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Part V Reading Comprehension (25 minutes, 40 points) Section A Multiple Choice (5 points) Directions: There is one passage in this section with 5 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage. I was dirty, smelly, hungry and somewhere beneath all that, suntanned. It was the end of an Inter-Rail holiday. My body couldn’t take any more punishment. My mind couldn’t deal with any more foreign timetables, currencies or languages. 注释： 1. smelly有使人难受的气味的，臭的。 2.suntanned给太阳晒黑的。 3. punishment惩罚。 4. deal with处理。 5.timetables时间表。 “Never again,” I said, as I stepped onto home ground. I said exactly the same thing the following year. And the next. All I had to do was buy one train ticket and, because I was under twenty-five years old, I could spend a whole month going anywhere I wanted in Europe. Ordinary beds are never the same once you’ve learnt to sleep in the corridor of a train, the rhythm rocking you into a deep sleep. 注释： 1.home ground 2. rhythm节奏，韵律。 3. rock摇摆，摇动。 Carrying all your possessions on your back in a rucksack makes you have a very basic approach to travel, and encourages incredible wastefulness that can lead to burning socks that have become too anti-social, and getting rid of books when finished. On the other hand, this way of looking at life is entirely in the spirit of Inter-Rail, for common sense and reasoning can be thrown out of the window along with the paperback book and the socks. All it takes to achieve this carefree attitude is one of those tickets in your hand. 注释： 1.possessions财产。 2.rucksack帆布背包。 3.approach方法，步骤，途径。 4.incredible难以置信的，不可思议的。 5.lead to导致。 6.burning socks 7.anti-social不擅社交的，非社交的，反社会的。 8.in the spirit of以…的精神、态度。 9.common sense常识。 10. reasoning推理。 11.carefree attitude无所谓的态度。 Any system that enables young people to tra