Direction: In this part, there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer.
Passage 1
Perhaps no other institution reflects the relaxed Italian lifestyle as much as the ubiquitous cafe (or bar, as it is called in Italy). From village emporia with three tin tables where the blackhated pensioners perpetually argue the Sunday soccer results, to the sprawling outdoor drawing rooms of Venices Piazza San Marco, life slows to a sitandsip. Italians order Campari or cappuccino and put the world on hold. Inside, Italian cafes are for receiving friends and suitors, reading the paper, and writing the great Calabrian novel. Some regulars even get their mail at their local cafe. Outside, in summer, the cafe is for appraising the spectacle.
CUCCHI, Milan: Sip your Bellini (fresh peach juice and champagne) outdoors in the summer and eye the Armaniclad executives who have maneuvered Italy into one of the top economic slots in the world. Nurse a Negroni ( red vermouth and gin ) indoors in the winter amidst the pink velvet and chandeliers preserved from the 1930s when most Milano came here to dance. Or time your visit for 7∶45 AM to sample brioche fresh from the oven.
PEDROCCHI, Padua: This sedate gathering place in the center of Padua, built in 1831 long before Italy became a unified state, once reverberated with revolutionary patriotic fervor, and its three roomsopen from dawn until after midnight — are still painted red, white, and green like the Italian flag. A bullet hole in the wall of the White is a cherished reminder of the 1848 student uprising against the citys Austrian rulers. Earnest young people come to the Green to study, talk, and celebrate graduation from the nearby university. The Red? Its where local businesspeople, intent on their double espresso, plot to preserve the status quo.
RONEY, Palermo: The best standup food in Sicily is served at one end of its immense bar; at the other, a hundred different sweets, including the islands spacious tent — like pavilion outdoors; patrons lean back in their wicker chairs, look out on the treelined avenue, and ponder the mystery of Palermo. How can a city whose per capita income is one of Italys lowest be among the countrys top ten consumers? The answer — the rumor is that its hidden Mafia money — may give people watching in this cafe an added dimension.
SAN MARCO, Trieste: with its newspapers draped over bamboo poles, its card tables surrounded by intent retired government employees, its corners occupied by solitary readers and scribblers, this holdover of preWorld War I days, when Trieste had 56 coffeehouses, was like something out of the late great AustroHungarian Empire. People regularly met and chatted with friends here as if it were their own living room. A sprightly refurbishing has lightened the mood, but the friendly ghosts linger.
1. What can you do in winter in CUCCHI？
A. Sip your Bellini outdoors.B. Nurse a Negroni.
C. Reading fashionable magazine.D. Enjoy classic music.
2. What is the spectacle of Pedrocchi？
A. It wits the history of Italy.
B. The style is excessive ornate.
C. It appealed to most of college students and business men nearby.
D. The ornament seemed out of date.
3. Roney in Palermo supply .
I. best standup foodII. particularly black and potent espresso
III. a hundred different sweets
A. I and IIB. I and IIIC. I, II and IIID. only II
4. What spectacle do Pedrocchi and San Marco possess in common?
A. Both of them are traditional ones, witch can trace to the early days.
B. They supply typical sweets of Italy.
C. They are both located in the biggest cities whose per capita income is Italys highest.
D. Mafia money was accumulated in the two cities.
5. According to the passage, which is not the reason that make Italian, or even visitors from every corner of world, fond of enjoying themselves in cafes.
A. relaxed circumstance, culture and history it preserved
