quite warm. Palm trees, bamboo（竹）and many semitropical （亚热带的）plants grow well in the southwest of England. Flowers and vegetables ripen （成熟）as much as month earlier than those elsewhere. Farmers in the area obtain a higher price for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier. In winter there may be several feet of snow in other parts of England but there will probably be no snow at all in the southwest. This may be one of the reasons why the southwest is one of England's most popular holiday areas.
6. The distance from the center of England to the south coast is about (one hundred and fifty miles). 7. England is a country (with a variety of climates).
8. According to the passage, (flowers
and vegetables from Devon are on the market one month earlier).
9. In the north of England and the Midlands, (only the summer is not cold and wet).
10. In winter, people in Devon and Cornwall (seldom see snow). Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Are you worried by the rising crime rate? If you are then you probably know that your house, possessions and person are increasingly in danger of suffering from the tremendous rise in the cases of
burglary （盗窃）and assault （袭击）?
Figures indicate an ever-increasing crime rate, but it is only too easy to imagine “ It will never happen to me”. Unfortunately, statistics show that it
really can happen to you and, if you live in a large city, you run twice the risk of being a victim.
Fortunately, there is something definite which you can do. Protect Alarms can help to protect your house with a burglar alarm system which is effective, simple to operate and easily affordable.
You must remember that possessing a burglar alarm is no indication that your house is packed with valuable possessions. It quite simple indicates to unwelcome visitors that yours is one house they will not break into easily, so they carry on to an unprotected house where their job is made a lot easier.
Send now for our free leaflet (小册子) telling you how we can Protect Alarm your house quickly, easily and cheaply. Complete and tear off the slip below
and post it to us. Postage is free.
Alternatively, telephone us at 3276721 where we have around-the-clock answering service. It costs nothing to find out about Protect Alarms. 11. Anyone who takes an interest in the crime rate will, according to the text, be aware that (homes are more likely to be broken into than before). 12. I seems that people who live in cities are (more likely to fall victim to burglary than those living in the country).
13. The writer of this text wants to give the impression that the Protect Alarms system is (economical).
14. The article claims that possessing an alarm system will (make the burglars' undertaking more complicated).
15. The purpose of the article is (to
persuade people to buy something). Passage 4
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
In what now seems like the prehistoric times of computer history, the early post-war era (战后时期), there was a quite widespread concern that computers would take over the world from man one day. Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem. People tend to be over-trusting （过分信任）of computers and are reluctant to challenge their authority. Indeed, they behave as if
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