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The government disagreed and abolished a restrictive regime first imposed during the First World War by David Lloyd George, the prime minister, who wanted to prevent munitions workers from getting too drunk.While ministers never denied that Britons had an unhealthy attitude to liquor, they argued that much of the crime and disorder that blighted city streets at night was caused by hordes of drunkards rolling out of pubs and clubs at the same time and fighting for the same taxi home. They cited the wartime experience in Australia, where an early closing time had led to a phenomenon dubbed the"six o'clock's swill", in which people drank themselves silly against the clock. The hope was that, oncehours were relaxed, Britons would adopt more civilised, continental habits, sipping delicately at glasses of Chablis rather than downing ten pints. Were the optimists or the pessimists right?Since the law was changed, around two-thirds of licensed premises have extended their open- ing times, most by an hour or so. (Fewer than 1 percent were granted a 24-hour licence. ) That smoothed the ]lp. m. and 2 a. m. chuck-out peaks and filled in some of the troughs. Local authori- ties in several large, lively cities, including Birmingham, Nottingham and Manchester, report that the streets are no more disorderly than before. One popular drinkers' street in Birmingham has seen a dramatic drop in crime (although that may also be because businesses, fearing the worst, paid for street wardens). In London, most strikingly, there has not been a single month since the drinking laws were relaxed when more violent crimes were recorded than in the same month a year earlier. That is also true in Westminster, where many of the capital's pubs and clubs are clustered. Overall levels of violence in the borough have fallen by 12 percent in the ten months since November 2005, compared with the same period a year before.The police remain cautious about such positive signs, saying it is still too early to tell what effect liberalisation will have on crime. They point out that local forces have diverted time and money to police late-night drinking, and have been given extra cash by the government. That will run out on Christmas Eve, at which point things may become trickier.In the meantime, pessimists are marshalling new, more ambitious arguments. Martin Plant of the University of the West of England maintains that freer drinking can lead to long-termproblems that are not immediately apparent. Iceland's capital, Reykjavik, softened drinking laws seven years ago. While policing became easier, more drunkards pitched up at hospital and drink-driving rates soared.51. The following statements are true EXCEPT thatA. the English indulgence in alcohol even horrified Roman invaders.B. the police and judges were in favor of the relaxation of licensing hours.C. the government did away with a law regulating drinking hours last year.D. World War I first saw the implementation of the law regulating drinking hours.52. Why did the government want to reform the drinking-hour restrictions?A. To follow the example of Australia.B. To change Britons' attitude to alcohol.C. To reduce the amount of alcohol consumed.D. To reduce crime rates caused by drinking.53. What happens now in big cities?A.Hordes of drunkards flood out of pubs at llp. m. and 2a.m.B. More licenses are granted to pubs and clubs.C. There are fewer criminal offences related to drinking.D. Things are different in London from other big cities.54. The police hold the view thatA. the changes are due to more police efforts rather than the reform.B. extension of drinking hours has produced a negative outcome.C. the government obscures the truth by providing extramoney.D. the success of the reform can only be guaranteed with more government input.55. Those who do not see a good prospect of the drinking reformA. are trying to find more effective solutions.B. are convinced that the reform will lead to more violent crimes.C. believe that there should be adequate medical service for the drunkards.D. believe that softened drinking laws may produce negative long-term effects.Text 2The best estimate of humanity's ecological footprint suggests that it now exceeds the Earth's re- generative capacity by around 20 percent. This fact is mentioned early on in the latest book from Lester R. Brown. The subtitle of Plan B 2.0 makes the bold claim of rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble. So will Brown's Plan B work?The green movement divides broadly into two camps technological optimists and social revolu- tionaries. For every person like Brown proposing new ways to produce protein, there is an indige- nous movement in a developing country struggling for land redistribution. Another divide is be- tween those who see the biggest environmental problem as population pressure in the developing South, and those who say it is'consumption patterns in the rich North. When push comes to shove, Brown qualifies as a technological optimist who is worried about population. The giveaway is his eulogy to green techno-fixes, coupled with the fear of fast-growing developing countriescopying Western consumer lifestyles.His optimism, though, appears forced as he rolls out a depressing litany of statistics describing species extinction, water shortage, economic upheaval resulting from the eventual decline of oil production and, of course, climate change. And his rescue plans? Shoehorned into Brown's book is a section headed "Eradicating poverty, stabilizing population". This relies heavily on the orthodox approach to human development that seeks to use aid to plug the income gap for poor countries. Enumerating the costs of attaining the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals on health,education and poverty reduction, Brown conveys a sense that a few new fiscal measures, combined with the goodwill of rich countries, will deliver. This is an approach that has been followed for the last three decades, and it has not worked. During the 1990s, the share of benefits from global eco- nomic growth reaching those living on less than a dollar a day fell by 73 percent, in spite of count- less p——omises to end poverty. This is the problem with Plan B 2.0.Brown's picture of climate-change-induced chaos is terrifying and convincing. It includes the awful image of the world's poorest people competing for food with an ever-hungrier bio-fuels indus- try, whose job will be to keep the developed world's SUVs on the road as oil becomes ever more expensive and then runs out. The combination of industrial inertia and the influence of industry on lobbyists is making this vision increasingly plausible. The poor get a bad deal because the world is run by the economic equivalent of gunboat diplomacy, as the recent World Tracie Organization talks showed.Technologically optimistic visions often have too much faith that change will flow from a ration- al discussion about sensiblepolicies, while tiptoeing around the real problems of power and politics. Even with Brown's Plan B to tell us which renewable energy technologies to use and which resilient food crops to grow, we are going to need a way to deal with economic vested interests and the demo- cratic deficit in global financial institutions that excludes the poor. For that, we need Plan C.56. What is the issue that Brown tries to address in his newly published book?[ A]The word's population has increased by 20 percent.B. Human activities have gone beyond what the earth is able to sustain.C. Human beings have developed in a certain ecological pattern.D. The green movement has failed to produce needed environmental changes.57. Brown believes that the spread of consumerism to less developed countries hasA. led to land shortage and redistribution.B. narrowed down the difference in lifestyle.C. contributed to environmental deterioration.D. increased high-protein food consumption.58. Talking about Brown's dismal picture of environmental degradation, the author thinks thatA. his optimism does not seem to be well-grounded.B. too many depressing statistics were listed in his book.C. his description of the environmental problems lacks a focus.D. he is trying to force his optimism on the readers.59. The phrase "gunboat diplomacy" ( line 6, para. 4) meansA. to deal with industrial relations in the automobile sector by way of lobbying.B. to threaten to use force to make a smallercountry agree to your demand.C. to negotiate within the WTO framework in dealing with bilateral relations. A. Because new sensible policies may bring about positive changes.B. Because the gap between the rich and poor should be narrowed.C. Because new technologies and crops can be introduced under this plan.D. Because the core problems of international politics should be addressed first.Text 3The average person sees tens of thousands of images a day--images on television, in news- papers and magazines, and on the sides of buses. Images also grace soda cans and T-shirts, and In- ternet search engines can instantly procure images for any word you type. On Flickr. com, a photo- sharing Web site, you can type in a word such as "love" and find photos of couples in embrace or parents hugging their children. Type in "terror", and among the results is a photograph of the World Trade Center towers burning. "Remember when this was a shocking image?" asks the per- son who posted the picture.The question is not merely rhetorical. It points to something important about images in our cul- ture: they have become less magical and less shocking. Until the development of mass reproduc- tion, images carried more power and evoked more fear.Today, anyone with a digital camera and a PC can produce and alter an image. As a result, the power of the image has been diluted in one sense, but strengthened in another. It has been dilu- ted by the ubiquity of images and the many populist technologies ( like inexpensive cameras and picture-editingsoftware) that give,almost everyone the power to create, distort, and transmit ima- ges. But it has been strengthened by the gradual surrender of the printed word to pictures. Text ce- ded to image might be likened to an articulate person being rendered mute, forced to communicate via gesture and expression rather than language.We love images and the democratizing power of technologies that give us the capability to make and manipulate images. What we are less eager to consider are the broader cultural effects of a society devoted to the image. Historians and anthropologists have explored the story of mankind's movement from an oral-based culture to a written culture, and later to a printed one. But in the past several decades we have begun to move from a culture based on the printed word to one based largely on images.In making images rather than texts our guide, are we opening up new vistas for understanding and expression, creating a new form of communication that is "better than print," as some scholars have argued? Or are we merely making a peculiar and unwelcome return to forms of communica- tion once ascendant in preliterate societies?Two things in particular are at stake in our contemporary confrontation with an image-based culture. First, technology has considerably undermined our ability to trust what we see, yet we have not adequately grappled with the effects of this on our notions of truth. Second, if we are in- deed moving from the era of the printed word to an era dominated by the image, what impact will this have on. culture? Will we become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality and in the process rejecting the demandsof discipline and patience that true things often require of us if we are to understand their meaning and describe it with preci- sion?61. The first paragraph of the text tells us thatA. we are exposed to a multitude of images every day.B. consumer goods with images look more graceful.C. the Internet can instantly present images of anything we want to buy.D. Internet search engines give us undesired and shocking images.62.With the development of mass reproduction, imagesA. have become le,ss important in popular culture.B. are not as impressive as they were to viewers.C. will be more magical and shocking in the future.D. will become more and more thought-provoking.63. The power of the image has been strengthened in the sense thatA. populist technologies enable almost everybody to manipulate images.B. images have gradually won popularity among common people.C. images are forcing us to communicate via gestures rather than language.D. with populist technologies, texts might give way to pictures gradually.64. What does "forms of communication once ascendant in preliterate societies" (line 4,para. 5) refer to?A.Images.B. Written words.C. Printed images.D. Texts.65. From the text, it can be inferred that the authorA. agrees that images offer a better form of communication than the print.B. does not share the opinion that an image-based culture is less advanced.C. shows deep concern about the impact of images on culture.D.prefers the image era to that of the printed word.SECTl0N IIIReading ComprehensionPartAText l在欧洲，英格兰的豪饮是最根深蒂固的习俗，甚至罗马侵略者都战战兢兢的对其进行了描述。
