______ quite recently, most mothers in Britain did not take paid work outside the home.
People say fish and chips is typical()Britain.
Passage 1
Many visitors (1)______ Britain are not fond of English food. They are often heard (2)______ ,"English food is not good, English cooking is (3)______" But they do not really know what they are talking about because they (4)______ get a chance to eat it. (5)______ of the restaurants in large towns have foreign (6)______ and serve foreign food. When visitors are (7)______ to eat in an English home, the hosts often feel they must offer them something (8)______. Those of us (9)______ do know English food understand that at its best it (10)______ be really very good. (11)______, it is true to say that it is (12)______ terrible. Part of the (13)______ is that we are not really interested in food — we eat to live, we do not live to eat. So usually we do not (14)______ the necessary time cooking truly good meals. We like food that is simple and (15)______ to cook, or already prepared food which only needs heating up (16)______ eating.
You can find the best English food in the country (17)______ the large towns, (18)______ life is slower and people are not in such a hurry. (19)______, of course, most visitors who come to London do not come because (20)______ food.
1. A. in B. at C. to D. of
2. A. saying B. asking C. telling D. talking
3. A. wonderful B. nice C. terrible D. special
4. A. always B. never C. seldom D. often
5. A. Many B. Most C. All D. None
6. A. visitors B. owners C. waiters D. guests
7. A. invited B. made C. offered D. asked
8. A. different B. usual C. foreign D. delicious
9. A. whom B. who C. whose D. which
10. A. should B. must C. may D. can
11. A. At the same time B. On the other hand C. For example D. In another word
12. A. some time B. sometime C. sometimes D. some times
13. A. problem B. question C. answer D. time
14. A. take B. waste C. spend D. have
15. A. hard B. hardly C. easy D. easily
16. A. when B. before C. after D. while
17. A. near B. inside C. around D. away from
18. A. when B. where C. which D. that
19. A. But B. And C. So D. If
20. A. on B. in C. of D. to
Air quality in Britain has improved considerably in the last 30
years. Total emissions of smoke in the air have
risen by over 85 per cent since 1950. The domestic (1)____
smoking control program has been particularly important in (2)____
achieving this result. London and other major cities are no (3)____
longer have the dense smoke-laden “smogs” of the
1950s, and in central London winter sunshine has (4)____
increased about 70 per cent since 1958. (5)____
Since 1990, daily air pollution data from the
British monitoring network has been made available (6)____
to the public by the Department of the Environ-
ment’s Air Quality Bulletins. These give the concen-
trations of three main pollutants-ozone, nitrogen
dioxide and sulfur dioxide –and grade air quality
on a scale between “very weak” and “very (7)____
good”. The information features in television and
radio weather reports, appears in many national and (8)____
local newspapers. Therefore, the data are available (9)____
on a special free telephone number and on videotext systems.
A comprehensive review of the issue of urban
air quality was published in January 1992. Three
independent committees of which experts have been (10)____
established to advise on different aspects of the problem, and
will set guidelines and targets for air quality. The network is
also being extended and upgraded at a cost of £10 million.
Many People in Britain have more than one job.
Under Margaret Thatcher Britain experienced()
Scotland occupies the()third of the island of Great Britain in the British Isles.
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