[简答题]George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four was far more prescient than any person realized who grew up in the middle decades of the 20th century. It was centered on the very special technology (information technology, as we call it now) that would in fact emerge and shape the world over the next two generations: central to the success of the vast, totalitarian empire was called the telescreen, a wall-sized panel display that could simultaneously send and receive images from each individual household to a hovering Big Brother. The telescreen was what permitted the vast centralization of social lift, for it allowed the government to banish privacy by motoring every word and deed over a massive network of wires.

[填空题]Orwell

[单项选择]George Orwell’s（）is considered as an anti-utopian novel.
A. Animal Farm
B. Nineteen Eighty-Four
C. Down and Out in Paris
D. The Road to Wigan War

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British people are far more sophisticated about beverages than they were 50 years ago. Witness the Starbucks revolution and you’ll know where (1) goes. However, spurred on by recent studies suggesting that it can cut the risk of (2) and retard the aging process, tea is enjoying a (3) .
Although tea is available in more places than ever, it remains to be (4) of a typical British family.
If you are invited to an English home, (5) in the morning you get a cup of tea. It is either brought in by a heartily (6) or an almost malevolently silent maid. When you are (7) in your sweetest morning sleep you must not say: "Go away, you (8) ." On the contrary, you have to declare with your best five o’clock smile. "Thank you very much. I (9) a cup of tea, especially in the morning." If they leave you alone with the liquid you may pour it (10) !
Then you have (11) ; then you have tea at 11 o’clock in the morning; (12) ; then you have