Question

Poverty today is a major global issue. Although there are all kinds of definitions used to explain it, in simple words, it means the inability of a person to even get his basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, safe drinking water, health and education. Poverty can be found in each and every corner of the world, although the causes may differ from country to country. Given below are the main causes of poverty in the world today.
Overpopulation is one of the main causes behind the threatening of poverty on an individual level as well as a social level. This is simple math. If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor.
Another theory which is used as an explanation for poverty is lack of education. If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low. Lack of education means lack of employment opportunities, thus leading to unemployment coupled with poverty in the future.
Moving away from one’s own homeland to another city or country in search of employment leads to poverty too. It may take these people a lot of time to find jobs. Meanwhile they live in bad conditions. The cost of living in the city or country is most of the time too high for them.
There may be other causes of poverty like the change in business. For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people. But now, the focus is more on information technology and health care, both of which employ only skilled and trained people. This has led to unemployment among African-Americans.
Poverty has many ill effects on society. That’s why steps should be taken to get rid of it!
小題1:What’s the meaning of the underlined word “flourished” in Paragraph 5?
(No more than 5 words)
小題2:Why is overpopulation a cause of poverty today?  (No more than12 words)
小題3:What’s the situation of education in underdeveloped countries?  (No more than 8 words)
小題4:What does the passage mainly talk about?   (No more than 10 words)
小題5:In your opinion, what’s the most significant cause of poverty today? Please give your reason.  (No more than 25 words)

Answer 1

小題1:developed（quickly）（ 形式及時(shí)態(tài)錯(cuò)不給分）
小題2: Because there’re more mouths to feed and less income.
小題3: The level of education is very low.
小題4:Main causes of poverty in the world today.
小題5:Lack of education. People without good education can’t adapt to society, so they’re much likely to suffer from poverty. （答案可不同）

試題分析：文章主要分析了貧窮的原因：人口太多，教育太低等都是貧窮的原因。
小題1:developed（quickly）（ 形式及時(shí)態(tài)錯(cuò)不給分）
推理題。根據(jù)本句For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people. 可知很多年前，美國(guó)的重工業(yè)發(fā)展很快，雇傭了很多的工人。故該詞是指迅速發(fā)展。
小題2:Because there’re more mouths to feed and less income.
細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段最后一句If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor.
小題3:The level of education is very low.
細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段第2句If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low.
小題4:Main causes of poverty in the world today.
主旨大意題。文章主要分析了貧窮的原因：人口太多，教育太低等都是貧窮的原因。
小題5:Lack of education. People without good education can’t adapt to society, so they’re much likely to suffer from poverty. （答案可不同）
本題要求考生給出自己認(rèn)為的貧窮的原因，不同的人觀點(diǎn)不同。建議把教育水平低當(dāng)成貧窮的主要原因。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章主要分析了貧窮的原因：人口太多，教育太低等都是貧窮的原因。文考查細(xì)節(jié)題為主，細(xì)節(jié)題可以在文章中直接找到與答案有關(guān)的信息?或是其變體。搜查信息在閱讀中非常重要它包括理解作者在敘述某事時(shí)使用的具體事實(shí)、數(shù)據(jù)、圖表等細(xì)節(jié)信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都屬于這類圍繞主體展開(kāi)的細(xì)節(jié)。