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¡°Milton¡±(middle enclosure) and ¡°Hilton¡±(enclosure on a hill).ª¤

70. Surnames are said to be ___ in Anglo-Saxon England.ª¤

A. common B. vocational C. unusual D. descriptiv e ª¤

71. We learn from the first paragraph ___ for many years after the 13th and 14th centuries.ª¤

A. family names became descriptive and occupationalª¤

B. people in some areas still had no surnamesª¤

C. some people kept changing their surnamesª¤

D. all family names became fixed in England ª¤

72. ¡°Patronymic¡± in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ¡°forme d from ___.ª¤

A. the name of one¡¯s father¡± B. the family occupation¡±ª¤ C. one¡¯s family home¡±

D. one¡¯s family history¡± ª¤

73. Which of the following sentences is an opinion rather than a fact?ª¤

A. hundreds of occupational names are at once familiar to us.ª¤

B. ¡°Black¡± and ¡°White¡± implied ¡°dark¡± and ¡°fair¡± respectively.ª¤

C. Vocational names carry with them a certain gravity and dignity.ª¤

D. Every place in England has given its name to a family. ª¤ª¤

TEXT C

Since the early 1930s, Swiss banks had prided themselves on their system of banking secrecy

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and numbered accounts. Over the years, they had successfully w ithstood every challenge to this

system by their own government who, in turn, ha d been frequently urged by foreign governments

to reveal information about the f inancial affairs to certain account holders. The result of this

policy of secre cy was that a kind of mystique had grown up around Swiss banking. There was a

w idely-held belief that Switzerland was irresistible to wealthy foreigners, mainl y because of its

numbered accounts and bankers¡¯ reluctance to ask awkward questi ons of depositors. Contributing

to the mystique was the view, carefully propagat ed by the banks themselves, that if this secrecy

was ever given up, foreigners w ould fall over themselves in the rush to withdraw money, and the

Swiss banking s ystem would virtually collapse overnight.ª¤

To many, therefore, it came like a bolt out of the blue, when, in 1977, the Swiss banks

announced they had signed a pact with the Swiss National Bank (the Central Bank). The aim of

the agreement was to prevent to improper use of the c ountry¡¯s bank secrecy laws, and its effect

was to curb severely the system of se crecy.ª¤

The rules which the banks had agreed to observe made the opening of numbere d accounts

subject to much closer scrutiny than before. The banks would be requ ired, if necessary, to

identify the origin of foreign funds going into numbered and other accounts. The idea was to

stop such accounts being used for dubious p urposes. Also they agreed not to accept funds

resulting from tax evasion or from crime.ª¤

The pact represented essentially a tightening up of banking rules. Although the banks agreed

to end relations with clients whose identities were unclear or who were performing improper acts,

they were still not obliged to inform on a client to anyone, including the Swiss government. To

some extent, therefore, the princ iple of secrecy had been maintained.ª¤

74. Swiss banks took pride in___.ª¤

A. the number of their accountsª¤

B. withholding client informationª¤

C. being mysterious to the outsidersª¤

D. attracting wealthy foreign clients ª¤

75. According to the passage, the widely-held belief that Switzerland w as irresistible to

wealthy foreigners was ___ by banks themselves.ª¤

A. denied B. criticized C. reviewed D. defended ª¤

76. In the last paragraph, the writer thinks that___.ª¤

A. complete changes had been introduced into Swiss banksª¤

B. Swiss banks could no longer keep client informationª¤

C. changes in the bank policies had been somewhat superficialª¤

D. more changes need to be considered and made ª¤ª¤

TEXT D

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Coketown was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the sm oke and the

ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatura l red and black like the painted

face of a savage. It was a town of machinery an d tall chimneys, out of which smoke trailed

themselves for ever and ever. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling

dye, and vas t piles of buildings full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day

long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up an d down like the head

of an elephant in a state of madness. The town contained se veral large streets all very like one

another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one

another.ª¤

A sunny midsummer day. There was such a thing sometimes, even in Coketown. Seen from a

distance in such weather, Coketown lay covered in a haze of its own. You only knew the town was

there, because you knew there could have been no such blo tch upon the view without a town.ª¤

The streets were hot and dusty on the summer day, and the sun was so bright that it even

shone through the haze over Coketown, and could not be looked at steadi ly. Workers emerged

from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on posts and steps, wiping their faces

and contemplating coals. The whole town see med to be frying in oil. There was a stifling smell of

hot oil everywhere. The a tmosphere of those places was like the breath of hell, and their

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