed remarkable selfrestraint on the part of Uncle Sam39。 instead he is an impressionist39。t noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Blackpool grammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadcaster extraordinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago.If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them. But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941 just when his country needed all the wartime help it could getis hardly a matter for congratulation.Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America, entrancing listeners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 many devoted adherents. Part of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world midatlantic, the language of the disc jockey and public relations man.He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belonged to neither. Cooke39。 racin’, mate.In between, according to this view, we have a far less fortunate group, the anxious. These actively try to suppress what they believe to be bad English and assiduously cultivate what they hope to be good English. They live their lives in some degree of nervousness over their grammar, their pronunciation, and their choice of words: sensitive, and fearful of betraying themselves. Keeping up with the Joneses is measured not only in houses, furniture, refrigerators, cars, and clothes, but also in speech.And the misfortune of the anxious does not end with their inner anxiety. Their lot is also the open or veiled contempt of the assured on one side of them and of the indifferent on the other.It is all too easy to raise an unworthy laugh at the anxious. The people thus unfortably stilted on linguistic high heels so often form part of what is, in many ways, the most admirable section of any society: the ambitious, tense, innerdriven people, who are bent on going places and doing things. The greater the pity, then, if a disproportionate amount of their energy goes into what Mr. Sharpless called this shabby obsession with variant forms of English especially if the net result is(as so often)merely to sound affected and ridiculous. “Here, according to Bacon, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter …. It seems to me that Pygmalion’s frenzy is a good emblem …of this vanity: for words axe but the images of matter。 on the other, we39。 huntin39。 for ing. On the one hand, we39。 and the orderliness of the system makes it possible for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.16. The author thinks that Danes adopt a ___ attitude towards their country.　　A) boastful B) modest C) deprecating D) mysterious17. Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage?  A) Fondness of foreign culture. B) Equality in society.C) Linguistic tolerance. D) Persistent planning.18. The author39。re entitled to, you39。t mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitter family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society c an not exempt its members from the hazards of life.But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by virtue of citizenship, and you shouldn39。s how they see Swedes and Germans. Danes see themselves as jazzy people, improvisers, more free spirited than Swedes, but the truth is (though one should not say it) that Danes are very much like Germans and Swedes. Orderliness is a main selling point. Denmark has few natural resources, limited manufacturing capability。s not a car in sight. However, Danes don39。s heart lifts at any sighting of Danish sleaze: skinhead graffiti on buildings (Foreigner s Out of Denmark! ), broken beer bottles in the gutters, drunken teenagers slumped in the park. Nonetheless, it is an orderly land. You drive through a Danish town, it es to an end at a stone wall, and on the other side is a field of barley, a nice clean line: town here, country there. It is not a nation of jaywalkers. People stand on the curb and wait for the red light to change, even if it39。s a nation of tireless planner. Trains run on time. Things operate well in general.Such a nation of overachievers a brochure from the Ministry of Business and Industry says, Denmark is one of the world39。re supposed to figure this out for yourself.It is the land of the silk safety net, where almost half the national budget goes toward smoothing out life39。 ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.Part Ⅲ READING