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PAGE 865 zong he-a To Have and Have Not（阅读） 　　It had been boring hanging about the hotel all afternoon. Why did the writer want to leave the hotel? To have a change of scene. What attracted the writer to the shop? The light coming from inside. The writer found the stock in the front of the shop of top quality What was unusual about the way the woman looked at him? She seemed to know him well. The writer disliked the back room because he saw nothing he really liked Going Her Own Way 　　When she was twelve, Maria made her first important decision about the course of her life. Maria wanted to attend technical high school In those days, most Italian girls did not go to high school You can infer from this passage that only boys usually attended technical schools Maria’s father probably had very traditional views about women High school teachers in Italy In those days were quite strict Pop Music in Africa Young musicians in African countries are creating a new kind of pop music. 1. This passage is about how African pop music is more serious than most pop music. 2. For people outside of Africa, African pop music is both familiar and different. 3. The musicians mentioned in this passage all write about serious problems. 4. Eric Wainaina studied music in Boston. 5. Witness Mwaijaga writes about the problem of women partly because she was had a difficult life herself. Why So Many Children? In many of the developing countries in Africa and Asia 1. In a traditional agricultural economy, a large family can be an advantage. 2. When countries become industrialized, the birth rate generally goes down. 3. According to this passage, Italy today is an example of an industrialized country with a low birth rate. 4. Saudi Arabia is mentioned in the passage because it shows that factors o