【分析解答题】NHS chief praises fall in waiting list timesThe National Health Service could hit its most politically sensitive target early, Sir NigelCrisp, the NHS chief executive, said on Friday.In his most bullish annual report since taking office four years ago, Sir Nigel said waiting times were falling faster and further than ever before, quality was improving and services were being redesigne
D、And productivity — hard though it is to measure — was improving, he sai
D、"Something big is happening within the NHS," Sir Nigel said, as the government reported that it had reached its target in March with only 48 patients waiting more than nine months for an operation.The maximum wait for an out-patient appointment is down to 17 weeks from 21 weeks a year ago. Just over 40,000 are now waiting over 13 weeks for an appointment against 400,000 in March 2000. The service has also reduced by almost 60,000 the number of people waiting between six and nine months for in-patient procedures.The reduction seems to suggest that genuine changes are taking place in the way the NHS is organising services to make them more efficient — rather than simply achieving the shorter maximum waits by "tail-gunning" the end of the waiting list.What is as yet missing is robust data to show that average waits are also starting to fall significantly."Not only are we hitting all of our targets in order to speed up patient care, but by reforming the way we work we are also improving the quality of patients care," Sir Nigel sai
D、"The NHS is using the extra funding" — an extra ￡6bn. last year — "to good effect, with major improvements in quality and quantity".With extra capacity in treatment centres due to start coming online it was possible that the NHS would hit the target of having no-one wait for more than six months, once on a waiting list, ahead ofDecember next year. Although the figures are not as robust as those used to measure hospital activity, Sir Nigel said it was clear more treatment was being provided outside hospitals, in a quicker and more convenient way for patients. Evidence for that includes the number of patients referred to hospital by GPs remaining almost flat last year while a ￡21 million increase in the bill for modern drugs to counter heart failure has brought an estimated reduction of 20,000 hospital admissions.With a big government review under way on how to measure productivity in the public services, Sir Nigel said the NHS still lacked "an adequate way of measuring overall productivity", but indicated there were clear improvements in the productivity of individual services.
D、And productivity — hard though it is to measure — was improving, he sai
D、"Something big is happening within the NHS," Sir Nigel said, as the government reported that it had reached its target in March with only 48 patients waiting more than nine months for an operation.The maximum wait for an out-patient appointment is down to 17 weeks from 21 weeks a year ago. Just over 40,000 are now waiting over 13 weeks for an appointment against 400,000 in March 2000. The service has also reduced by almost 60,000 the number of people waiting between six and nine months for in-patient procedures.The reduction seems to suggest that genuine changes are taking place in the way the NHS is organising services to make them more efficient — rather than simply achieving the shorter maximum waits by "tail-gunning" the end of the waiting list.What is as yet missing is robust data to show that average waits are also starting to fall significantly."Not only are we hitting all of our targets in order to speed up patient care, but by reforming the way we work we are also improving the quality of patients care," Sir Nigel sai
D、"The NHS is using the extra funding" — an extra ￡6bn. last year — "to good effect, with major improvements in quality and quantity".With extra capacity in treatment centres due to start coming online it was possible that the NHS would hit the target of having no-one wait for more than six months, once on a waiting list, ahead ofDecember next year. Although the figures are not as robust as those used to measure hospital activity, Sir Nigel said it was clear more treatment was being provided outside hospitals, in a quicker and more convenient way for patients. Evidence for that includes the number of patients referred to hospital by GPs remaining almost flat last year while a ￡21 million increase in the bill for modern drugs to counter heart failure has brought an estimated reduction of 20,000 hospital admissions.With a big government review under way on how to measure productivity in the public services, Sir Nigel said the NHS still lacked "an adequate way of measuring overall productivity", but indicated there were clear improvements in the productivity of individual services.
【分析解答题】Open source’’s local heroesSoftware: If the commercial sort does not speak your language, open-source software may well do so insteadIts popularity is growing around the world, but open-source software has particular appeal in developing countries. InChina, South Korea, India,Brazil and other countries, governments are promoting the use of such software which, unlike the proprietary kind, allows users to inspect, modify and freely redistribute its underlying programming instructions. The open-source approach has a number of attractions.Adopting open-source software can reduce costs, allay security concerns and ensure there is no danger of becoming too dependent on a foreign supplier.But there is another benefit, too; because it can be freely modified, open-source software is also easier to translate, or localise, for use in a particular language. This involves translating the menus, dialogue boxes, help files, templates and message strings to create a new version of the software.Large software vendors have little incentive to support any but the most widely spoken languages. Microsoft, for example, provides its Windows 2000 operating system in 24 languages, and Windows XP in 33. The company also supports over 20 languages in the latest version of its Office software suite. Yet for many languages, commercial vendors conclude that producing a localised product is not economically viable.The programmers who produce open-source software operate by different rules, however. The leading desktop interfaces for the open-source Linux operating system — KD
E、and GNOME-are, between them, available in more than twice as many languages as Windows. KD
E、has already been localised for 42 languages, with a further 46 in the pipeline. Similarly, Mozilla, an open-source web browser, now speaks 65 languages, with 34 more to follow. Open Office, the leading open-source office suite, is available in 31 languages, including Slovenian,Basque and Galician, and Indian languages such as Gujarati,Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam.And another 44 languages including Icelandic, Lao, Latvian, Welsh and Yiddish are on the way.Localising software is a tedious job, but some people are passionate enough about it to resort to unusual measures. The Hungarian translation of Open Office was going too slowly for Janos Noll, founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Free Software. So he built some web-based tools to distribute the workload and threw a pizza party in the computer room at the Technical University ofBudapest. Over a dozen people worked locally, with about 100 Hungarians submitting work remotely over the weB、Most of the work — translating over 21,000 text strings — was completed in three days. DwayneBailey of translate, org. za, an open-source translation project based in SouthAfrica, says localising open-source programs into Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Sesotho and otherAfrican languages makes computers more accessible. With translated software, "these languages are suddenly players in the modern worl
D、" NevilleAlexander, a former SouthAfrican freedom-fighter, agrees. "AnEnglish-only or even anEnglish-mainly policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language," he says.
A、similar approach is being taken in India, where there are 18 official languages and over 1,000 regional dialects. Shikha Pillai is one of the leaders of a team inBangalore that is translating open-source software, including Open Office, into ten Indian dialects. She, too, feels that introducing Indian languages will help to foster a far deeper penetration of information technology. "Localisation makes IT accessible to common people," she says. "And Indian-language enabled software could revolutionise the way our communications work; even the way computers are used in Indi
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E、and GNOME-are, between them, available in more than twice as many languages as Windows. KD
E、has already been localised for 42 languages, with a further 46 in the pipeline. Similarly, Mozilla, an open-source web browser, now speaks 65 languages, with 34 more to follow. Open Office, the leading open-source office suite, is available in 31 languages, including Slovenian,Basque and Galician, and Indian languages such as Gujarati,Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam.And another 44 languages including Icelandic, Lao, Latvian, Welsh and Yiddish are on the way.Localising software is a tedious job, but some people are passionate enough about it to resort to unusual measures. The Hungarian translation of Open Office was going too slowly for Janos Noll, founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Free Software. So he built some web-based tools to distribute the workload and threw a pizza party in the computer room at the Technical University ofBudapest. Over a dozen people worked locally, with about 100 Hungarians submitting work remotely over the weB、Most of the work — translating over 21,000 text strings — was completed in three days. DwayneBailey of translate, org. za, an open-source translation project based in SouthAfrica, says localising open-source programs into Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Sesotho and otherAfrican languages makes computers more accessible. With translated software, "these languages are suddenly players in the modern worl
D、" NevilleAlexander, a former SouthAfrican freedom-fighter, agrees. "AnEnglish-only or even anEnglish-mainly policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language," he says.
A、similar approach is being taken in India, where there are 18 official languages and over 1,000 regional dialects. Shikha Pillai is one of the leaders of a team inBangalore that is translating open-source software, including Open Office, into ten Indian dialects. She, too, feels that introducing Indian languages will help to foster a far deeper penetration of information technology. "Localisation makes IT accessible to common people," she says. "And Indian-language enabled software could revolutionise the way our communications work; even the way computers are used in Indi
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【分析解答题】Open source’’s local heroesSoftware: If the commercial sort does not speak your language, open-source software may well do so insteadIts popularity is growing around the world, but open-source software has particular appeal in developing countries. InChina, South Korea, India,Brazil and other countries, governments are promoting the use of such software which, unlike the proprietary kind, allows users to inspect, modify and freely redistribute its underlying programming instructions. The open-source approach has a number of attractions.Adopting open-source software can reduce costs, allay security concerns and ensure there is no danger of becoming too dependent on a foreign supplier.But there is another benefit, too; because it can be freely modified, open-source software is also easier to translate, or localise, for use in a particular language. This involves translating the menus, dialogue boxes, help files, templates and message strings to create a new version of the software.Large software vendors have little incentive to support any but the most widely spoken languages. Microsoft, for example, provides its Windows 2000 operating system in 24 languages, and Windows XP in 33. The company also supports over 20 languages in the latest version of its Office software suite. Yet for many languages, commercial vendors conclude that producing a localised product is not economically viable.The programmers who produce open-source software operate by different rules, however. The leading desktop interfaces for the open-source Linux operating system — KD
E、and GNOME-are, between them, available in more than twice as many languages as Windows. KD
E、has already been localised for 42 languages, with a further 46 in the pipeline. Similarly, Mozilla, an open-source web browser, now speaks 65 languages, with 34 more to follow. Open Office, the leading open-source office suite, is available in 31 languages, including Slovenian,Basque and Galician, and Indian languages such as Gujarati,Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam.And another 44 languages including Icelandic, Lao, Latvian, Welsh and Yiddish are on the way.Localising software is a tedious job, but some people are passionate enough about it to resort to unusual measures. The Hungarian translation of Open Office was going too slowly for Janos Noll, founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Free Software. So he built some web-based tools to distribute the workload and threw a pizza party in the computer room at the Technical University ofBudapest. Over a dozen people worked locally, with about 100 Hungarians submitting work remotely over the weB、Most of the work — translating over 21,000 text strings — was completed in three days. DwayneBailey of translate, org. za, an open-source translation project based in SouthAfrica, says localising open-source programs into Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Sesotho and otherAfrican languages makes computers more accessible. With translated software, "these languages are suddenly players in the modern worl
D、" NevilleAlexander, a former SouthAfrican freedom-fighter, agrees. "AnEnglish-only or even anEnglish-mainly policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language," he says.
A、similar approach is being taken in India, where there are 18 official languages and over 1,000 regional dialects. Shikha Pillai is one of the leaders of a team inBangalore that is translating open-source software, including Open Office, into ten Indian dialects. She, too, feels that introducing Indian languages will help to foster a far deeper penetration of information technology. "Localisation makes IT accessible to common people," she says. "And Indian-language enabled software could revolutionise the way our communications work; even the way computers are used in Indi
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E、and GNOME-are, between them, available in more than twice as many languages as Windows. KD
E、has already been localised for 42 languages, with a further 46 in the pipeline. Similarly, Mozilla, an open-source web browser, now speaks 65 languages, with 34 more to follow. Open Office, the leading open-source office suite, is available in 31 languages, including Slovenian,Basque and Galician, and Indian languages such as Gujarati,Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam.And another 44 languages including Icelandic, Lao, Latvian, Welsh and Yiddish are on the way.Localising software is a tedious job, but some people are passionate enough about it to resort to unusual measures. The Hungarian translation of Open Office was going too slowly for Janos Noll, founder of the Hungarian Foundation for Free Software. So he built some web-based tools to distribute the workload and threw a pizza party in the computer room at the Technical University ofBudapest. Over a dozen people worked locally, with about 100 Hungarians submitting work remotely over the weB、Most of the work — translating over 21,000 text strings — was completed in three days. DwayneBailey of translate, org. za, an open-source translation project based in SouthAfrica, says localising open-source programs into Zulu, Xhosa, Venda, Sesotho and otherAfrican languages makes computers more accessible. With translated software, "these languages are suddenly players in the modern worl
D、" NevilleAlexander, a former SouthAfrican freedom-fighter, agrees. "AnEnglish-only or even anEnglish-mainly policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language," he says.
A、similar approach is being taken in India, where there are 18 official languages and over 1,000 regional dialects. Shikha Pillai is one of the leaders of a team inBangalore that is translating open-source software, including Open Office, into ten Indian dialects. She, too, feels that introducing Indian languages will help to foster a far deeper penetration of information technology. "Localisation makes IT accessible to common people," she says. "And Indian-language enabled software could revolutionise the way our communications work; even the way computers are used in Indi
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【分析解答题】The examiner will ask some more general questions which follow on from the topic in Part 2.
Do you think it’s harder to make decisions nowadays because we have so many choices
What are the disadvantages of asking for other people’s advice when making a decision
Why do you think some people are better at making decisions than others
Do you think children should be given the opportunity to make their own decisions What kind of decisions
Some people say we only learn by making mistakes.Do you agree
Do you think it’s harder to make decisions nowadays because we have so many choices
What are the disadvantages of asking for other people’s advice when making a decision
Why do you think some people are better at making decisions than others
Do you think children should be given the opportunity to make their own decisions What kind of decisions
Some people say we only learn by making mistakes.Do you agree
【分析解答题】The examiner asks the candidate about him/herself, his/her home, work or studies and other familiar topics.{{B}}EXAMPLE{{/B}}{{B}}Work{{/B}}·Do you work or arc you a student · What work do you do · What are your responsibilities at work · Would you like to change your job · How do you and your colleagues help each other at work ·Do you often get together with your colleagues after work {{B}}Family{{/B}}·Do you live alone or with other people · What jobs do the people in your immediate family do · What kind of things do you and your family do together · Who does the housework in your home {{B}}Festivals{{/B}}·Do you often celebrate festivals in your country ·Do these festivals have special meanings ·Are there any festivals special to your city or region · What special things do people do during festivals ·Do you celebrate any foreign festivals
【分析解答题】QuEstions 5-10
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【单选题】quEstions 1-8
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【分析解答题】MissBush plans to Sydney for (1) ____________.She has got (2) _____________ holiday after the conference.She wants go to (3) ____________ or (4) ____________or somewhere on the way back.She can exactly travel to (5) __________, Teheran, (6) __________,Athens.She decides to pay the (7) ____________fare.The cost will be ￡(8) ____________.
【分析解答题】NHS chief praises fall in waiting list timesThe National Health Service could hit its most politically sensitive target early, Sir NigelCrisp, the NHS chief executive, said on Friday.In his most bullish annual report since taking office four years ago, Sir Nigel said waiting times were falling faster and further than ever before, quality was improving and services were being redesigne
D、And productivity — hard though it is to measure — was improving, he sai
D、"Something big is happening within the NHS," Sir Nigel said, as the government reported that it had reached its target in March with only 48 patients waiting more than nine months for an operation.The maximum wait for an out-patient appointment is down to 17 weeks from 21 weeks a year ago. Just over 40,000 are now waiting over 13 weeks for an appointment against 400,000 in March 2000. The service has also reduced by almost 60,000 the number of people waiting between six and nine months for in-patient procedures.The reduction seems to suggest that genuine changes are taking place in the way the NHS is organising services to make them more efficient — rather than simply achieving the shorter maximum waits by "tail-gunning" the end of the waiting list.What is as yet missing is robust data to show that average waits are also starting to fall significantly."Not only are we hitting all of our targets in order to speed up patient care, but by reforming the way we work we are also improving the quality of patients care," Sir Nigel sai
D、"The NHS is using the extra funding" — an extra ￡6bn. last year — "to good effect, with major improvements in quality and quantity".With extra capacity in treatment centres due to start coming online it was possible that the NHS would hit the target of having no-one wait for more than six months, once on a waiting list, ahead ofDecember next year. Although the figures are not as robust as those used to measure hospital activity, Sir Nigel said it was clear more treatment was being provided outside hospitals, in a quicker and more convenient way for patients. Evidence for that includes the number of patients referred to hospital by GPs remaining almost flat last year while a ￡21 million increase in the bill for modern drugs to counter heart failure has brought an estimated reduction of 20,000 hospital admissions.With a big government review under way on how to measure productivity in the public services, Sir Nigel said the NHS still lacked "an adequate way of measuring overall productivity", but indicated there were clear improvements in the productivity of individual services.
D、And productivity — hard though it is to measure — was improving, he sai
D、"Something big is happening within the NHS," Sir Nigel said, as the government reported that it had reached its target in March with only 48 patients waiting more than nine months for an operation.The maximum wait for an out-patient appointment is down to 17 weeks from 21 weeks a year ago. Just over 40,000 are now waiting over 13 weeks for an appointment against 400,000 in March 2000. The service has also reduced by almost 60,000 the number of people waiting between six and nine months for in-patient procedures.The reduction seems to suggest that genuine changes are taking place in the way the NHS is organising services to make them more efficient — rather than simply achieving the shorter maximum waits by "tail-gunning" the end of the waiting list.What is as yet missing is robust data to show that average waits are also starting to fall significantly."Not only are we hitting all of our targets in order to speed up patient care, but by reforming the way we work we are also improving the quality of patients care," Sir Nigel sai
D、"The NHS is using the extra funding" — an extra ￡6bn. last year — "to good effect, with major improvements in quality and quantity".With extra capacity in treatment centres due to start coming online it was possible that the NHS would hit the target of having no-one wait for more than six months, once on a waiting list, ahead ofDecember next year. Although the figures are not as robust as those used to measure hospital activity, Sir Nigel said it was clear more treatment was being provided outside hospitals, in a quicker and more convenient way for patients. Evidence for that includes the number of patients referred to hospital by GPs remaining almost flat last year while a ￡21 million increase in the bill for modern drugs to counter heart failure has brought an estimated reduction of 20,000 hospital admissions.With a big government review under way on how to measure productivity in the public services, Sir Nigel said the NHS still lacked "an adequate way of measuring overall productivity", but indicated there were clear improvements in the productivity of individual services.
【分析解答题】In search of an election Beppe Severgnini, an Italian correspondent and a columnist, finds some people quite enjoying the campaign, and some quite unaware of it.When it opened in 1914, theAdelphi was one of the greatest hotels in the worlD、With solid marble walls, indoor swimming pool, full central heating in all rooms, it was Liverpool’’s arrival and departure point for passengers on the great liners toAmeric
A、People are busy, around here, tonight. There is the graduation ball for Hope University , a convention of church — bell players and a Welsh football team that decided there was no point in waiting for the match in order to celebrate, so they sing and hug each other in the lobby. Not only are these people ignorant of Harold Wilson’’s sojourn in the hotel, but most seem oblivious to the fact that a general election is only days away.The last time I was in Liverpool,Derek Hatton’’s Trotskyite militants were running the city council in the 1980s. Mr Hatton, for all his faults, inflamed Liverpudlians, who love a good argument. "Souses are like Neapolitans. Great sense of humour, laid-back attitude, maybe not the hardest-working people in the world," saysAlbertoBertali, an Italian who runs a big factory making household appliances, loves the city and wouldn’’t want to live anywhere else.
A、real Neapolitan-Alfredo Oliva, an architect who moved to Liverpool "per amore" and now walks around camouflaged in an Italian flag as the cook of theAdelphi’’s pizzeria-disagrees. "Until today, I didn’’t even know there was an election coming up. In Naples, and all over Italy, people are at each other’’s throat, before a big vote. That’’s gooD、That’’s how you make up your minD、"Maybe people in this city have made up their minds already, and that’’s why they don’’t bother with politics. They prefer to walk around in the drizzle, pretending it is spring.Boys in bright red Liverpool FC、jerseys , girls in what looks like their underwear, but turns out to be an evening dress. Their Labour MPs enjoy huge majorities. Jane Kennedy, in Liverpool Weavertree, has almost 20,000. Peter Kilfoyle , in inner-city Liverpool Walton (home of the two football clubs,Everton and Liverpool), 27,000. LouiseEllman , in Liverpool Riverside, which includes poor and volatile Tox-teth, 22,000.Bob Wareing , in Liverpool WestDerby, 26,000. Stan Jones, the organiser for the local Labour Party, asks whom I would like to meet. I go for MsEllman and Mr. Wareing. MsEllman is a nice lady with piercing green eyes, and no illusion. Her constituency has one of the lowest turnouts in the country. "Young people are not interested, they don’’t feel connecteD、Four out of five are not going to vote. Older people talk to me about their everyday problems. One lady told me: ’’If you don’’t fix my shower, I won’’t vote for you’’. "WallyEdwards, a former aide to Harold Wilson, is expecting me. He is happy to talk about his days in the navy, and his encounter with the future prime minister, in 1945, in the SheftonArms puB、He tells me he’’s got two daughters married to Italians, who live in Tuscany. "What do they think about SilvioBerlusconi becoming prime minister " I ask. "Not happy," Wally says. "But I told them: ’’Come on, girls.At least you had got a couple of nice hammers-and-sickles on your Italian ballot papers. ’’ Some working-class element, I mean. "Mr.Edwards says he "is not much of aBlairite".But he works for the common cause. This morning, he must brief a group of volunteers who are about to deliver leaflets in the are
A、They leave the LabourClub with a shoulder bag that says: "Taking the Lead inEurope". I ask them ifEurope is a big issue, in this campaign. "No, it isn’’t.But the bags were left over from theEuropean election. "While we drive, they are in a good mooD、"You seem to enjoy putting leaflets into letter-boxes," I say. They laugh: "It is not so much putting ours in that we like. It is taking the L
A、People are busy, around here, tonight. There is the graduation ball for Hope University , a convention of church — bell players and a Welsh football team that decided there was no point in waiting for the match in order to celebrate, so they sing and hug each other in the lobby. Not only are these people ignorant of Harold Wilson’’s sojourn in the hotel, but most seem oblivious to the fact that a general election is only days away.The last time I was in Liverpool,Derek Hatton’’s Trotskyite militants were running the city council in the 1980s. Mr Hatton, for all his faults, inflamed Liverpudlians, who love a good argument. "Souses are like Neapolitans. Great sense of humour, laid-back attitude, maybe not the hardest-working people in the world," saysAlbertoBertali, an Italian who runs a big factory making household appliances, loves the city and wouldn’’t want to live anywhere else.
A、real Neapolitan-Alfredo Oliva, an architect who moved to Liverpool "per amore" and now walks around camouflaged in an Italian flag as the cook of theAdelphi’’s pizzeria-disagrees. "Until today, I didn’’t even know there was an election coming up. In Naples, and all over Italy, people are at each other’’s throat, before a big vote. That’’s gooD、That’’s how you make up your minD、"Maybe people in this city have made up their minds already, and that’’s why they don’’t bother with politics. They prefer to walk around in the drizzle, pretending it is spring.Boys in bright red Liverpool FC、jerseys , girls in what looks like their underwear, but turns out to be an evening dress. Their Labour MPs enjoy huge majorities. Jane Kennedy, in Liverpool Weavertree, has almost 20,000. Peter Kilfoyle , in inner-city Liverpool Walton (home of the two football clubs,Everton and Liverpool), 27,000. LouiseEllman , in Liverpool Riverside, which includes poor and volatile Tox-teth, 22,000.Bob Wareing , in Liverpool WestDerby, 26,000. Stan Jones, the organiser for the local Labour Party, asks whom I would like to meet. I go for MsEllman and Mr. Wareing. MsEllman is a nice lady with piercing green eyes, and no illusion. Her constituency has one of the lowest turnouts in the country. "Young people are not interested, they don’’t feel connecteD、Four out of five are not going to vote. Older people talk to me about their everyday problems. One lady told me: ’’If you don’’t fix my shower, I won’’t vote for you’’. "WallyEdwards, a former aide to Harold Wilson, is expecting me. He is happy to talk about his days in the navy, and his encounter with the future prime minister, in 1945, in the SheftonArms puB、He tells me he’’s got two daughters married to Italians, who live in Tuscany. "What do they think about SilvioBerlusconi becoming prime minister " I ask. "Not happy," Wally says. "But I told them: ’’Come on, girls.At least you had got a couple of nice hammers-and-sickles on your Italian ballot papers. ’’ Some working-class element, I mean. "Mr.Edwards says he "is not much of aBlairite".But he works for the common cause. This morning, he must brief a group of volunteers who are about to deliver leaflets in the are
A、They leave the LabourClub with a shoulder bag that says: "Taking the Lead inEurope". I ask them ifEurope is a big issue, in this campaign. "No, it isn’’t.But the bags were left over from theEuropean election. "While we drive, they are in a good mooD、"You seem to enjoy putting leaflets into letter-boxes," I say. They laugh: "It is not so much putting ours in that we like. It is taking the L
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