【正文】 ed up level with the rear wheels of the Diesel, the oily smoke from its exhaust in his eyes and nostrils.Bond39。s voice.‘I am going to slow down behind this lorry. Take your shoes and socks off and climb out on to the bonnet and when I e up behind the lorry jump on to it. I shall be going at walkingpace. It will be safe. Cut the ropes that hold the rolls of paper. The left ones first. Then the right. I shall have pulled up level with the lorry and when you have cut the second lot jump into the car. Be careful you are not swept off with the paper.’Drax dowsed his headlights and swept round the bend at eighty. The lorry was twenty yards ahead and Drax had to brake hard to avoid crashing into its tail. The Mercedes executed a dry skid until its radiator was almost underneath the platform of the carrier.Drax changed down to second.39。s hand. One didn39。 the Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture is the LDOCE plus cultural information. The key fact is that all three dictionaries can be seen to have a distinctly “cultural” as well as language learning content. That being said, the way in which they approach the cultural element is not identical, making direct parisons between the three dictionaries. While there is some mon ground between the encyclopedic/cultural entries for the Oxford and Longman dictionaries, there is a clear difference. Oxford lays claim to being encyclopedic on content whereas Longman distinctly concentrates on the language and culture of the Englishspeaking world. The Oxford dictionary can therefore stand more vigorous scrutiny for cultural bias than the Longman publication because the latter does not hesitate about viewing the rest of the world from the cultural perspectives of the Englishspeaking world. The cultural objectives of the BBC dictionary are in turn more distinct still. Based on an analysis of over 70 million words recorded from the BBC World Service and National Public Radio of Washington over a period of four years, their 1,000 brief encyclopedic entries are based on people and places that have featured in the news recently. The intended user they have in mind is a regular listener to the World Service who will have a reasonable standard of English and a developed skill in listening prehension. In reality, though, the BBC dictionary will be purchased by a far wider range of language learners, as will the other two dictionaries. We will be faced with a situation where many of the users of these dictionaries will at the very least have distinct sociocultural perspectives and may have world views which are totally opposed and even hostile to those of the West. Advanced learners from this kind of background will not only evaluate a dictionary on how userfriendly it is but will also have definite views about the scope and appropriateness of the various sociocultural entries.6. What feature sets apart the three dictionaries discussed in the passage from traditional ones?a. The bination of two dictionaries into one.b. The new approach to defining words.c. The inclusion of cultural content.d. The increase in the number of entries.7. The Longman dictionary is more likely to be criticized for cultural prejudice because ______.a. its scope of cultural entries goes beyond the culture of the Englishspeaking world.b. it pays little attention to the cultural content of the nonEnglishspeaking countries.c. it views the world purely from the standpoint of the Englishspeaking people.d. it fails to distinguish language from culture in its encyclopedic entries8. The BBC dictionary differs from Oxford and Longman in that ______.a. it has a wider selection of encyclopedic entriesb. it is mainly designed to meet the needs of radio listenersc. it lays more emphasis on language than on cultured. it is intended to help listeners develop their listening prehension skills9. It is implied in the last paragraph that, in approaching sociocultural content in a dictionary, special thought should be given to ______.a. the language levels of its usersb. the number of its prospective purchasersc. the different tastes of its usersd. the various cultural backgrounds of its users10. What is the passage mainly about?a. Different ways of treating sociocultural elements in the three new English dictionaries.b. A parison of people’s opinions on the cultural content in the three new English dictionaries.c. The advantages of the BBC dictionary over Oxford and Longman.d. The userfriendliness of the three new English dictionaries.Passage 3 1115ACDAB 1620 BBACABond reached under the dashboard and from its concealed holster drew out the longbarrelled .45 Colt Army Special and laid it on the seat beside him. The battle was how in the open and somehow the Mercedes must be stopped.Using the road as if it was Donington, Bond rammed his foot down and kept it there. Gradually, with the needle twitching either side of the hundred mark he began to narrow the gap.Drax took the lefthand fork at Charing and hissed up the long hill. Ahead, in the giant beam of his headlights, one of Bowaters’ huge eightwheeled AEC Diesel carriers was just grinding into the first bend of the hairpin, labouring under the fourteen tons of newsprint it was taking on a night run to one of the East Kent newspapers.Drax cursed under his breath as he saw the long carrier with the twenty gigantic rolls, each containing five miles of newsprint, roped to its platform. Right in the middle of the tricky Sbend at the top of the hill.He looked in the driving mirror and saw the Bentley ing into the fork.And then Drax had his idea.‘Krebs,’ the word was a pistol shot. ‘Get out your knife.39。 they have affected musiccultures all over the globe.1. Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because ______.a. it helps produce new cultural tools and technologyb. it can reflect the development