单选题 Whenever I see anyone buying a National Lottery ticket, I want to stop them and ask if they know just where their money is going.
The lottery money is supposed to go to charity--but it makes me angry to see some of the so called "good causes" it's being used to support. Also, Camelot, the organizers, have made a profit of ~ 10.8 million in five months. We hear now that a lot of that money is boosting the pay packets of the company's bosses.
For the past 10 years I've been helping to raise funds for a cancer research charity called Tenovus. My husband, Sam, died from cancer 11 years ago—he was only 51. There's been a long line of deaths in our family through cancer and it's been devastating. I've also lost two sisters-in-law, my brother, Michael, my father-in-law and my father. That's apart from several close friends.
The charity is 50 years old now and raises money mainly for breast cancer research. It also runs a support line for the families of cancer sufferers. Our local group raises money through dances, sales and coffee mornings, and all the funds go directly to cancer research. In 1993 Tenovus raised ￡3 million and half of that money came from sales of our own lottery tickets at supermarkets. But our in- come has dropped by half since the National Lottery was introduced.
I'm not against people playing the National Lottery, but they should think about what they're doing. The chances of winning the jackpot (赌注)are so small; they might as well throw their money away. The Government tells us that the proceeds(收入) are going to things like the arts and sport, but what about the National Health Service? They should give some cash to that, too. How can they justify spending ridiculous amounts of cash on so called works of art—like displays of potatoes or buying up Winston Churchill's papers at a cost of ￡12 million?
So who really are the winners in the National Lottery? When I think of all that money people could be donating to cancer research, I could weep. It's time people realized how charities across the country are suffering because of the National Lottery. It's disheartening and so infuriating(令人发怒的).
单选题 The writer seems to hope that ______.
  • A. people will spend more money on the National Lottery
  • B. people will give more money to charity
  • C. most of the lottery money will go to charity
  • D. most of the lottery money will be used for cancer research
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是推理题，考查对作者意图的理解。A项明显不对； B项曲解了作者的意思，作者是在惋惜彩票业的收入不能全用于慈善事业；C项包含了D项的含义。
单选题 The reason why the writer raises funds for cancer research is that.
  • A. she herself is suffering from cancer
  • B. the cancer is the most frightening disease
  • C. a number of her relatives died of cancer
  • D. some cancer research needs more money than other research
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是细节推理题，考查对文章细节的把握和对原因的推理。第三段有明确表述，“作者的丈夫等很多亲人被癌症夺去生命”，这正是作者热衷于为癌症治疗事业积累资金的原因。A项、B项和D项在文中没有提及。
单选题 In this text the writer is expressing ______.
  • A. her personal opinions
  • B. the opinions of the general public
  • C. her feelings about cancer sufferers
  • D. some ideas of fund-raising
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是推理判断题，考查对全文的整体把握。文中作者“处处流露出个人的观点与情绪”，如文章第一句话就提到“无论何时，当我看见有人买国家彩票时，我就想让他们停下来，问问他们知不知道自己的钱会跑到哪儿去”，这些都不是一种理性的论证基金积累的问题。
单选题 The organization "Tenovus" is ______.
  • A. run by a group of people in the writer' s town
  • B. a charity organization which has some local groups
  • C. set up to collect money for people who lose their relatives
  • D. set up to assist the National Lottery
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题是细节题。第四段第三句中提到的“我们当地的团体组织”，即"Tenovous"的下属机构。A项文中未提到；B项与文意符合；C项和D项明显不对。
单选题 From the text we can conclude that ______.
  • A. the writer is enthusiastically supporting the National Lottery
  • B. the writer has objections to the National Lottery
  • C. the writer believes that the lottery money should be used for cancer research
  • D. the writer is just expressing her feelings about collecting money for charity
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 题是推理题。作者的观点明显是反对国家彩票的，故 A项是错误的；B项是正确的；C项过于绝对和狭隘，作者并没有说“所有的彩票业收入都应用于癌症研究”，而是“应用于慈善事业”；D项的表述不能概括作者对彩票业与慈善事业关系的看法。