单选题
MALAYSIA is agog with speculation. The government,
which charged a sitting minister and a prominent businessman with corruption
earlier this month, says it has a list of 18 other high-profile suspects due for
similar treatment. Opposition politicians say that Rafidah Aziz, the minister of
trade, should be among them. She denies any wrong-doing and says she will sue
her critics for defamation—a threat they claim to welcome as a chance to prove
their accusations in court. Is the pervasiveness of corruption, a problem common
to most countries in South-East Asia, at last getting a proper airing?
The region is certainly awash with celebrated corruption cases. Joseph
Estrada, the deposed president of the Philippines, is currently on trial for
"economic plunder". On February 12th, Indonesia's supreme court finally ruled on
a long-running embezzlement case against Akbar Tandjung, the speaker of
parliament. In 2001, Thailand's constitutional court heard charges that Thaksin
Shinawatra, the prime minister, had concealed some assets during an earlier
stint as minister. But there is less to this flurry of
righteousness than meeting the eye. For starters, prosecutors have not had much
success against grand defendants like Messrs Thaksin and Tandjung. Both
persuaded higher courts in overturn earlier rulings against them. Mr. Estrada,
too, managed to evade impeachment while in office, and prosecutors are making
heavy weather of their current case against him. Even the convicted Mr.
Rakkiat has not yet begun his prison term, since he jumped bail and went into
hiding. What is more, all the countries in the region save Singapore and
Malaysia still rank in the bottom half of the most recent "Corruption
Perceptions Index" compiled by Transparency International, an anti-graft
watchdog. Vietnam ranked 100 out of 133 countries, Indonesia 122 and Myanmar a
dismal 129. This poor showing stems in part from a lack of
laws, personnel and money to combat corruption. But the resource in shortest
supply is political will to tackle the problem. All countries in South -East
Asia have at least one anti-corruption agency. But the ones that work best,
argues Jon Quah, a professor at the National University of Singapore, are
centralized, independent agencies such as Thailand's National Counter Corruption
Commission. By contrast, Malaysia's Anti-Corrnption Agency reports to the
government, and so is subject to political control. The Philippines, meanwhile,
has adopted no fewer than seven anti-corruption laws in the past 50 years, and
created 13 anti-graft agencies, according to Mr. Quah's count. Dramatic but
disputed corruption allegations, such as the claim that the president's husband
is managing multiple slush funds, simply get lost in all this
bureaucracy.
单选题
By saying "this flurry of righteousness", the author points to ______.
A. the arrest of the corrupt.
B. the solving of all the corruption cases .
C. the appearance of the righteous people.
D. the disappearance of the justice.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是一个词义理解题，给出一个词组，要求考生联系上下文给出其在文中的意思。回到原文 “there is less to this flurry of righteousness than meets the eye．”。从词面上解释，所选取的短语应该是指上面段落中的一系列活动，而且是一个表示抽象的名词词组。
A．贪污官员的被捕。正确，比较恰当地概括了上一段的内容。
B．全部贪污案件的解决。错误，这个选项犯了过于绝对的错误，注意文章中没有出现“全部”的意思。
C．正直的人的出现。
D．正义的消失。错误，和文章的意思正好相反。
单选题
It can be inferred from the passage that the author expects that the
corruption in some countries of the South-East Asia will______.
单选题
According to the passage, Rafidah Aziz's critic will welcome her threat
because ______.
A. they could take advantage of it to accuse her.
B. it show her weak points.
C. they could make it evidence.
D. she has given them bribe.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是一个细节题，主要是考察考生对文章中句子之间关系的了解。考生需要综合考察句子的语法和逻辑来进行判断。
A．他们可以借助它来起诉她。错误，和原文的意思不合，原文没有提到起诉的事情。
B．暴露了她的弱点。错误，文章里面没有提到。
C．它们可以把它作为证据。正确，注意到后置定语“as a chance to prove their accusations in court．Is the pervasiveness of corruption”。
D．她曾经给了他们贿赂。错误，文章里面没有提到。
单选题
The author do not do which of the following things?
A. Give some facts.
B. Point out the underlying causes of some problems.