Passage 1 Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe(订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers? Five hundred years
Passage 3 In the last 500 years, nothing about people—not their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tr
Passage 2 Some people argue that the pressure on international sportsmen and sportswomen kills the essence of sport—the pursuit of personal excellence. Children kick a football around for fun. When t
Passage 1 For many Englishmen there can never be any discussion as to who is the world’s greatest poet and greatest dramatist. Only one name can possibly suggests itself to him: that of William Shake