单选题 {{B}}Passage Two{{/B}}

Hazardous products are being pushed on the Third World in increasing volume. There are many examples of these: pharmaceutical (处方的) drugs, contraceptives (避孕药) and pesticides banned years ago in Europe, America, or Japan but sold by companies of these same countries to the Third World; cigarettes with a far higher tar(焦油) and nicotine contents than in the rich countries. The health effects on Third World peoples are terrible.
The hazardous technologies and products imported from the industrialized countries often displace local technologies and products that may be more appropriate to meet the production and consumption needs of the Third World. Labor intensive technologies that provide employment for the community and are in harmony with the environment are replaced with capital intensive modern technologies that in many instances are ecologically destructive. Appropriate products are replaced by modem products that are thrust upon the people through high powered advertising, sales promotions and pricing policy.
The modem industrial system has changed the face of Third World agriculture. In many Third World societies, under the new plantation system, much of the lands formerly planted with traditional food crops have been converted into cash-crop production for export. If export prices are high, the incomes obtained could be higher for export-crop farmers; but when prices fall, as they have in recent years, the farmers are not able to buy enough food with their incomes, and also many agricultural workers lose their jobs. The so-called Green Revolution is a package program that makes it possible to grow more than one crop per year through the introduction of high-yielding seed varieties, high doses of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, agricultural machinery and irrigation.
In many areas where this "revolution" wa9 implemented, there was an initial rise in production because more than a single crop could be produced in a year. But the corresponding rise in farmer's incomes was soon offset by the increasing costs of imported chemical inputs and machinery as high- input agriculture only favored richer farmers who could afford to pay for the chemicals and drive out poorer farmers who could not. In addition, the high-yielding crop varieties are very susceptible to pest attacks as insects become resistant to the pesticides. Yields in some areas have dropped. Third World farmers and governments win Increasingly be at the mercy of the transnational food companies.

单选题 What is the main idea of paragraph 1?

单选题 In paragraph 2, the first sentence means ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的paragraph 2，the first sentence定位到原文第二段首句。 [精析] 题干问的是该句的含义。注意做题时应该理清句子结构，这样更能理解句子。原句中that引导的定语从句修饰的先行词是local technologies and products，由此可知，实际上这种被取代(displace)的本地技术与产品才是最适合第三世界国家国情的。故D)与之相符，为正确答案。 [排除干扰] A)在该句未提及，故排除；B)为该句的同义转述，并非该句真实含义，故排除；C)项含义与该句含义相悖，故排除。

单选题 What will cause agricultural workers to lose their jobs?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的agricultural workers losing their jobs定位到原文第三段第三句...and also many agricultural workers lose their jobs． [精析] 题干问的是什么会导致农业工人失业。联系定位句上下文，可以在前文找到The modern industrial system has changed the...under the new plantation system...其中The modem industrial system和 the new plantation system均与下文The so-called Green Revolution的内涵吻合，故C)“绿色革命”为正确答案。 [排除干扰] 其他三项与原文所述不符，排除。

单选题 What is the author's opinion about the so-called Green Revolution?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的Revolution可以定位到原文第四段开头部分。 [精析] 题干问的是作者对所谓的“绿色革命”的看法。在原文第四段讲到施行绿色革命的地区有an initial rise in production，但增长却很快被高投资抵消“soon offset by the increasing costs”，同时还给当地人民带来很大的经济负担，故B)It is useful but sometimes causes problems含义与之相符，为正确答案。 [排除干扰] 文中指出“绿色革命”有利也有弊，并未提及A)“可能种植更多的作物”、C)“能解决粮食紧缺问题”、D)“回报多但投入也大”三项具体结果，故排除。

单选题 We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[定位] 由题干中的the last paragraph定位到原文末段。 [精析] 题干问的是从文章末段可以推断出什么。由原文high-input agriculture only favored richer farmers who could afford to pay for the chemicals and drive out poorer farmers who could not可以推断出， A)“富农更富，贫民愈穷”含义与之相符，故为正确答案。 [排除干扰] 由原文But the corresponding rise in farmers incomes was soon offset by the increasing costs of imported chemical inputs and machinery...可推断B)“农民的收入将随着进口更多农药和机械而增加”错误，故排除，其中offset为“抵消”的意思，而非增长；由原文“drive out poorer farmers”推测C)“高投入型农业会使富农贫农双受益”错误，贫穷的农民不会受益，故排除；D)“第三世界对跨国粮食公司报以同情”是对原文Third World farmers and governments, will increasingly be at the mercy of the transnational food companies的逻辑颠倒和误解，这里at the mercy of是指“受支配”，并非同情的意思，故排除。