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 Slavolub Djukic, his unofficial biographer. He was "not interested in sports, avoided excursions (短途旅行) 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 (一丝不苟) 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 Committee. 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 (无情的) and determined man. At home with Mira he plotted the downfall of his political enemies. Conspiring (密谋) with the director of Serbian T. V., 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. N.A.T.O. 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?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 由原文的第一句话“...Milosevic was found dead last Saturday in his cell, ...”可知，Milosevic于上周六死于他自己的牢房内。cell牢房。故B选项的“在监狱内”符合原文内容。因此，本题的正确答案为B。
单选题 Which of the following is NOT true of the young Milosevic?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 由原文第二段的倒数第二句话“He was not interested in sports, avoided excursions and used to come to school dressed in the old-fashioned way—white shirt and tie.”可知，A、B、C三个选项都符合原文内容。但是没有提到D选项。因此，本题的正确答案为D。
单选题 All of the following persons changed his fate in one way or another EXCEPT ______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 原文的第三段表明，他的妻子Maria是他的动力。原文第五段的最后一句话表明，塞尔维亚电视台的导演(the Director of Serbian T. V.)帮助他通过媒体获得了政权。原文的最后一句话表明，塞尔维亚的新领导人Zoran Djindjic逮捕了他并让他接受审判。综上可知，A、C、D三个选项所说的人都对他的命运有影响。而原文只是在第二段中提到，他父母在他很小的时候就都去世了，并没有提到他们对他命运的影响。因此，本题的正确答案为B。
单选题 Why was Milosevic sent to Kosovo in 1989?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 文章倒数第三段第三句明确说到，他被送到科索沃“to calm fears of Serbians who felt they were discriminated against”，由此可知，本题的正确答案为C。
单选题 What happened in 1991?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 由文章倒数第二段第三句“Yugoslavia broke up when four of the six republics declared independence in 1991.”可知，本题的正确答案为A。1991年南斯拉夫解体后，战争开始，西方开始介入，北约也轰炸了南斯拉夫。因此排除B、C项。Milosevic被捕是在2000年之后，排除D项。