alcohol. Workaholics would (35) rather work than do anything else and this can be most important to their life. Workaholics are often (36) under stress. They can’t relax and feel tense. (37) As a result they may easily lose temper. Their work therefore has serious impact on their relationships and family life. Typical workaholics pay little attention to families. They spend (38) little time with their children and their marriages may (39) end in divorce. Their inability to relax may cause (40) health problems, such as high blood pressure. Passage 6
There are advantages and disadvantages to (31) both Asian and Western educational methods. For example, one advantage (32) to the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science (33) than American students. They also study more hours each day than Americans(34) do . The study is difficult,but it (35) prepares students for a society that values discipline and self-control. There is, however, a disadvantage. Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, (36) yet many students
say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorized. The advantage to the education in North America, (37) on the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves. The system prepares them for a society that values (38) new ideas.There is, however, a disadvantage. When students graduate from high school, they haven’t memorized (39) as many basic rules and facts as students in other countries (40) have . Passage7
Jules Verne’s most famous book is “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea”. (A “league” is an old word (16) meaning about three miles.) In those days submarines (潜水艇) had not been (17) invented ,but he describes an underwater ship very like a modern submarine. The captain of the submarine, called Captain Nemo, and his men have many strange adventures and find many strange things (18) at the bottom of the ocean. He was a very good (19) story-teller B. sailor. His characters often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed (20) to be real people. In another book, “Around the World in Eighty Days”,
Jules Verne creates Mr. Fogg, the hero, (21)who made a bet that he would travel around the world in eighty days. Nowadays this may seem (22) easy to you, but in those days there were no planes or even cars. Mr. Fogg and his servant traveled in many different (23) ways , even on an elephant at one time! If you want to know their result, you should read the book. In all his books Jules Verne used his scientific knowledge (24) as well as his imagination in describing future inventions. (25) Sometimes he was wrong, of course, but often the accuracy of his descriptions is very clever. Passage 8
Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he (16)used to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and (17) was working in a pub when he (18) decided to start his own business. Peter had always (19) been interested in plants and flowers, (20) so he decided to set up a company (21) which cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his (22) own, but soon he took (23) on_ two people to help him. The company has been growing (24) ---不要填for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich, (25 ) _but__ he complains that now he
doesn’t work with plants but with a computer every day! Passage 9
Frank knew he was very ill. He spent days walking, sometimes as far as thirty miles in a day, trying to reason with the pain, and strange thoughts in his mind. Then, one night, he made up his mind that he would go to the hospital and ask them to admit him. He reported to out-patients and asked to see a psychiatrist. A junior doctor eventually examined him and listened to Frank's confused account of having been in hospital before, of how he thought he ought to be admitted again because he was so confused and knew something was very wrong with him.
The doctor did not admit him. Frank cannot remember whether he was told that the hospital was full or that they simply did not believe him. \\ anybody there to help.\\So Frank went back on to the streets to find a future of sleeping outside, the occasional shelter in hospitals, and sometimes prison whenever he was picked up for being drunk: drunk because it was the
only way he could forget his condition. Frank had sought help and been turned away. Thousands of others like him can find no help either. They are the sufferers from long-term mental illness that confuse the minds of their victims. Passage 10
In the UK, in business,when you meet someone for the first time you shake hands and say ,How do you do?This is mot really a puestion ,and the reply to it is another greeting such as“ How do you do?”or “Hello” or “I’m very pleased to meet you “or” ,if you have met the person sometime before, “It’s good to see you again”.if you have met the person sometime before, “It’s good to see you again”. You don’t shake hands every time you meet someone,you just greet them. If you are invited to Someone’s house for dinner ,it is usual to take ; present some chocolates or flowers or ,if you know them quite well ,a bottle of wine. If yhou do not know the host well, don’t be the last person to leave. Telephone the next day to thank the host for the meal. English people don’t like to talk about personal things ,and tend to avoid religion, politics and money.
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