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The most welcome sight on a cold, wet winter night in London is the familiar shape of a

London taxi cab approaching with its yellow

“for hire” sign shining brightly. That shows it is

ready to pick you up. Travelling by taxi in London is not just a way of going from one place

to another. It is an experience to be enjoyed and remembered.

The main reason for this is the drivers, who are called

Cockneys.

This

means

they

were

born

in

the heart

of

London

and

speak

their own

special

dialect

（方言）

of of them know every street and famous building in the city, and

all

of

them

love

to

talk.

A

simple

twenty-minute

Journey

across

town

can

become

very

may have a discussion about the government and its leaders or a friendly talk

about the driver

’

s Aunty Nellie! One thing is for sure, it will never be s know

all the latest news about film stars, the Royal Family, government leaders, and popular singers

or actors and actresses.

They also know the best places to eat, shop and relax. And they can take you straight to

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any

large

hotel,

department

store,

theatre

or

know

the

shortest

way

possible

without even

looking at a map, because everyone who wants to become a

taxi driver must

pass a very difficult examination in order to get a license to drive a taxi. The exam is called

“The Knowledge.”

It is a written test, and in it drivers are asked the shortest way from one

place to another. They must take into account the time of day

—

in rush hour, a longer route

(

路线

)may

be

quicker-and

describe

the

best

way.

Moreover

they

must

never

forget

the

one- way streets

！

21. From what can we tell that someone is a Cockney?

A. Their interest.

.

B. Their manners.

C. Their speech.

D. Their appearance.

22. What does the author suggest by mentioning

A. Passengers are full of curiosity.

B. Cabbies’topics are wide

-ranging.

C. Aunty Nellie is popular in London.

D. Londoners are friendly to each other.

23. What is the purpose of

A. To qualify one to drive a taxi.

.

B. To assess one's driving skills.

C. To test drivers’ability to write.

D. To check taxi drivers memory.

B

This month millions of American kids can forget about classroom bells and set off for < /p>

grandparents’homes,sleep

-away

camps

and

lifeguard

stands.

But

summer

vacation

hasn’t

always

been

a

birthright

of

U.S.

schoolchildren.

Before

the

Civil War,

schools

operated

on

one

of

two

calendars(

日历

),

neither

of

which

included

a

summer

vacation.

Rural

(

农村

的

)schooling was divided into summer and winter terms, leaving kids free to help with the

farm work in the spring planting and fall harvest students,meanwhile, regularly

had as many as 48 weeks of study a year, with one break per quarter.

In the 1840s, however, educational reformers like Horace Mann moved to combine the

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two calendars out of concern that rural schooling was not enough and that overusing of young

minds could lead to nervous appeared as the obvious time for a break

：

it

offered

a

rest

for

teachers,fit

in

the

farming

calendar

and

reduced

doctors’

concern

that

packing students into hot classrooms would promote the spread of disease.

But people's opinion about the modern U.S. school year, which averages 180 days, is still

experts

say its

pleasant but lazy summer break, which took hold in the early

20th

century,

is

one

of

the

reasons

math

skills

and

graduation

rates

of

U.S.

high

schoolers

ranked

well

below

average

in two

international education

reports

published

in

insist that with children under increasing pressure to devote their downtime to internships (

实

习

) or study, there’s still room for an institution that pro

tects the lazy days of childhood.

24. What did the rural school calendar before the Civil War allow children to do?

A. Enjoy a summer vacation.

B. Take a break each quarter.

C. Have 48 weeks of study a year.

D. Assist their parents with farm work.

25. What did the educational reformers do in the 1840s?

A. They introduced summer vacation.

B. They shortened rural school terms.

C. They promoted the study of farming.

D. They advocated higher pay for teachers.

26. Why are some people unhappy about the modern U.S. school year?

A. It pushes the teachers too hard.

B. It reduces the quality of education.

C. It ignores science instruction.

D. It includes no time for internships.

C

I start every summer with the best of intentions:to attack one big book from the past, a

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classic

that

I

was

supposed

to

have

read

when

young

and

ambitious.

Often the

pairings

of

books

and settings

have been purely accidental:

train trip:

“The Magic Mountain”

in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the

doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms, and little to do beyond row on the salt pond.

Attempting

less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes (

册

), then decided that I'd got the

point and went swimming instead.

But

this

summer

I

find

myself

at

a

loss.

I’m

not

quite

interested

in

Balzac,

say,

or

“Tristram Shandy.”

There’s always War and Peace, which I've covered some dis

tance several

times, only to get bogged down in the

have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and

social rank.

How

appealing

to

simply

fall

back

on

a

favorite- once

more

into

Wav es

“Justine,”

which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong in serious

literature.

And then there’s Stendhal's

my favorite cocktail (

鸡尾酒

)of the summer, created by Michael Cecconi at Savoy and Back

Forty. It is easy to drink, and knocking back three or four seems like such a delightful idea.

Cecconi's

theory:

take

whatever

’s

fresh

at

the

greenmarket

and

turn

it

into

liquid.

result is a pure shot of afternoon in the park, making one feel cheerful and peaceful all at once,

lying on uncut grass with eyes shut, sun beating through the lids...

27. What can we infer about the author from the first paragraph?

A. He has a cottage in New England.

B. He shows talents for literature.

C. He enjoys reading when traveling.

D. He admires a lot of great writers.

28. What do the underlined words

A. Get confused.

B. Be carried away.

C. Be interrupted.

D. Make no progress.

29. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?

A. He finishes them quickly.

.

B. He should read something serious.

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