2005年Text 2
Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’t know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertain? That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way? Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves.
There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth’s atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Albert, added this key point in the preface to the panel’s report "Science never has all the answers. But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that our nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions."
Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. This is a dangerous game: by the time 100 percent of the evidence is in, it may be too late. With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now.
Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it’s obvious that a majority of the president’s advisers still don’t take global warming seriously. Instead of a plan of action, they continue to press for more research -- a classic case of "paralysis by analysis."
To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must press forward on deeper atmospheric and oceanic research. But research alone is inadequate. If the Administration won’t take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures. A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial incentives for private industry, is a promising start. Many see that the country is getting ready to build lots of new power plants to meet our energy needs. If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.
30. The author associates the issue of global warning with that of smoking because
[A] they both suffered from the government’s negligence.
[B] a lesson from the latter is applicable to the former.
[C] the outcome of the latter aggravates the former.
[D] both of them have turned from bad to worse.
[答案] B
[解題思路]
文章第二段開頭提到了"There are upsetting parallels today"（這種令人不安的情況又在發(fā)生著），同時(shí)第三段開頭更明確地指出"Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure"（和現(xiàn)在對(duì)待吸煙問題上的看法一樣，來自很多地方的意見認(rèn)為，科學(xué)關(guān)于全球變暖的證據(jù)不足，在我們有確切證據(jù)之前還是可以繼續(xù)把廢棄排放到空氣中）。很顯然，作者認(rèn)為吸煙問題和全球變暖問題具有可比擬性"parallels"，因此后者的教訓(xùn)也有可能適用于前者，正確答案為B。C選項(xiàng)的錯(cuò)誤在于兩個(gè)現(xiàn)象不具有因果關(guān)系或先后聯(lián)系，而A、D選項(xiàng)的表述在文章中都沒有提到。
[題目譯文]
作者把全球變暖問題與吸煙問題聯(lián)系起來是因?yàn)?BR> [A] 兩者都被政府所忽視
[B] 后者的教訓(xùn)適用于前者
[C] 后者的結(jié)構(gòu)加重了前者
[D] 兩者都從不好的狀況變得更加糟糕2006年Text 4
Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy .Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets to make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. Celebrate! commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
What we forget--what our economy depends on is forgetting--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
36. By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that
[A] Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.
[B] Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling.
[C] Poets today are less skeptical of happiness.
[D] Artist have changed their focus of interest.
[答案] D
[解題思路]
本題的題干中提到了引用詩人華茲華斯和波德萊爾兩個(gè)例子的目的，因此可以迅速定位到文章的第二段。第二段主要論及藝術(shù)態(tài)度的變化，早期的藝術(shù)經(jīng)常用來表達(dá)歡樂之情，但從第三句But一詞開始筆鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，指出19世紀(jì)開始藝術(shù)家更多地把幸福視為無意義且乏味，緊接著就以華茲華斯和波德萊爾德作品為例。因此作者用這兩個(gè)例子是意在說明藝術(shù)家們改變了他們的興趣點(diǎn)，因此D為正確答案。A選項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容不符合原文，因?yàn)槲恼虏]有將詩歌與其它藝術(shù)形式作比較。B選項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容在文章中沒有論及，而C選項(xiàng)正好與文章意思相反，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在的藝術(shù)家們對(duì)幸福越來越持懷疑態(tài)度。
[題目譯文]
作者舉詩人華茲華斯和波德萊爾的例子是想說明
[A] 詩歌不想繪畫或音樂那樣能夠表達(dá)歡樂
[B] 藝術(shù)來自積極和消極的情緒
[C] 現(xiàn)在的詩人布那么懷疑幸福了
[D] 藝術(shù)家們改變了他們的興趣點(diǎn) 2007年Text 1
If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.
What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: [A] certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; [B] winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; [C. soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; [D] none of the above.
Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in none of the above. Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20, Ericsson recalls. He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.
This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person encodes the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.
Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers -- whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming -- are nearly always made, not born.
25. Which of the following proverbs is closest to the message the text tries to convey?
[A] Faith will move mountains.
[B] One reaps what one sows.
[C] Practice makes perfect.
[D] Like father, like son.
[答案] C
[解題思路]
本題其實(shí)考察的是對(duì)文章中心思想的理解。原文中作者反復(fù)強(qiáng)調(diào)和論證的一個(gè)主要觀點(diǎn)就是一個(gè)人的成才不是先天決定的，而主要是靠后天培養(yǎng)塑造出來的，不要不斷地練習(xí)和實(shí)踐。因此C選項(xiàng)Practice makes perfect最能與原文觀點(diǎn)呼應(yīng)。A與文章的中心思想無關(guān)，而B、D選項(xiàng)均與文章的意思相反。
[題目譯文]
下面的那一句諺語與文章所傳遞的信息最接近？
[A] 精誠所至，金石為開
[B] 種瓜得瓜
[C] 熟能生巧
[D] 有其父必有其子 2007年Text 3
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.
In just one generation, millions of mothers have gone to work, transforming basic family economics. Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today’s families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback -- a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This added-worker effect could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise-stay-at-home partner.
During the same period, families have been asked to absorb much more risk in their retirement income. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest-rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a savings-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. For younger families, the picture is not any better. Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen -- and newly fashionable health-savings plans are spreading from legislative halls to Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families’ future healthcare. Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent -- and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance -- have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. The financial fallout has begun, and the political fallout may not be far behind.
35. Which of the following is the best title for this text?
[A] The Middle Class on the Alert
[B] The Middle Class on the Cliff
[C] The Middle Class in Conflict
[D] The Middle Class in Ruins
[答案] B
[解題思路]
本題考察對(duì)全文的綜合理解，而文章的中心思想就是討論中產(chǎn)階級(jí)面臨的充滿各種危機(jī)的經(jīng)濟(jì)情況。A選項(xiàng)關(guān)于中產(chǎn)階級(jí)是否警覺到這種情況我們從文中不得而知，因此該選項(xiàng)可排除。此外，文章也沒有提到中產(chǎn)階級(jí)是否陷入了沖突或已處于徹底毀滅的狀況，由此可以排除C和D選項(xiàng)。而中產(chǎn)階級(jí)面臨的那種經(jīng)濟(jì)上岌岌可危的狀況就好像站在懸崖上那么危險(xiǎn)，因此B選項(xiàng)為正確答案。
[題目譯文]
下面的那一項(xiàng)是這篇文章的標(biāo)題？
[A] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在警覺
[B] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在懸崖上
[C] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在沖突中
[D] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在廢墟中
Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’t know for sure? That the evidence was inconclusive, the science uncertain? That the antismoking lobby was out to destroy our way of life and the government should stay out of the way? Lots of Americans bought that nonsense, and over three decades, some 10 million smokers went to early graves.
There are upsetting parallels today, as scientists in one wave after another try to awaken us to the growing threat of global warming. The latest was a panel from the National Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to tell us that the Earth’s atmosphere is definitely warming and that the problem is largely man-made. The clear message is that we should get moving to protect ourselves. The president of the National Academy, Bruce Albert, added this key point in the preface to the panel’s report "Science never has all the answers. But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that our nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions."
Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. This is a dangerous game: by the time 100 percent of the evidence is in, it may be too late. With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now.
Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it’s obvious that a majority of the president’s advisers still don’t take global warming seriously. Instead of a plan of action, they continue to press for more research -- a classic case of "paralysis by analysis."
To serve as responsible stewards of the planet, we must press forward on deeper atmospheric and oceanic research. But research alone is inadequate. If the Administration won’t take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures. A bill by Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, which would offer financial incentives for private industry, is a promising start. Many see that the country is getting ready to build lots of new power plants to meet our energy needs. If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.
30. The author associates the issue of global warning with that of smoking because
[A] they both suffered from the government’s negligence.
[B] a lesson from the latter is applicable to the former.
[C] the outcome of the latter aggravates the former.
[D] both of them have turned from bad to worse.
[答案] B
[解題思路]
文章第二段開頭提到了"There are upsetting parallels today"（這種令人不安的情況又在發(fā)生著），同時(shí)第三段開頭更明確地指出"Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure"（和現(xiàn)在對(duì)待吸煙問題上的看法一樣，來自很多地方的意見認(rèn)為，科學(xué)關(guān)于全球變暖的證據(jù)不足，在我們有確切證據(jù)之前還是可以繼續(xù)把廢棄排放到空氣中）。很顯然，作者認(rèn)為吸煙問題和全球變暖問題具有可比擬性"parallels"，因此后者的教訓(xùn)也有可能適用于前者，正確答案為B。C選項(xiàng)的錯(cuò)誤在于兩個(gè)現(xiàn)象不具有因果關(guān)系或先后聯(lián)系，而A、D選項(xiàng)的表述在文章中都沒有提到。
[題目譯文]
作者把全球變暖問題與吸煙問題聯(lián)系起來是因?yàn)?BR> [A] 兩者都被政府所忽視
[B] 后者的教訓(xùn)適用于前者
[C] 后者的結(jié)構(gòu)加重了前者
[D] 兩者都從不好的狀況變得更加糟糕2006年Text 4
Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for expressing joy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’s flowers of evil.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy .Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets to make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. Celebrate! commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.
What we forget--what our economy depends on is forgetting--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.
36. By citing the example of poets Wordsworth and Baudelaire, the author intends to show that
[A] Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.
[B] Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling.
[C] Poets today are less skeptical of happiness.
[D] Artist have changed their focus of interest.
[答案] D
[解題思路]
本題的題干中提到了引用詩人華茲華斯和波德萊爾兩個(gè)例子的目的，因此可以迅速定位到文章的第二段。第二段主要論及藝術(shù)態(tài)度的變化，早期的藝術(shù)經(jīng)常用來表達(dá)歡樂之情，但從第三句But一詞開始筆鋒一轉(zhuǎn)，指出19世紀(jì)開始藝術(shù)家更多地把幸福視為無意義且乏味，緊接著就以華茲華斯和波德萊爾德作品為例。因此作者用這兩個(gè)例子是意在說明藝術(shù)家們改變了他們的興趣點(diǎn)，因此D為正確答案。A選項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容不符合原文，因?yàn)槲恼虏]有將詩歌與其它藝術(shù)形式作比較。B選項(xiàng)的內(nèi)容在文章中沒有論及，而C選項(xiàng)正好與文章意思相反，因?yàn)楝F(xiàn)在的藝術(shù)家們對(duì)幸福越來越持懷疑態(tài)度。
[題目譯文]
作者舉詩人華茲華斯和波德萊爾的例子是想說明
[A] 詩歌不想繪畫或音樂那樣能夠表達(dá)歡樂
[B] 藝術(shù)來自積極和消極的情緒
[C] 現(xiàn)在的詩人布那么懷疑幸福了
[D] 藝術(shù)家們改變了他們的興趣點(diǎn) 2007年Text 1
If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.
What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: [A] certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills; [B] winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; [C. soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania; [D] none of the above.
Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in none of the above. Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own research if he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20, Ericsson recalls. He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.
This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person encodes the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task. Rather, it involves setting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.
Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. They gather all the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers -- whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming -- are nearly always made, not born.
25. Which of the following proverbs is closest to the message the text tries to convey?
[A] Faith will move mountains.
[B] One reaps what one sows.
[C] Practice makes perfect.
[D] Like father, like son.
[答案] C
[解題思路]
本題其實(shí)考察的是對(duì)文章中心思想的理解。原文中作者反復(fù)強(qiáng)調(diào)和論證的一個(gè)主要觀點(diǎn)就是一個(gè)人的成才不是先天決定的，而主要是靠后天培養(yǎng)塑造出來的，不要不斷地練習(xí)和實(shí)踐。因此C選項(xiàng)Practice makes perfect最能與原文觀點(diǎn)呼應(yīng)。A與文章的中心思想無關(guān)，而B、D選項(xiàng)均與文章的意思相反。
[題目譯文]
下面的那一句諺語與文章所傳遞的信息最接近？
[A] 精誠所至，金石為開
[B] 種瓜得瓜
[C] 熟能生巧
[D] 有其父必有其子 2007年Text 3
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.
In just one generation, millions of mothers have gone to work, transforming basic family economics. Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well. Today’s families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback -- a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This added-worker effect could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise-stay-at-home partner.
During the same period, families have been asked to absorb much more risk in their retirement income. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest-rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a savings-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. For younger families, the picture is not any better. Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen -- and newly fashionable health-savings plans are spreading from legislative halls to Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families’ future healthcare. Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent -- and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance -- have jumped eightfold in just one generation.
From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. The financial fallout has begun, and the political fallout may not be far behind.
35. Which of the following is the best title for this text?
[A] The Middle Class on the Alert
[B] The Middle Class on the Cliff
[C] The Middle Class in Conflict
[D] The Middle Class in Ruins
[答案] B
[解題思路]
本題考察對(duì)全文的綜合理解，而文章的中心思想就是討論中產(chǎn)階級(jí)面臨的充滿各種危機(jī)的經(jīng)濟(jì)情況。A選項(xiàng)關(guān)于中產(chǎn)階級(jí)是否警覺到這種情況我們從文中不得而知，因此該選項(xiàng)可排除。此外，文章也沒有提到中產(chǎn)階級(jí)是否陷入了沖突或已處于徹底毀滅的狀況，由此可以排除C和D選項(xiàng)。而中產(chǎn)階級(jí)面臨的那種經(jīng)濟(jì)上岌岌可危的狀況就好像站在懸崖上那么危險(xiǎn)，因此B選項(xiàng)為正確答案。
[題目譯文]
下面的那一項(xiàng)是這篇文章的標(biāo)題？
[A] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在警覺
[B] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在懸崖上
[C] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在沖突中
[D] 中產(chǎn)階級(jí)在廢墟中