【正文】 high schools. Theyve asked for more discretion in picking students by giving more weight to such screening tools as essay writing or interviews. President Roh Moo Hyun doesnt like how some colleges are trying to circumvent the new system. He recently criticized greedy universities that focus more on finding the best students than faying to nurture good students. But amid the crossfire between the government and universities, the countrys 10th graders are feeling the stress. On online protest sites, some are calling themselves a “cursed generation” and “mice in a lab experiment”. It all seems a touch melodramatic, but thats the South Korean school system. 11. According to the passage, the new collegeentrance system is designed to A. require students to sit for more collegeentrance tests. 壹壹英語收集與整理 B. reduce the weight of collegeentrance tests. C. select students on their high school grades only. D. reduce the number of prospective college applicants. 12. What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system? A. The system has given equal opportunities to students. B. The system has reduced the number of cram schools. C. The system has intensified petition among schools. D. The system has increased students study load. 13. According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result of A. the governments egalitarian policy. B. insufficient number of schools: C. curriculums of average quality. D. low cost of private education. 14. According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system between the following groups EXCEPT A. between universities and the government. B. between school experts and the government. C. between parents and schools. D. between parents and the government. 15. Which of the following adjectives best describes the authors treatment of the topic? A. Objective. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Biased. TEXT B Wilfred EmmanuelJones was a teenager before he saw his first cow in his first field. Born in Jamaica, the 47yearold grew up in innercity Birmingham before making a career as a television producer and launching his own marketing agency. But deep down he always nurtured every true Englishmans dream of a rustic life, a dream that his entrepreneurial wealth has allowed him to satisfy. These days hes the owner of a thriving 12hectare farm in deepest Devon with cattle, sheep and pigs. His latest business venture: pushing his brand of Black Fanner gourmet sausages and barbecue sauces. “My background may be very urban,” says EmmanuelJones. “But it has given me a good idea of what other urbanites want.” And of how to sell it. EmmanuelJones joins a herd of wealthy fugitives from city life who are bringing a new mercial knowhow to British farming. Britains burgeoning farmers markets numbers have doubled to at least 500 in the last five years—swarm with specialty cheesemakers, beekeepers or anic smallholders who are redeploying the business skills they learned in the city. Everyone in the rural munity has to e to terms with the fact that things have changed. Says EmmanuelJones. You can produce the best food in the world, but if you dont know how to market it, you are wasting your time. We are helping the traditionalists to move on. The emergence of the new class of superpeasants reflects some old yearnings. If the British were the first nation to industrialize, they were also the first to head back to the land. There is this romantic image of the countryside that is particularly English, says Alun Howkins of the University of Sussex, who reckons the population of rural England has been rising since 1911. Migration into rural areas is now running at about 100,000 a year, and the hunger for a taste of the rural life has kept land prices buoyant even as agricultural ines tumble. About 40 percent of all farmland is now sold to lifestyle buyers rather than the 壹壹英語收集與整理 dwindling number of traditional farmers, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Whats new about the latest returnees is their affluence and zeal for the business of producing quality foods, if only at a microlevel. A healthy economy and surging London house prices have helped to ease the escape of the wouldbe rustics. The media recognize and feed the fantasy. One of the big TV hits of recent years, the River Cottage series, chronicled the attempts of a London chef to run his own Dorset farm. Naturally, the newers cant hope to match their City salaries, but many are happy to trade any loss of ine for the extra job satisfaction. Who cares if theres no sixfigure annual bonus when the land offers other incalculable pensations?