单选题 In the past 35 years, hundreds of millions of Chinese have found productive, if often exhausting, work in the country's growing cities. This extraordinary mobilization of labour is the biggest economic event of the past half-century. The world has seen nothing on such scale before. Will it see anything like it again? The answer lies across the Himalayas in India.
India is an ancient civilization but a youthful country. Its working-age population is rising by about 12m people a year, even as China's shrank last year by 3m. Within a decade India will have the biggest potential workforce in the world.
Optimists look forward to a bumper "demographic dividend", the result of more workers per dependant and more saving out of income. This combination accounted for perhaps a third of the East Asian miracle. India "has time on its side, literally," boasted one prominent politician, Kamal Nath, in a 2008 book entitled "India's Century".
But although India's dreamers have faith in its youth, the country's youngest have growing reason to doubt India. The economy raised aspirations that it has subsequently failed to meet. From 2005 to 2007 it grew by about 9% a year. In 2010 it even grew faster than China (if the two economies are measured consistently). But growth has since halved. India's impressive savings rate, the other side of the demographic dividend, has also slipped. Worryingly, a growing share of household saving is bypassing the financial system altogether, seeking refuge from inflation in gold, bricks and mortar.
The last time a Congress-led government liberalized the economy in earnest—in 1991—over 40% of today's Indians had yet to be born. Their anxieties must seem remote to India's elderly politicians. The average age of cabinet minister is 65. The country has never had a prime minister born in independent India. One man who might buck that trend, Rahul Gandhi, is the son, grandson and the great-grandson of former prime ministers. India is run by gerontocrats (老年统治者) and epigones (子孙): {{U}}grey hairs and groomed heirs{{/U}}. The apparent indifference of the police to the way young women in particular are treated has underlined the way that old India fails to protect new India.

单选题 China is mentioned in order to ______.

A.show its scale of labour force
B.highlight its economic growth
C.introduce the topic of India
D.stress the importance of labour

单选题 Which is true according to Paragraph 2?

A.India's working-age population has shrunk.
B.China's working-age population has been rising.
C.India is now the biggest potential workforce in the world.
D.India is an ancient country but a young one in the modern world.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。选项与原文对比。A原文：India is an ancient civilization but a youthful country. Its working-age population is rising...可见印度的劳动力人口在增长，而非shrunk(萎缩)，故A错误。B原文：...even as China's shrank last year by 3m(中国的劳动力人口在萎缩)，可见A、B故意把原文颠倒，B也是错误的。C原文：Within a decade India will have the biggest potential workforce in the world.文章提到的是within a decade(十年内)，而非C选项说的now，故错误。D原文：India is an ancient civilization but a youthful country.基本上该项和原文第一句是同义转换，故为答案。

单选题 Which one can best describe Kamal Nath towards India's future?

A.Confident.
B.Worried.
C.Doubtful.
D.Negative.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。虽然没有体现出attitude，think，view等观点态度题的提示词，但本题问：对于印度的未来，以下哪项最能描述Kamal Nath?也就是说对于印度的未来Kamal Nath是什么态度。通过Kamal Nath这一人名我们定位到第三段的最后一句：India "has time on its side, literally," boasted one prominent politician, Kamal Nath, in a 2008 book entitled "India's Century".其中on its side(在它这边)，boasted(吹嘘)，India Century(印度的世纪)，这些词都体现了Kamal Nath对于印度未来的态度是积极的，而选项中只有A“自信的”比较靠边，故A为答案。

单选题 The fourth paragraph shows us that ______.

A.India has reached its economic target
B.India's economic growth has halved after 2010
C.Indians have become doubtful about their country
D.India's savings rate has increased from 2005 to 2007

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。选项与原文对比。A原文：The economy raised aspirations that it has subsequently failed to meet.其中fail to meet和A项的reach its economic target完全相反，故A错误。B原文：In 2010 it even grew faster than China. But growth has since halved.对since一词的理解很关键，此处的since由于在助动词和实意动词之间，属于副词，在副词中它表示“后来”，等于B项的after，所以B项是正确的。C原文：...the country's youngest have growing reason to doubt India.是印度的年轻人质疑印度，而非该项所说的Indians(印度人民)，这是偷换概念，故错误。D原文：India's impressive savings rate, the other side of the demographic dividend, has also slipped.当中提到savings rate在slip(下滑)，而非选项所说的increased(增长)，故D项错误。

单选题 The underlined phrase "grey hairs and groomed heirs" (Para. 5) means ______.

A.old man and young women
B.elderly rulers and their descendants
C.prime ministers and their successors
D.prime ministers and their grandsons

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 语义题。选项与原文对比。本题其实不难，但是C、D两项有一定干扰，文中的grey hairs(灰白的头发)显然指的是老年人，且指的是上文的gerontocrats(老年统治者)，而C、D两项中prime ministers并未提到老年人这一概念，故错误。其实该题的答案就在其前面，因为语义题要特别注意上下文所出现的同义替换，该句的grey hairs and groomed heirs=gerontocrats and epigones=elderly rulers and descendants。虽然出现了两个特别难的超纲词，但这两个超纲词在原文中都有中文注解，降低了该题的难度，答案为B。