单选题 Milosevic' s Death
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was found dead last Saturday in his cell at the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The 64-year-old had been on trial there since February 2002.
Born in provincial Pozarevac in 1941, he was the second son of a priest and a school teacher. Both of his parents died when he was still a young adult. The young Milosevic was "untypical", says Slavoljub Djukic, his unofficial biographer. He was "not interested in sports, avoided excursions and used to come to school dressed in the old-fashioned way - white shirt and tie." One of his old friends said, he could "imagine him as a station-master or punctilious civil servant".
Indeed that is exactly what he might have become, had he not married Mira. She was widely believed to be his driving force.
At university and beyond he did well. He worked for various firms and was a communist party member. By 1986 he was head of Serbia's Central Committer. But still he had not yet really been noticed.
It was Kosovo that gave him his chance. An autonomous province of Serbia, Kosovo was home to an Albanian majority and a Serbian minority. In 1989, he was sent there to calm fears of Serbians who felt they were discriminated against. But instead he played the nationalist card and became their champion. In so doing, he changed into a ruthless and determined man. At home with Mira he plotted the downfall of his political enemies. Conspiring with the director of Serbian TV, he mounted a modern media campaign which aimed to get him the most power in the country.
He was elected Serbian president in 1990. In 1997, he became president of Yugoslavia. The rest of the story is well-known: his nationalist card caused Yugoslavia's other ethnic groups to fight for their own rights, power and lands. Yugoslavia broke up when four of the six republics declared independence in 1991. War started and lasted for years and millions died. Then Western countries intervened. NATO bombed Yugoslavia, and he eventually stepped down as state leader in 2000.
Soon after this, Serbia's new government, led by Zoran Djindjic, arrested him and sent him to face justice at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague.

单选题 Where did Milosevic die?
A. In a basement.
B. In prison.
C. In a small room.
D. In his own country.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】文章的开头说到了Milosevic死亡的时间和地点。在说到地点时用的短语是：in his cell(在他的牢房)。 prison是“监狱”，跟cell相关。这就排斥了A和C。文章开头还说到了他的牢房的所属机构是the Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia：设于海牙的前南斯拉夫国际罪行仲裁法庭。可见，Milosevic不是死在本国，这就排斥了D，因此B是正确的选项。
单选题 Which of the following is NOT tree of the young Milosevic?
A. He dressed in a pretty old-fashioned way.
B. He was not interested in sports.
C. He was an ordinary person.
D. He was extremely ambitious.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】第三段是这么说的：Indeed that is exactly what he might have become，had he not married Mira．She was widely believed to be his driving force．事实上如果不是跟Mira结婚的话，他有可能成为这样一个人。大家认为她是他的动力。这一段蕴涵的一个意思是，在这以前，Milosevic没有太大的抱负，其实有关这一点，第二段也有所描述。
单选题 All of the following persons in one way or another changed his fate EXCEPT
A. Mira.
B. His parents.
C. Zoran Djindjic.
D. The Director of Serbian TV.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】题干问的是：对他的命运没有以某种方式影响的是谁?有关Milosevic的父母，文章的第二段的开头两个句子有所描述，但从这两个句子提供的信息，我们看不出，他的父母对他的命运有什么影响，而其他三个人对他的成功或失败都有很大的影响。
单选题 Why was Milosevic sent to Kosovo in 1989?
A. To handle economic issues.
B. To drive Albanians back to their own country.
C. To remove the Serbians' fears that they were discriminated against.
D. To launch an attack against his political enemies.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】倒数第三段有这样一个句子：In 1989，he was sent there to calm fears of Serbians who felt they were discriminated against．1989年，他被派到那里去消除感到受歧视的塞尔维亚人的恐惧。
单选题 What happened in 1991?
A. Yugoslavia broke up.
B. Western countries intervened.
C. NATO bombed Yugoslavia.
D. Milosevic was arrested.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】倒数第二段有这样一个句子：Yugoslavia broke up when four of the six republics declared independence in 1991。1991年，当六个共和国中的四个宣布独立时，南斯拉夫解体了。A就来自这个句子。