当前位置: 100md首页 > 医学版 > 医学资料 > doc资料 > 更多1
编号:34356
石春桢220篇答案注释完整版.doc
http://www.100md.com
    参见附件(772KB)。

    答案注释

    UNIT 1

    Text 1-1

    1.C根据第一段最后两句"He persuaded a bunch of economists ... to draw up a list of priorities. They found that ... fighting global warming would cost a colossal amount and yield distant and uncertain rewards",C应为答案。

    2.B根据第二段最后两句"Too often at the UN, said Mr Bolton, 'everything is a priority'. The secretary-general is charged with carrying out 9,000 mandates, he said, and when you have 9,000 priorities you have none",B应为答案。

    3.B根据第五段前三句"The ambassadors ... would work. Promoting breast-feeding ... is proven to save lives. It also helps infants ... as adults",B应为答案。

    4.D根据第六段第三句"Mr Lomborg reckons that the benefits ... would probably outweigh the costs, but not until 2100",D应为答案。

    5.A本文核心是"the UN"是否应该继续把"global warming"当做"priority"来对待。根据全文最后一句,"the UN"能否改变态度,还难以预料。所以,A应为答案。

    Text 1-2

    1.C根据第一段第二句和第三句"... he has been widely and extravagantly acclaimed by economic commentators, politicians and investors. After all, during much of his 181/2 years in office America enjoyed rapid growth with low inflation, and he successfully steered the economy around a series of financial hazards",C应为答案。

    2.B根据第一段最后两句"Mr Greenspan's departure ... with a period of sluggish growth ahead. This is not so much ... but because of what he is leaving behind: the biggest economic imbalances in American history",B应为答案。

    3.C根据第二段第一句"One should not exaggerate Mr Greenspan's influence-both good and bad-over the economy"(格林斯潘对经济的影响,包括正面的和负面的,无论怎么说也不过分),C应为答案。

    4.D根据第一段第三句"After all, during much of his 181/2 years in office America enjoyed rapid growth with low inflation, and he successfully steered the economy around a series of financial hazards"以及第三段的第二、三句"... in the face of the bursting in 2000-01 of the biggest stockmarket bubble in history, of terrorist attacks and of a tripling of oil prices. Mr Greenspan's admirers attribute this to the Fed's enhanced credibility under his charge",D应为答案。

    5.A根据第四段第三句"But the main reason why America's growth has remained strong in recent years has been a massive monetary stimulus",A应为答案。

    Text 1-3

    1.C根据第一段前两句"If you leave a loaded weapon lying around, it is bound to go off sooner or later. ... when Russia cut supplies to Ukraine this week as part of a row about money and power ...",C应为答案。

    2.D根据第一段最后两句"For years Europeans had been telling themselves that a cold-war enemy which had supplied them without fail could still be depended on now it was an ally. Suddenly, nobody was quite so sure",D应为答案。

    3.B根据第二段第三、四句"It was scarcely more welcome for America, which condemned Russia's tactics. And no wonder: it consumes one-quarter of the world's oil, but produces only 3% of the stuff",B应为答案。

    4.D根据第三段前三句"Fear of the energy weapon has a long history. When producers had the upper hand in the oil embargo of 1973-74, ... sowing turmoil and a global recession. When consumers had the upper hand in the early 1990s, the embargo cut the other way",D应为答案。

    5.A根据全文最后一句"The answers suggest a need for planning and a certain amount of grim realism, but not for outright panic",A应为答案。

    Text 1-4

    1.D根据前两段,尤其第二段的前两句"And the proof of dictatorship? On more than 30 different occasions, Mr Bush authorised the tapping of telephone calls made by American citizens",D应为答案。

    2.B根据第二段最后一句"He maintains that ... his first priority was to prevent another terrorist attack",B应为答案。

    3.D根据第一段最后两句"... Jonathan Schell argues that 'Bush's abuses of presidential power are the most extensive in American history'. ... he concedes, before adding that 'it does manifest the characteristics of one in embryonic form.'",D应为答案。

    4.A根据最后一段前两句"... but the real argument here is surely one of nuance: it has to do with how much freedom you should reasonably curtail in the name of security. Mr Bush may have crossed a line, but he has hardly smashed through it",A应为答案。

    5.B作者在本文中客观讨论了"布什曾多次授权对美国普通公民的电话通讯进行窃听"一事,介绍了对此事的各种不同反应,并没有表明自己对此事的立场。B应为答案。

    UNIT 2

    Text 2-1

    1.B第一段的重点在后两句"Environmental groups ... lobbied hard to bring the hunting and killing to a halt. In 1986 they came very close: the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted to prohibit whaling ...",介绍了环保团体为保护鲸鱼所做的工作和取得的成绩。所以,B应为答案。

    2.C根据第一段最后一句"... the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted to prohibit whaling ..."。根据第二段可知,尽管国际捕鲸协会通过了捕鲸禁令,日本、冰岛、挪威等国依然找借口大量捕杀鲸鱼,甚至公开蔑视国际捕鲸协会的规定。所以,C应为答案。

    3.D根据第四段前两句"Fortunately for the whales, the resolution isn't binding. The vote was 33 to 32 in favor, but it would have taken a 75% majority to overturn the ban",D应为答案。

    4.B根据全文最后一句"Japan last week sparred once again with Greenpeace-the organization that agitated hardest for the original ban ...",B应为答案。

    5.A本文第一段主要介绍由于捕杀过度,鲸鱼数量大幅度减少的危机,并介绍环保团体为保护鲸鱼所做的工作和取得的成绩。其他四段主要介绍日本等国家不顾捕鲸禁令,继续捕杀鲸鱼的恶劣行经,以及为了废止捕鲸禁令所施展的各种伎俩。所以,A应为答案。

    Text 2-2

    1.C根据第一段第一句"When IBM announced an overhaul of its pension plan for employees in America last week, it joined a parade of employers that are shifting more responsibility for saving for retirement on to workers",C应为答案。

    2.B根据第一段最后一句"... the closure of paternalistic corporate "defined benefit" programmes ... is accelerating"和第二段第一句"To the extent that this creates and encourages individual choice and responsibility, it is something to welcome rather than to fear",B应为答案。

    3.B根据第二段最后一句"... how much do people due to take on these new responsibilities know about basic financial concepts"和第三段第一句"The answer seems to be: not much, and less than they think they do",B应为答案。

    4.A根据第四段第一句"Even educated professionals may know the basics but see no need to keep up to date-having no idea of the interest rates on their credit cards, the fees on their mutual funds or how their investments are doing",A应为答案。

    5.C本文共五段。前两段介绍个人必须学会理财为退休做准备。第三、四段介绍个人缺乏基本理财知识的现状。最后一段说明政府应该帮助公民学习理财知识,为退休做好准备。本文核心是个人应该为退休做好准备。C应为答案。

    Text 2-3

    1.D根据第一段第二、三句"... which have allowed growth in domestic demand to outstrip supply for no less than ten years on the trot. Part of America's current prosperity is based not on genuine gains in income, nor on high productivity growth, but on borrowing from the future",D应为答案。......(后略) ......