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A．calledB．entitledC．knownD．understood
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London Cabbies(出租车司机)
Every city in the world has taxis to take tourists to interesting places. London is the only city in the world where taking a taxi is an （51）experience for tourists. This is partly because of the special black cabs, which are found in no other country. But it is also because of the drivers themselves. （52）British people are famous for being polite and reserved, London cabbies are well-known（53）their willingness to talk.
Some customers say that once the door shuts and the cab（54）off they are a captive(监禁了的)audience. It is impossible to get the taxi driver to stop （55）. “They're self-confident and free thinking, ”said Malcolm Linskey, the author of a history of taxi drivers in London.
They are also expensive. London has the most expensive taxis of any city in the world except Tokyo. That's why Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, is planning to make taxi drivers negotiate their fares with（56）before they take a ride.
Drivers agree that their fares are expensive. That's because their black taxis（57）more than other cars, they say. And the customer is also paying for more driving expertise(专门知识)than anywhere else in the world.
Before someone can qualify as a London taxi driver, that person has to pass a test （58）simply as “The Knowledge”. This involves（59）the name and location of every street within six miles of a point in the exact centre of London. The trainee(受训者)must also learn the exact location of every important building within these streets. Finally he or she must be able to use this knowledge to work out the （60）distance between any two destinations within this area.
It can（61）up to three years to pass“The Knowledge”. Every day it is possible to see trainee taxi drivers on the streets of London, taking careful notes of popular destinations before tracing the route to their next stop. Cab driving is a job often（62）down in families. Many taxi drivers take their children out in their spare time to memorize（63）they need to know when it is their turn to do “The Knowledge”.
London cabbies also have bigger brains. Recent research found that the part of the brain that remembers things was larger and more（64）in cab drivers. They have to fit the whole of London into their heads, so their brains grow bigger. So perhaps it is not（65）that taxi drivers have lots to say.
A．The shock a businessman feels when there is no room for bargaining.B．The shock Peace
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In a wealthy neighbourhood in Seoul, anxious parents drag frightened toddlers into Dr Nam Woo's office and demand that he operate on the children's tongues. It is a simple procedure: Just a snip (剪开) on a membrane and the tongue is supposedly longer, more flexible and—some South Koreans believe—better able to pronounce such notorious tongue-teasers for Asians as the English word "rice" so it doesn't sound like "lice".
"Parents are eager to have their children speak English, and so they want to have them get the operation," said Nam, who performs about 10 procedures a month, almost all on children younger than 5.
In this competitive and education-obsessed society, fluent and unaccented English is the top goal of language study and is pursued with fervor.
It is not unusual for 6-month-old infants to be put in front of the television for as long as five hours a day to watch instruction videos, or for 7-year-olds to be sent out after dinner for English cram courses.
South Korean parents will spend the equivalent of a month's salary on monthly tuition at English-language kindergartens and up to U.S.＄50 an hour for tutors. Between the after-school courses, flashcards, books and videos, English instruction is estimated to be a U.S. ＄3-billion-a-year industry—and that doesn't include the thousands of children sent abroad to hone their skills.
In another display of linguistic zeal, the Seoul city government recently set up a hotline for citizens to call if they see English spelling or grammar mistakes on public signs. "Learning English is almost the national religion," said Jonathan Hilts, host of a popular English-language talk sow on South Korea's Educational Broadcasting System.
The most controversial aspect of the English craze is the tongue surgery, which critics say is unnecessary. No statistics exist in South Korea about the number of such operations, which usually are done in private clinics. However, doctors say the procedure's popularity has soared with the boom in English instruction. Linguists sneer at the idea that South Koreans' tongues are too short to speak English properly.
"Since Westerners are taller they might have longer tongues. But this operation lengthens the tongue by only a millimeter or two and that has nothing to with it. The real problem for South Koreans, as for Japanese, is that their own languages make no distinction between Ls and Rs, so their ears cannot detect the difference."
According to some linguists, the reason why South Koreans can't pronounce "Rice" correctly is that ______.
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