June came and the hay was almost ready for cutting. On Midsummer’s Eve, which was a Saturday, Mr. Jones went into Willington and got so drunk at the Red Lion that he did not come back till midday on Sunday. The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering (麻烦) to feed the animals. When Mr. Jones got back, he immediately went to sleep on the living-room sofa with the "News of the World" over his face, so that when evening came, the animals were still not fed. At last, they could stand no longer. One of the cows broke into the door of the store-house with her horns (角) and all the animals began to help themselves to the grains. It was just then that Mr. Jones woke up. The next moment he and his four men were in the store-house with whips in their hands, whipping in all directions. This was more than the hungry animals would bear. Together, though nothing of the kind had been planned beforehand, they jumped upon thei
A. Washington was the name of a hotel.
B. Red Lion was the name of a restaurant.
C. News of the World was a TV programme.
D. Store-house is a place to feed the cows.
Last year French drivers killed fewer than 5, 000 people on the roads for the first time in decades. Credit goes largely to the 1,000 automated radar cameras planted on the nation’s highways since 2003, which experts reckon saved 3,000 lives last year. 41. _____________________
So it goes with surveillance these days. Europeans used to look at the security cameras posted in British cities, subways and buses as the seeds of an Orwellian world that was largely unacceptable in Continental Europe. But last year’s London bombings, in which video cameras played a key role in identifying the perpetrators, have helped spur a sea change. 42. _____________________. In a British poll, 73 percent of respondents said they were ready to give up some civil liberties to improve security.
Europe’s politicians are now less concerned with privacy than with appearing to be soft on terror ism. In December, lawmakers in Brussels passed Europe wide legislation that per
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