单选题
What is the most appropriate title for the passage?
a. The Future of Sugar Industry in Central America
b. Unemployment in Latin America
c. Reforms in Sugar Industry in North America
d. The Impact of the Declining Sugar Industry
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]21-25
In early September, Trinidad's state-owned sugar company made all of its 9,200 employees redundant. Though most are Indo-Trinidadians and supporters of the island's truculent opposition party, there were no protests. The workers got redundancy pay totaling 115 million dollars, the offer of retraining, and the chance to continue growing cane as independent farmers in plots on the company's 31,000 hectares of farmland.
Trinidad, booming on oil and gas, has plenty of new jobs. Jamaica's stagnant economy is another story. The government privatized its sugar factories in 1994, but agreed to take them back four years later. Hit by floods and droughts, this year's sugar crop was a disaster. A shutdown might be greeted with riots by the 7,000 sugar workers and 8,000 cane farmers of the country. Barbados, prosperous and stable, has a different problem. Its neat cane fields are far more attractive to tourists than the eroded scrubland of Antigua, which stopped growing sugar 30 years ago.
21. What is the most appropriate title for the passage?
[分析] 主旨题。
给文章定合适的标题，需要选项中关键词恰当概括原文。选项a中，future的内容，本文没有涉及；选项b中unemployment的内容只在原文谈到Trinidad和Jamaica这两个国家的情况时有所涉及，因此并不能概括全文；选项c中reform的内容也不能概括Trinidad的情况；而选项d的impact和declining则全面概括厂全文。该篇文章分别介绍了制糖业衰退给几个国家带来的各种影响。因此，选项d是正确的。
[解题关键] 把握文章主体结构，将各选项的关键词与之对照选出答案。
单选题
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Trinidadian workers who were made jobless in early September?
a. They held protests against the government on the street.
b. They became independent cane farmers.
c. They were compensated with a total of 115 million dollars.
d. They were given the chance of retraining for new job careers.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Trinidadian workers who were made jobless in early September?
[分析] 事实细节的找寻和判断。
原文第一段谈到糖产业衰退给Trinidad带来影响，使该国9,200雇员失业时说“...there were no protests”，由此可见，选项a的内容与原文不相符，因此该项是正确答案。
[解题关键] 根据题干关键词找到原文中相关信息。
单选题
What happened to Jamaica's sugar factories in the 1990s?
a. They witnessed unsuccessful reforms.
b. They went bankrupt due to crop failure.
c. They suffered from inefficient production.
d. They failed due to a shortage of labor supply.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[听力原文]
What happened to Jamaica's sugar factories in the 1990s?
[分析] 事实细节的找寻和判断。
根据题干信息找到相关的原文第二段第四、五句发现，该国对制糖业改革以后，结果是天灾(洪水和干旱使糖作物面临灾难)、人祸(工厂倒闭会使工人暴动)，由此可判断，该国的改革并不成功。因此，选项a的内容符合题意，是正确答案。
[解题关键] 正确对原文关键词进行总结，如将原文floods and droughts， disaster，shutdown，riots等词可总结为unsuccessful reform。
单选题
What is happening to Barbados's sugar industry?
a. It is prosperous and stable.
b. It has vast expanses of deserted cane fields.
c. It uses cane fields as tourist attractions.
d. It stopped growing sugar 30 years ago.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[听力原文]
What is happening to Barbados's sugar industry?
[分析] 事实细节的找寻和判断。
根据题干找到原文中关于Barbados的信息，可知“Its neat cane fields are far more attractive to tourists than the eroded scrubland of Antigua...”即“与Antigua侵蚀的灌木林地相比，Barbados齐整的甘蔗地对旅游者更具吸引力”，显然，Barbados已经把廿蔗地当作旅游项目。因此，选项c的说法是正确的。
[解题关键] 掌握由单词词性变化而产生的句子表达方式的变化，原文中attractive变为attraction；tourist变为tourism。
单选题
Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
a. The sugar industry varies in prosperity among producing countries in Latin America.
b. World sugar producers all suffer from short supply of canes.
c. The world sugar industry is undergoing fatal depression.
d. Major sugar producers have adopted different strategies to combat the sluggish economy.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Which of the following statements best summarizes the main idea of the passage?
[分析] 主旨题。
题干要求掌握本文的主要内容。这需要应试者能够把握文章的脉络结构。本文从始至终没有主题句，只是介绍了Trinidad，Jamaica，Barbados和Antigua几个国家面临制糖业衰退时采取的各种措施，将其大意概括，发现选项 d的内容与原文相符，因此该项是正确的。
[解题关键] 正确掌握文章的主要内容是解题的关键。