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Q17.
The cards are sold out … .
Q18.
The classical cards are popular … .
Q19.
The cards are a tradition at present … .
Q20.
The virtual cards have some advantages … .
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SUB-TEST 2:
READING
PART 3
Questions 21-30 are based on the following text.
Victor Gregg – British rifleman – An offer of a bun and a cup of hot tea sounded awfully good
to Victor Gregg on that raw London day in October 1937 – enticing enough to follow a
recruiter back to his office and sign up for the British Army. “It was my 18th birthday,”
recalls Gregg, now 100. “And you know, as far as I recall, I never did get that cup of tea.”
Instead, he got a harrowing front-row seat to World War II, from start to finish. After
qualifying as a marksman, Gregg was posted briefly to India and was serving in Palestine
when the war broke out in September 1939. He spent the next three years in the North
African desert, on covert missions behind enemy lines. Later he became a paratrooper and took part in the
invasion of Italy. In September 1944 he was dropped into the Battle of Arnhem – a failed Allied attempt to
secure a bridge over the Rhine River.
R.R. ‘Russell’ Clark – U.S. sailor – When a football injury left Russell Clark with a hernia, he
knew he’d be disqualified for military service. But 18-year-old Clark, born and raised on a
Kansas farm, was determined to join his two brothers at war. He paid for the operation to
correct his condition, then enlisted. By early 1945 Clark was somewhere in the North
Atlantic, working in the engine room of the destroyer escort U.S.S. Farquhar. “It was hot
and steamy down there – 100 degrees,” recalls Clark, 95. Despite the long, hot hours
belowdecks, Clark considered himself lucky. “The poor guys who had to be up on the deck
in the North Atlantic, they were mighty cold,” he says. His one brush with the enemy came the morning
after Germany’s surrender.
Wilhelm Simonsohn – German pilot – Guiding tanks and artillery to their targets from a
spotter plane, Wilhelm Simonsohn saw the German invasion of Poland in 1939 from high
above the fighting. From his perch, the first days of the war seemed like a great adventure.
All that changed when Simonsohn entered Warsaw. The Polish capital was in ruins,
shattered by German bombs. Thousands of people, mostly civilians, were killed in the
attack. Simonsohn, now 100, says he still remembers the smell of rotting bodies trapped
under the rubble. “It made such an impression on me that I said to myself, ‘I’ll never drop a
bomb on a human being.’ ” Instead he trained as a fighter pilot and flew dozens of night
missions, scrambling to intercept British bombers. “I flew with the idea that I’d prevent the English from
setting our cities on fire,” he says. “I was 22, and naive.”
Shizuyo Takeuchi – Japanese survivor – There’s no escaping her memories of February 25,
1945 – the day American B-29s fire-bombed Tokyo. Then 13, Shizuyo Takeuchi returned to
find cinders where her home had been. Only an iron rice pot survived. The forbidden
English dictionary, a gift from her father, was ash. She held a single page, which the wind
soon swept away. A second firebombing on March 10 left her with images of running
through a maelstrom of debris and smoke and passing charred bodies – one, a mother who
had tried to shield her infant beneath her. “I felt scared because I lost my emotions for a
time,” Takeuchi recalls.
Boris Smirnov – Soviet medic – “We were full of Soviet patriotism,” says Boris Smirnov, 93,
who saw many of his comrades die during the conflict the Soviets named the Great Patriotic
War. On one occasion, Smirnov’s platoon was building a bridge over the Neman River when
their commander was struck by a bullet, possibly from an enemy sniper. “As I tried to help
him, there was another soldier next to me,” Smirnov recalls. “He said, ‘Hey doctor, you help
him, and I’ll cover you.’ ” As the medic bandaged the fallen officer, a shot rang out from the
opposite bank, instantly killing the soldier standing watch over him. “He fell quietly,” says
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Smirnov, still grieved by his protector’s death. More traumatic was the day in October 1944 when
Smirnov’s platoon was surrounded and callously gunned down. “I saw the laughing German soldiers who
were sitting some 50 to 60 meters from us,” Smirnov says.
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