Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to f
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Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.
According to the author,to reduce unemployment,the most important is______
According to the author,to reduce unemployment,the most important is______
A.to accelerate the I.T.revolution
B.to ensure more education for people
C.to advance economic globalization
D.to pass more bills in the 21st century
B.to ensure more education for people
C.to advance economic globalization
D.to pass more bills in the 21st century
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参考答案和解析
答案：B
解析：
细节题【命题思路】根据题干关键词“reduce unemployment”回文定位到文章最后一段，根据具体信息同义替换，则得出正确答案。【直击答案】文章中最后一段出现了与题干“reduce unemployment”近义的表达“support employment”，而题干“the most important”与文章“nothing would be more important than”相对应，指出促进就业最重要的是颁布类似于“G.I.Bill”（G.I.Bill：二战后签署的“军人安置法案”，给退伍美军提供免费大学或技校教育等福利措施。）的法案来保障人们接受高等教育的权利，B项与之吻合，故正确。【干扰排除】A项“加速信息技术产业变革”，C项“推动经济全球化”，均未提及，属于无中生有，故排除。D项虽提及要颁布更多法案，但文中讲的法案是指与“教育”相关的，而非泛指一般的法案，D项表述不准确，故排除。
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第1题：
From the first paragraph, we learn that ______.
A. the number of prisoners in America is increasing
B. America has the largest prison in the world
C. crime in America is getting much more serious
D. it is easy for a person to be locked up in America
正确答案：A37．答案为A。根据第一段第四句，That shows an increase of nearly 840,000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prisoner population in the world作出该项选择。选项B“the largest prison”与原文不符；选项C“crime is getting much more serious”与原文不符；选项D“easy”不恰当。
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第2题：
--- __________?
--- Two years ago.
A. Where did he go
B. How long has he been in America
C. When did he go to America
参考答案：C
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第3题：
Adam has just graduated from the university, he is a green hand in the marketing management.A、works hard
B、has a skill in growing plants
C、is wet behind the ears
D、is very experienced
参考答案：C
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第4题：
In spite of all stories of prosperity in the United States, not only does poverty exist there, but crimes of various types have been increasing at an alarming rate． Most acts of violence were committed by young people． 57% of the criminals arrested in 1979 were youths below 25 of age．
Everyone agrees that crime is partly a result of bad material conditions: poverty, lack of education,living without a settled home,being parentless,sufferings from other kinds of misfortune, etc．
There are also other factors than material conditions which are responsible for the sharp increase of crime rate． In the first place, some state laws provide a death penalty but some not．Secondly, the Constitution allows every citizen to carry weapons for his own protection． It is therefore possible and easy for anyone in the country to get a gun． Finally, there has been too much shown on TV and too much reported in newspaper of all kinds of crime, the details of which are so accurately described that even children know how to duplicate what they have seen or read．
All these have resulted in a high frequency of crimes committed both by professional criminals and by nonprofessional ones in murder, drug smuggling, robbery, etc．
?The author intends to tell the readers that__________．A.the United States is a wealthy country although poverty and crime exist there
B.crime has become a serious problem in the United States, although it is said to be a prosperous one
C.despite the fact that crimes have been increasing rapidly in the United States, it is a country of prosperity
D.in spite of stories about poverty and crime in the United States, it is prospering at an increasing rate答案：B解析：根据文章第一段第一句话可知，美国尽管繁荣，但还是存在贫困，而且还存在不断增长的高犯罪率。只有B选项符合题意。 -
第5题：
Passage Three
Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following．It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat．New types of diet plans are always coming out．Usually,though,they don't stay popular for long．
There are many diets on the market．It is often difficult to know which ones really work．It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds．A lot has been written about dieting．And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered．
For example,did you know that the more celery you eat,the more weight you will lose?Celery has“negative”calories．The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself．
Dieters?shun?potatoes because they think they are fattening．But they aren't．A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple．To gain a single pound,you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes!
Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps．But they have nothing to worry about．The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie．Maybe a diet of post-age stamps would be popular?
One could conclude from this passage that______A.dieting is not a healthy practice
B.everyone diets
C.there is only one good way to lose weight
D.dieting can be confusing答案：D解析：暂无解析 -
第6题：
Passage Three
Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following．It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat．New types of diet plans are always coming out．Usually,though,they don't stay popular for long．
There are many diets on the market．It is often difficult to know which ones really work．It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds．A lot has been written about dieting．And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered．
For example,did you know that the more celery you eat,the more weight you will lose?Celery has“negative”calories．The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself．
Dieters?shun?potatoes because they think they are fattening．But they aren't．A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple．To gain a single pound,you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes!
Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps．But they have nothing to worry about．The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie．Maybe a diet of post-age stamps would be popular?
Celery is a good food for the dieter because______A.it has a lot of protein
B.vegetables are not fattening
C.it has“negative”calories
D.it is easy to digest答案：C解析：暂无解析 -
第7题：
Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.
Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the text?A.New Law Takes Effect
B.Technology Goes Cheap
C.Average Is Over
D.Recession Is Bad答案：C解析：主旨题【命题思路】主旨题需要结合文章的结构以及核心话题进行选择。【直击答案】从整个文章的脉络来看，第一段揭示了科技进步给人们带来的影响。第二、三段指出科技的进步引起工厂自动化水平提高，普通员工如果没有竞争力和突出优势，就很容易失去工作，因此也对员工提出了更高的要求。第四段指出员工只有不断地提高自己的教育水平，才能脱颖而出。最后一段点明主题，average is officially over。所以正确答案为C。【干扰排除】A项所提到的新法案实施仅仅是局部细节，非全篇的主要话题；B项则是文章第三段中提出的目前就业市场的一个现状，属于论据；D项文中并未提到，属于无中生有。 -
第8题：
Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.
According to Paragraph 3,to be a successful employee,one has to____A.work on cheap software
B.ask for a moderate salary
C.adopt an average lifestyle
D.contribute something unique答案：D解析：细节题【命题思路】细节题。根据题干关键词“Paragraph 3”和“a successful employee”回文定位，将题干与原文信息进行匹配。【直击答案】文章第三段最后一句指出“Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.”（因此，人人都需要有另外的价值，异于常人的独特价值能够让他们在各自的雇佣市场上脱颖而出。）题干的“to be a successful employee”与原文中的“that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment”是同义替换，“everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution”与D项中的“contribute something unique”是同义替换，所以D项正确。【干扰排除】A、B两个选项的干扰来自于文章第三段倒数第二句话，文章明确指出雇主现在可以获得廉价的工作软件和廉价的劳动力……所以拥有一般水平是不行的，这两者并非是成为成功职员的条件，故不正确。C项与第三段的第一、二句话意思相违悖。 -
第9题：
问答题Directions： Please write an essay in about 150 words entitled “Water Shortage” based on the following outline. The first sentence has been given. Outline： （1）Water shortage has become much more serious than before. （2）The chief reasons for water shortage. （3）My suggestions.正确答案：
Water shortage has become much more serious than before. According to the statistics. 2.2 billion people in 62 countries are facing the shortage of fresh water in the world; there is 300 million people in 26 countries are severely short of water. It is expected that other eight countries will join the 26 countries for severely lacking water in 2010 and 2.7 billion people around the world will face the problem of severe water short-age in 2025.
The chief reason for water shortage is the low efficiency of water using. As we can see, some water can be reused. For example, we can use the water that we have used to wash clothes, to rinse the toilet. As statistics show, one ton of water will be used while one ton of paper is produced. But with the use of recycled water, the consumption of water can be reduced to half ton. Obviously, with the use of recycled water, the water use efficiency will increase, thus a great lot of water can be saved. But unfortunately, in most of the countries, many companies, particularly in some industries that consume masses of water every day, such as paper making and steel making, haven’t built up their recycle system of water. Lots of water is directly drained without recycling everyday.
So how to build up more recycle system of water has become most pressing business that can solve the water shortage problem.解析：
这是一篇问题解决型作文。要严格按照提纲中的三个要点来安排作文的结构。第一段首句引用已给出的句子直入主题，下面可用事实支持主题，可用一些数字使事实更具说服力，也可引用现实生活中的实例引起人们的共鸣；第二段具体分析产生水资源缺乏的原因；第三段针对以上原因提出解决问题的办法。
【闪光词汇】
reuse v. 重新使用，再利用
rinse v. 冲洗，冲掉
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第10题：
单选题We can conclude from the passage about nuclear fusion EXCEPT ______.Ait has great potential to produce abundant clean energy
BNIF has just finished constructing a practical fusion reactor
Cextreme temperatures are needed to work it
Dit has not been successfully used to produce net energy gain in labs
正确答案： D解析：
题目问的是：我们不能从文中得出核聚变的什么信息？根据文章第1段中的“The US has finished constructing a huge physics experiment—NIF”可知，美国结束了NIF的大型物理试验，而不是NIF结束聚变反应堆。故选B。 -
第11题：
单选题_____AThe man doesn’t like the climate in Chicago.
BThe woman likes Chicago very much.
CThe woman has just been to Chicago.
DThe man knows little about Chicago.
正确答案： C解析：
细节题。女士正在咨询男士有关芝加哥的一些问题。男士说除了糟糕的天气外，那边都比较好。所以我们可以看出，男士不喜欢芝加哥的天气。所以正确答案为A。
【录音原文】
W: I’m going to Chicago. What’s it like there?
M: Everything is OK except for the terrible climate.
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第12题：
单选题The author intends to tell the readers that _____.Athe United States is a wealthy country although poverty and crime exist there
Bcrime has become a serious problem in the United States, although it is said to be a prosperous one
Cdespite the fact that crimes have been increasing rapidly in the United States, it is a country of prosperity
Din spite of stories about poverty and crime in the United States, it is prospering at an increasing rate
正确答案： B解析：
根据文章第一段第一句话可知，美国尽管繁荣，但还是存在贫困，而且还存在不断增长的高犯罪率。只有B项符合题意。 -
第13题：
The report from NHTSA suggests that .
A. fewer people were injured in crosswalks
B. crosswalk safety has been greatly improved
C. much has been done to reduce traffic accidents
D. pedestrian deaths in crosswalk remain a serious problem
正确答案：D
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第14题：
the first factory in the united states was a cotton textile mill in pawtucket, in the state of___________.
A. Rhode Island
B. New York
C. Connecticut
D. Georgia
参考答案：A
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第15题：
He is talking so much about America as if he ____ there.
A、had been
B、has been
C、was
D、been
正确答案：A
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第16题：
Passage Three
Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following．It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat．New types of diet plans are always coming out．Usually,though,they don't stay popular for long．
There are many diets on the market．It is often difficult to know which ones really work．It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds．A lot has been written about dieting．And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered．
For example,did you know that the more celery you eat,the more weight you will lose?Celery has“negative”calories．The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself．
Dieters?shun?potatoes because they think they are fattening．But they aren't．A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple．To gain a single pound,you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes!
Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps．But they have nothing to worry about．The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie．Maybe a diet of post-age stamps would be popular?
This passage is all about______A.vegetables
B.fads
C.Americans
D.dieting答案：D解析：暂无解析 -
第17题：
Passage Three
Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following．It seems that Americans like to diet almost as much as they like to eat．New types of diet plans are always coming out．Usually,though,they don't stay popular for long．
There are many diets on the market．It is often difficult to know which ones really work．It's also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to shed pounds．A lot has been written about dieting．And some interesting facts about diets and foods have been discovered．
For example,did you know that the more celery you eat,the more weight you will lose?Celery has“negative”calories．The body burns up more calories digesting a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself．
Dieters?shun?potatoes because they think they are fattening．But they aren't．A potato has about the same number of calories as an apple．To gain a single pound,you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes!
Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps．But they have nothing to worry about．The glue on an average stamp has only about one-tenth of a calorie．Maybe a diet of post-age stamps would be popular?
The shun is to______A.love
B.hate
C.avoid
D.fear答案：C解析：暂无解析 -
第18题：
Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.
The joke in Paragraph 1 is used to illustrate____A.the impact of technological advances
B.the alleviation of job pressure
C.the shrinkage of textile mills
D.the decline of middleclass incomes答案：A解析：推理题【命题思路】首段给出的笑话是论据，用于说明作者在上文或者下文提出的论点，解题的关键在找出论点。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“the joke”定位到首段。答案所在句为the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated，A项中的technological advances正好对应了原文中出现的“automated”，故为正确答案。【干扰排除】B项文中并未提及，属于无中生有；选项C属于就例子说例子，不正确；选项D文章第二段确实提到了，但是与题干中的笑话无关，因此不正确。 -
第19题：
Text 1 In an essay entitled“Making It in America”,the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated:The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog.The man is there to feed the dog,and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middleclass incomes today is also because of the advances in both globalization and the information technology revolution,which are more rapidly than ever replacing labor with machines or foreign worker.In the past,workers with average skills,doing an average job，could earn an average lifestyle.But，today，average is officially over.Being average just won't earn you what it used to.It can't when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor,cheap robotics,cheap software,cheap automation and cheap genius.Therefore,everyone needs to find their extra—their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.Yes,new technology has been eating jobs forever,and always will.But there's been acceleration.As Davidson notes,“In the 10 years ending in 2009,U.S.factories shed workers so fast that they erased almost all the gains of the previous 70 years;roughly one out of every three manufacturing jobs—about 6 million in total—disappeared.”There will always be change—new jobs,new products,new services.But the one thing we know for sure is that with each advance in globalization and the I.T.revolution,the best jobs will require workers to have more and better education to make themselves above average.In a world where average is officially over,there are many things we need to do to support employment,but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I.Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to posthigh school education.
The quotation in Paragraph 4 explains that_____A.gains of technology have been erased
B.job opportunities are disappearing at a high speed
C.factories are making much less money than before
D.new jobs and services have been offered答案：B解析：推理题【命题思路】虽然从形式上来说，本题考查的是对一个句子意思的理解，但实际上这是作者引用Davidson的话来说明他在上文提出的论点，因此这道题的解题关键在于把握引用句子前面的部分。【直击答案】根据题干定位到第四段，首句指出作者提出的观点：新技术不断吞噬工作，而且现在的速度在加快。后面引用的话语是对这个论点的具体说明，选项B中的“job opportunities”与原文的“job”相对应，“are disappearing at a high speed”与原文“has been eating jobs”以及“there's been acceleration”相对应，故为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项和C都是对引号中的局部信息设置的干扰项，均属于张冠李戴。D项是无中生有信息。 -
第20题：
Which of the following best states the author’s attitude toward the information that scholars have gathered about Proust’s writing in 1909？( )A.The author is disappointed that no new documents have come to light since Fallois’speculations.
B.The author is dissatisfied because there are too many gaps and inconsistencies in the drafts.
C.The author is confident that Fallois’s 1954 guess has been proved largely correct，but regrets that still more detailed documentation concerning Proust’s transition from the essay to the novel has not emerged.
D.The author is satisfied that the facts of Proust’s life in 1909 have been thoroughly established，but believes such documents as drafts and correspondence are only of limited value in a critical assessment of Proust’s writing.答案：C解析：
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第21题：
单选题From the text we can conclude that ______.Athe writer is enthusiastically supporting the National Lottery
Bthe writer has objections to the National Lottery
Cthe writer believes that the lottery money should be used for cancer research
Dthe writer is just expressing her feelings about collecting money for charity
正确答案： B解析：
作者通文都在反对国家彩票，故A项是错误的；B项是正确的；C项过于片面和绝对，用于癌症研究只是彩票业收入的一个应用点；D项“只表达一下自己对为慈善事业筹钱的感受”显然不能概括作者对彩票业与慈善事业关系的看法。故选B。 -
第22题：
问答题Directions： Please write an essay in 160-200 words entitled “Water Shortage” based on the following outline. The first sentence has been given. Outline： （1）Water shortage has become much more serious than before. （2）The chief reasons for water shortage. （3）My suggestions.正确答案：
Water shortage has become much more serious than before. According to the statistics. 2.2 billion people in 62 countries are facing the shortage of fresh water in the world; there is 300 million people in 26 countries are severely short of water. It is expected that other eight countries will join the 26 countries for severely lacking water in 2010 and 2.7 billion people around the world will face the problem of severe water short-age in 2025.
The chief reason for water shortage is the low efficiency of water using. As we can see, some water can be reused. For example, we can use the water that we have used to wash clothes, to rinse the toilet. As statistics show, one ton of water will be used while one ton of paper is produced. But with the use of recycled water, the consumption of water can be reduced to half ton. Obviously, with the use of recycled water, the water use efficiency will increase, thus a great lot of water can be saved. But unfortunately, in most of the countries, many companies, particularly in some industries that consume masses of water every day, such as paper making and steel making, haven’t built up their recycle system of water. Lots of water is directly drained without recycling everyday.
So how to build up more recycle system of water has become most pressing business that can solve the water shortage problem.解析： 这是一篇问题解决型作文。要严格按照提纲中的三个要点来安排作文的结构。第一段首句引用已给出的句子直入主题，下面可用事实支持主题，可用一些数字使事实更具说服力，也可引用现实生活中的实例引起人们的共鸣；第二段具体分析产生水资源缺乏的原因；第三段针对以上原因提出解决问题的办法。
【闪光词汇】
reuse v. 重新使用，再利用
rinse v. 冲洗，冲掉
drain v. 排水；流干 -
第23题：
单选题Which of the following sentence best responds to “But it will be much easier.., than to conceal the gulf that exists within Europe itself” in para. 13?ABut some of Europe’s leaders are unwilling to take lessons from the country they blame for creating this crises.
BIt is true that Mr. Obama’s focus has been on trying to rebuild ties with Europe.
CI am only using Germany to prove the point that Europe does not speak with one voice.
DNo one else is talking about “a global new deal”.
正确答案： A解析：
题目问的是：下列哪一项最能回应“比起隐藏欧洲内部已存在的分歧，……要简单得多”选项C意为“我只是用德国来证明欧洲并没有统一口径”，两者都说的是欧盟各成员国之间存在分歧。故C正确。