C. the lunch time is short and their office is far from home
D. they don’t like to go back home for lunch
57. The sort of food one can get in a staff canteen is usually _____.
A. simple and plentiful
B. plentiful and there are various choices
C. not charged
D. of poor quality
58.The phrase “every area that is not purely residential” probably means _____.
A. a part of a town where no one lives
B. a part of a town where people work rather than live
C. the business area of a town
D. a part of a town where there are a lot of restaurants
59. In many popular cafés, customers have to _____.
A. take away their food
B. pay their lunch after they eat
C. wait for the service of waiters
D. help themselves to fetch the dishes
60. Some people have a quick meal in the office because _____.
A. they bring their own sandwiches
B. they like queuing in the office to make a cup of tea
C. they want to save time and save money
D. they want to eat with their colleagues
Passage 2
We spend our leisure hours efficiently for higher production, live by the clock even when time does not matter, modernize our homes and speed the machinery of living in order that we can go to the most places and do the most things in the shortest period of time possible. We try to eat, sleep and talk efficiently.
Even on holidays and Sundays, the efficient man relaxes on timetable with one eye on the clock and the other on an appointment sheet.
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of movie and put culture in pocketsized package. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-a-minute and the great Efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy, when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it. But that of course would not be efficient; and we Americans must be efficient.
61. The phrase that best expresses the main idea of this passage is _____.
A. “the modern pace”
B. “our interest in shortened opera”
C. “how to make the best use of leisure time”
D. “planning our time scientifically”
62. The passage tells us that _____.
A. Americans are forced to be efficient against their will
B. Americans should do what they are willing to do
C. people ought not to work so hard for efficiency
D. Americans are at a loss what to do
63. According to the passage, which of the following is a necessity?
A. Shortened opera performances.
B. Quickened paces of movies.
C. Speeded-up work efficiency.
D. Working on holidays.
64. The “pleasant day” to which the author refers was the period when we _____.
A. did not feel guilty about wasting time
B. were able to act on our own will
C. seemed to have better weather
D. did not have so many enemies
65. The word “sluggard” in the third paragraph means _____.
A. a slow-moving person
B. a hard worker
C. a human being
D. an enemy
五、 单词或短语的英汉互译（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
（一）将下列词语译成中文 （5分）
66. indirect tax
