Passage 1Most people who work in London get a break of about an hour for lunch. As they mostly live too far from home to go back there for lunch, they are obliged to make other arrangements for their midday meal.Many large firms have a canteen for their employees. In such canteens the food served is plain but adequate, and although there is some variety of choice, the number of dishes is usually small. The employees themselves fetch their dishes from a counter at which they are served. Some firms that do not run a canteen provide their staff with luncheon vouchers, which many restaurants will accept in place of money.As there are so many people at work in London, there are numerous cafés and restaurants in every area that is not purely residential. A meal may cost anything from a modest sum to quite a few pounds, depending on the restaurant and the food chosen. Moreover, one can generally get a meal, or at least a snack, in a pub. A number of well known caterers run popular cafés in practically every district of London. In many of these cafés there is self service there are no waiters or waitresses. Instead the customers help themselves and pay at a cash desk before going to their tables. In recent years there has also been a big increase in the number of “take away” food shops of all kinds.Many employees do not bother to go out for lunch. They bring their own sandwiches, and perhaps an apple or a bun, with which they have a cup of tea, probably made in the office. This method has the advantages of being cheap and of saving time in getting to a restaurant and queuing up there.

People do not go home for lunch because _____.

(二)将下列句子译成英文3.在通货膨胀的日子里，自杀的人比往常要多。(4分)

在快捷和舒适方面，没什么交通方式可以和飞机相媲美。(4分)

The price of vegetable has been rising steadily this month, as the supply is insufficient to meet the demand. (4分)

一、将下列句子译成中文1.Everyone knows that taxation is necessary in a modern state. (3分)

一、将下列词语译成中文 (5分)1.indirect tax2.the Great Lakes region3.a regular port4.policy holder5.technological progress

The word “sluggard” in the third paragraph means _____.

二、将下列词语译成英文 (5分)6.人际关系7.比较利益8.消费者需求9.激光束10.交通方式

The “pleasant day” to which the author refers was the period when we _____.

According to the passage, which of the following is a necessity?

Passage 2We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep and talk efficiently.Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of movie and put culture in pocket sized package. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-a-minute and the great Efficiency smiles.We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy, when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it. But that of course would not be efficient; and we Americans must be efficient.

The phrase that best expresses the main idea of this passage is _____.