单选题
{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are
four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice and
mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in
the brackets. One of the youngest independent
countries in the Western Hemisphere, Trinidad and Tobago, became a nation on
August 31, 1962. For a long time this nation has attracted tourists--it is the
home of calypso music and limbo dancing--and in recent years its healthy economy
has attracted investors as well. Trinidad and Tobago is a
single country composed of two islands: Trinidad, with the majority of the
country's 900,000 inhabitants, is a rectangle of roughly fifty by forty miles.
Tobago, nineteen miles to the north, is smaller and has a population of about
35,000. Situated at the end of the long chain of Windward and
Leeward Islands, Trinidad is at one point only seven miles off the coast of
Venezuela. Its geology, flora, and fauna are similar to those of the South
American mainland. Like Venezuela, the backbone of Trinidad and Tobago's economy
is petroleum and its first colonists were Spaniards. Three
mountain ranges, with summits of up to 3,000 feet, cross Trinidad from east to
west, while Tobago is a relatively flat coral island, rimmed with fine beaches.
The broad plains between Trinidad's mountain ranges are dominated by vast fields
of sugar cane that present a symmetrical green pattern when seen from the air. A
closer inspection reveals the coconut plantations along the coast and the
profusion of brilliant red and yellow flowers of various species that are found
all over the island. Houses on both islands tend to be light-colored, with an
open style of architecture, in many cages with open space under the entire
dwelling. Port-of-Spain, the capital, is a bustling modern city where the pulse
of the people reflects Britist, Spanish, and East Indian influcnces.
单选题
The title below that best expresses the main idea of this passage is
______.