TEXT C
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books——especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy `proper’ books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize-in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the numberless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volume, the collectors must venture off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to small barrows which line the gutters. And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them, punce upon the dusty cascade. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
Both Charing Cross Road and Farringdon Road are well-known haunts of the book buyer. Yet all over London there are bookshops, in places not so well known, where the wares are equally varied and exciting. It is in the sympathetic atmosphere of such shops that the ardent book buyer feels most at home. In these shops, even the lifelong book-browser is frequently rewarded by the accidental discovery of previously unknown delights. One could, in fact, easily spend a lifetime exploring London’s bookshops. There are many less pleasant ways of spending time!
73. In the bookshops of Charing Cross Road you can get____.
A. new books of any kind
B. tiny dusty books
C. second-hand books on various subjects
D. both A and C
74. The book-browser ____.
A. never gets tired of exploring London’s bookshops
B. has many other pleasant ways of spending time
C. always stays at home reading
D. goes to bookshops to kill time every day
75. According to the passage the best-known bookshops are ____.
A. in the East Central district
B. throughout the city
C. in some parts of the city
D. in the center of the city
76. This passage tells us that ____.
A. Londoners have plenty of time to read books
B. Londoners are rich enough to buy various books
C. Londoners enjoy collecting and reading books
D. Londoners prefer second-hand books.
TEXT D
They are among the 250,000 people under the age of 25 who are out of work in the Netherlands, a group that accounts for 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed. A storm of anger boils up at the government-sponsored youth center, even among those who are continuing their studies.
“We study for jobs that don’t exist,” Nicollets Steggerda, 23, said.
After three decades of prosperity, unemployment among 10 member nations of the European Community has exceeded 11 percent, affecting a total of 12.3 million people, and the number is climbing.
The bitter disappointment long expressed by British youths is spreading across the Continent. The title of a rock song “No Future” can now be seen written on the brick walls of closed factories in Belgium and France.
Recent surveys have found that the increasing argument in the last few years over the deployment in Europe of North Atlantic Treaty Organization missiles and the possibility of nuclear war have clouded European youths’ confidence in the future.
One form of protest tends to put the responsibility for a country’s economic troubles on the large numbers of “guest workers” from Third World nations, people welcomed in Western Europe in the years of prosperity.
Young Europeans, brought up in an extended period of economic success and general stability, seem to resemble Americans more than they do their own parents. Material enjoyment has given them a sense of expectation, even the right, to a standard of living that they see around them.
“And so we pass the days at the disco, or meet people at the café, and sit and stare,” said Isabella Gault. “There is usually not much conversation. You look for happiness. Sometimes you even find it.”
77. What Nicollets Steggerda said (Paragraph 2) means that____.
A. school education is not sufficient
B. what the students learn is more than necessary
C. the students cannot get work after graduation
D. the students’ aim in study is not clear
78. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The rock song “No Future” is an expression of the disappointment of European youth.
B. 40% of the guest workers are out of work in Western Europe now.
C. European youths are worried about a new world war in the future.
D. Widespread unemployment is beyond European youths expectation.
79. British youths ____.
A. are trying to find work on the Continent
B. are sympathetic with the unemployed on the Continent
C. have been the first to show their disappointment over joblessness
D. show their concern for unemployment in France and Belgium
80. It seems that young Europeans ____.
A. look upon life as their elders do
B. are more like Americans than their elders in their way of thinking
C. look more like Americans than their elders do
D. expect more from Americans than from their elders