Passage 12

　　The man who brings my milk used to knock for his money for the week's milk while I was eating breakfast on Saturday morning. Just lately he has been arriving before I get up. Staff shortages mean that four men are sharing five rounds (递送路线), so he has to start earlier.
　　Delivering milk to people homes is scarcely good business, especially when the customer may have a choice of two or three firms serving a single road. In spite of the local difficulties,
However , labor troubles are not as severe as a few years ago. There are enough men prepared to get up early for the sake of an open -air job with a fair measure of freedom. If they did stop calling, women would find it hard work to collect all the milk they need from self-service stores. Dairies (乳品商) are aware that stopping deliveries in the United States resulted in falling sales.
　　Marketing ideas have included introducing extra lines, in addition to dairy products, which the milkmen can carry to increase sales. Already they have taken over many rounds given up by bakeries. One dairyman said: "It won't be long before the milkman delivers more bread than milk." Some milkmen deliver potatoes, and it seems as though variety will be limited only by the size of the vans.
　　So the milkman is likely to remain a familiar figure, and the dairy products he sells are unlikely to change very much in this decade. Flavored (调味) milk is popular on the Continent. In Britain those who like it buy plain milk and add their own flavoring. Even the returnable bottles continue to be used. As long as it had a reasonable life-30 to 40 trips are usual -the cost of collection and cleaning is worthwhile.

　　56. We are told that the milkman now sets out on his delivery rounds earlier than he used to
　　because of .
　　 A) an increased demand of milk
　　 B) more early-rising customers
　　 C) the need to collect money
　　 D) an increased workload
　　57. Milkmen's attempts to sell more bread from their delivery vans have meant that .
　　 A) Milkmen have taken over some bakery rounds.
　　 B) More bread than milk is now sold by milkman.
　　 C) People buy more bread from milkmen than from bakers.
　　 D) Bakeries are asking milkmen to deliver bread.
　　58. The passage indicates that during the next ten years or so, dairy firms will .
　　 A) gradually cease selling milk
　　 B) have to offer a wider variety
　　 C) take more notice of changes in customers' tastes
　　 D) produce the same kind of products
　　59. What does the last sentence in Paragraph 3 "…and it seems as though variety will be
　　limited only by the size of the vans" imply?
　　 A) The vans in which the milkmen deliver milk are too small.
　　 B) The milkmen complained about the variety of goods they deliver.
　　 C) If the vans allow, the milkmen can deliver a large variety of goods.
　　 D) The variety of things delivered by the milkmen will be limited in the future
　　60. Which of the following can be the title of the passage most suitably?
　　 A) The Variety of Delivering
　　 B) A Good Business: Delivering Milk
　　 C) Delivering Milk: the Present and Future
　　 D) Extra Lines in Milk-Delivering

　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　

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