单选题
According to the passage, what has made America"s system of higher education a great success?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析]
The decentralization, diversity, academic freedom and shared governance that have evolved over the past two centuries have made America"s system of higher education one of the most accessible and democratic in the world. Today educators from around the globe are turning to U.S. institutions of higher learning for inspiration.
[分析] 因果关系的判断。
根据原文可知“the decentralization, diversity, academic freedom and shared governance”使得美国高等教育体系成为世界上最易接近、最民主的教育体系。由此可见,只有选项D的内容符合这一逻辑关系。
[解题关键] 近义词替换。此题能够正确找到原文相关处的关键是理解题干中a great success与原文the most accessible and democratic意思相近。
单选题
What has happened to the capital flow into the emerging market economies?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析]
Recent years have seen a dramatic shift in the composition of capital flow to emerging market economies. In light of the evidence on the advantages of different kinds of capital, the change looks like one for the better. Bank lending has fallen sharply. Portfolio investment has gone up and foreign direct investment has soared despite the difficulties in expanding it as quickly as many countries would wish.
[分析] 事实细节的找寻和判断。
原文认为资本向正在出现的市场经济流动的构成出现巨大变化,而后列举三方面事实细节(bank lending, portfolio investment, foreign direct investment)予以说明,将题干中相关信息与原文对照,可发现只有选项C的说法与原文相符。
[解题关键] 同义词替换。原文中has gone up与选项中increased同义。
单选题
The blacks who received Nobel Prizes for Literature are
______
.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析]
November not only marks the publication of Toni Morrison"s eagerly anticipated eighth novel, Love, but it is also the tenth anniversary of her Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison is the first black woman to receive a Nobel Prize, precedented in literature by only two black men: Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian playwright, poet and novelist, in 1986; and Dereck Walcott, the Caribbean-born poet, in 1992. But Morrison is also the first and only American-born Nobel laureate for literature since 1962, the year novelist John Steinbeck received the award.
[分析] 特定信息的找寻和判断。
本段落人名等专有名词较多。本题要求根据题干中的关键词,回原文找寻获诺贝尔文学奖的黑人姓名,将听力材料中其它无关的专有名词干扰项排除后,可知只有选项C的说法是正确的。
[解题关键] 根据要求迅速排除干扰项的影响。
单选题
Why did Israelis prefer the "Red-Dead" canal to the "Med-Dead" proposal?
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析]
At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg over a year ago, Israel and Jordan agreed to look into building a "Red-Dead" pipeline that would run 320 km along their rugged desert border. Dubbed the "Peace Conduit", the canal would be the biggest Israel-Jordanian joint venture since their 1994 peace treaty. Israeli officials cite the importance of cooperation with former Arab enemies as one of the main reasons they favor the Red-Dead canal over an older "Med-Dead" proposal to take water from the Mediterranean Sea, which would not involve Jordan.
[分析] 因果关系的判断。
根据题干中关键词the“Red-Dead”canal和“Med-Dead”proposal可定位原文相关部分为“Israeli officials cite the importance of cooperation with former Arab enemies as one of the main reasons they favor the Red-Dead canal over an older "Med-Dead" proposal…”,其中信号词“reasons”说明该词前后部分为因果关系,既然该词后部分为题干内容,显然该词前部分的内容应为正确答案。因此,选项A的说法是正确的。
[解题关键] 掌握通过信号词正确判断语义逻辑关系,如通过原文reason可判断出其上下文的因果关系。
单选题
What does Dr. Kay believe?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析]
More than 10 months after the end of major military operations in Iraq, American teams have still not found conclusive evidence that Iraq had any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, raising doubts about one of the Bush administration"s main arguments for going to war. Since he resigned from his post last month, Dr. Kay has said he believes that Iraq largely abandoned the production of weapons of mass destruction after the first Gulf War, and that it gradually destroyed its remaining, stockpiles during the 1990"s.
[分析] 特定信息的找寻和判断。
根据题干中关键词Dr. Kay,在原文中找寻与其相关的特定信息,可发现原文相关部分为“Dr. Kay has said he believes that Iraq largely abandoned the production of weapons of mass destruction after the first, Gulf War, and that it gradually destroyed its remaining stockpiles during the 1990"s.”只有选项C和D的内容与其相关,但选项C中“were destroyed”与原文“abandoned”含义不相符,而选项D的内容则是正确的。
[解题关键] 近义词辨析,如选项中destroy(毁灭)和原文abandon(放弃)的含义是不同的。