题文

Is the world too crowded? Well, that’s a hard question to answer. It’s all a matter of perspective(视角).In Montana, you might drive for a mile in any direction and not see another human being. In Macao, 60,000 people live in every square mile! What is true is that the world’s population doesn’t stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate(比例).That’s in part because in each generation(代) these are more people who then have children than in the last generation. Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1900,the world’s population was under 2 billion(十亿).Right now it is doubling every 40 years. That means, if this rate of growth continues, when you are a parent, there will be twice as many people on earth as there are now. Wow! Now that’s a whole lot of people! Soon the world’s population will probably reach 7 billion. Some people worry about that! But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on earth equals(相当于) too many people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources(资源) the world needs to feed, house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and use the earth’s resources. 小题1:From the first paragraph we can know that ­________. A．Montana is too crowded B．Macao is too crowded C．the world is too crowded D．the world is not too crowded 小题2:The population is increasing fast partly because ________. A．people live longer than before B．there are less wars than before C．medicine is developing faster than before D．more couples now would like to have children than before 小题3:What was the world’s population 100 years ago? A．450 million. B．about 2 billion. C．40 billion. D．7 billion. 小题4:The writer thinks that with the population increasing, we should ________. A．find more resources B．use more resources C．think about our ways of living D．move to other places 小题5:From the passage we can learn that the writer ________. A．thinks the world already has too many people B．thinks the world can feed no more than 7 billion people C．is not sure when the world’s population will reach 7 billion D．is not sure what the largest population that the world can feed is

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答案

小题1:B 小题2:D 小题3:B 小题4:C 小题5:D

本文主要讲述了人口的不断增长，以及人口的增长和资源的问题。 小题1:根据第一段最后一句：在Montana你向任何方向开车一英里，可能看不到任何人，但是在澳门每平方英里有6万人。可以看出澳门的人多，故答案选B。 小题2:根据第二段的最后一句that’s in part because in each generation there are more people who then have more children than in the last generation..可知答选D。 小题3:根据第三段的第二句In1900, the world’s population was under 2 billion.在1900年世界的人口不足两亿，可知答案选B。 小题4:根据文章的最后一句可以得知“由于人口的增长，我们可以考虑我的生活方式了”，因此，答案选择C项。 小题5:由最后一段中的But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on earth equals too many people.可以判断得知。

据专家权威分析，试题“Is the world too crowded? Well, that’s a hard question to ..”主要考查你对  政治经济类阅读  等考点的理解。关于这些考点的“档案”如下：

政治经济类阅读

考点名称：政治经济类阅读

• 政治经济类阅读：
  该类文章时代气息浓郁，语言鲜活，但熟字新义词、超纲词及专业词语多，长句、难句多。
  政治类文章大多数是同学们感性趣的内容，读起来倒有似曾相识的感觉，经济类文章读起来就像是雾里看花，文章看完，一头雾水。
  再加之这类文章的命题侧重于词义猜测、推理判断和文章主旨，同学们对这类题材是望而生畏。
  

• 政治经济类阅读注意：
  1、要做好这类阅读，平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事，掌握一定背景知识；
  2、对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解，还要扩展这方面的词汇；
  3、阅读这类文章，要抓住文章的核心，即文章整体和各段主要在说什么，也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。

  政治经济类阅读技巧：
  针对不同体裁的文章，我们要采取相应的阅读方法和技巧。政治类文章多采用记叙文形式，我们可采取“顺读法”，以便抓关键语句，领会文章主旨；而经济类文章则多采用说明文形式，我们则可以采取“逆读法”，先读试题，再从文章中查找有用信息。若遇到的确难读的材料。
  1. 寻找主干：
  根据英语中五种基本句型结构，把句子中的主语、谓语、宾语、表语等主要成分找出来，其他成分如定语、状语、补语等则易于理解。找到了句子主干，句子的意思至少明白了一半。
  2. 剔除从句：
  在一个长句中可能会出现若干个从句，在理解时，如果把各个从句剔除出来单独理解，然后把大意拼凑起来，整个长句的意思就会明白六、七分。
  3. 辨别分句：
  一个长句如果是由几个并列、转折、递进、对比关系的分句组成，句中往往有表示这些分句关系的连接词，只要能弄清楚分句和分句之间的逻辑关系，再把各层分句的意思加以连贯，整个长句的句意基本上能跃然脑中。
  4. 寻找关键词：
  如果一个句子看完，一点句意的感觉也没有，下下策就是抓住句中的关键词，通过关键词大体弄懂这个长句的意思。