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Our Summer Pix 16 competition has been on for a week and we have already had hundreds of entries( 参赛作品 ) . Keep the entries coming in: the contest still runs for three more weeks. So seize the moment and join us now!

How to enter

Terms & conditions

●The photos must be taken this summer?

●5 photographs may be submitted by any individual person at most?

●Employees of The Irish Times and their families or other persons connected with the organizer are not suitable to enter?

●All entries without an e-mail address are disqualified?

●By handing in your photograph, yogive The Irish Times the right to use your photograph to promote the competition within the newspaper and online in printed and electronic formats. The Irish Times may also use the photograph for the promotion of any other photographic competition with The Irish Times both in print and online?

21. How long does the contest last in all?

A. Only a week. B. Two weeks. C. Three weeks. D. Four weeks?

22. What will a winner of the competition enjoy?

C. A Sony digital D. A job offer from the organizer?

23. Which may meet Terms & conditions ?

A. Anyone has access to the competition?

B. Over 5 photos can be submitted by any person?

C. Entries without e-mail addresses are not accepted?

D. Yocan send pictures taken at any time?

24. What can The Irish Times use participants’ photos to do?

A. Promote itself as a better newspaper?

B. Advertise other photographic competitions?

C. Display all of the photos each Friday?

D. Sell the photos for money?B

Everyone seems to be living for someone else.

I had once helped a friend run a watermelon stall. I noticed something interesting: almost every buyer would lift the melon up to their ear, and tap it, apparently trying to listen to something. I wondered what they expected to hear. Finally I could no longer hold back my curiosity and asked a customer— an elderly gentleman— about this. Hearing my question, he roared with laughter. Then he replied in a self-mocking(自嘲) tone, “ Young lady, I have been doing this for more than fifty years. But all I know is that everybody would stare at yoas if yowere a fool if yojust pick up a melon and leave! ”

Not long after that, my watermelon stall friend sent me an invitation to her wedding, which really surprised me. I asked her, “ Why are yoseized by a sudden desire to get married? I don’ t remember ever hearing yomention that you’ ve got a boyfriend. ” She answered while counting money, “ Everyone has to get married anyway, so it is better to get married sooner than later. ”

I could think of no word to refute(反驳) her. It seems that everybody is living for everybody else and has forgotten the need of their own heart. It may be safe and save a lot of worries by following others’ suit in doing things. The use of WE or US will give one a steady and sure sense of pride. But why do people usually feel uneasy when using “ I” ? ?

I find all these things somewhat funny. We have got used to following others’ example. We feel at ease and justified simply because this is a way of US, a way which has been practiced by so many people. But is this massive practice really right?

25. Why did the elderly gentleman tap the watermelon before buying it?

A. Because he expected to hear something?

B. Because he was a fool?

C. Because he just wanted to follow the crowd?

D. Because it was his habit and it was hard for him to give it up ?

26. Which word can replace the underlined word“ justified” in the last paragraph?

A. reasonable B. embarrassed C. excited D. disappointed

27. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. It may be safe to do what most people do?

B. People should live for others and forget their own heart?

C. The writer felt unexpected when her friend wanted to get married?