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    There's something rotten in Rio and the smell is coming from the huge stacks of rubbish pried up on sidewalks all over the city. Rio's street sweepers chose the carnival holiday to demand better salaries. Their wages start at roughly $400 a month.
There could hardly be a better time for them to prove their importance. The streets were left a mess after hundreds of carnival parades and now, rubbish pries up in both poor and uptown neighbourhoods and in tourist areas like Ipanema or Copacabana beach.                                                                                                                                         
The president of Rio's rubbish collecting company has even appealed to the population to store rubbish at home whenever possible. He says 30% of the city's sweepers have gone on strike. Some of those who have been working have been threatened by the strike movement so now the police has been deployed alongside rubbish collectors to keep them sage as they go about their business.
The strike has divided opinions in Rio. On social media, many support the sweepers' demands for better salaries. Others say they are opportunists and the situation is a big embarrassment to the city.
But Brazil's culture of littering the streets doesn't help. A video that went viral online shows that even authorities have a problem with that. Rio's mayor, Eduardo Paes, is seen throwing what seemed to be the rest of an apple on the sidewalk--and now promised to impose himself a fine for his wrongdoing. His government recently created a programme to keep Rio's residents from littering the streets.
小題1:Rio's street cleaners go on strike to

A．prove their importance	B．threaten the government
C．a(chǎn)sk for higher salaries	D．a(chǎn)ppeal to the public not to litter

小題2:The reason why the police are involved is that __

A．the police are called out to put down the riot	B．the police are required to protect some cleaners
C．the police are to collect rubbish for the time being	D．the police are sent to arrest people who litter around

小題3:The author's attitude to Brazil's culture of littering is __

A．hopeless

B．a(chǎn)pproving

C．critical

D．optimistic

小題4: The purpose of writing the passage is to __

A．criticize, street sweepers of Rio for misusing their rights

B．call attention to the embarrassing situation of Rio

C．describe the effect or the strike on people

D．inform people of the present situation of Rio

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:D

本文主要介紹了巴西首都里約的清潔工在狂歡節(jié)以后開始了罷工，要求政府增加他們的工資，同時也介紹了政府對于這一事件的處理。
小題1:C
【試題解析】細節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段第2行Rio's street sweepers chose the carnival holiday to demand better salaries.可知里約的清潔工罷工是因為他們要求更高的工資。故C正確。
小題2:B
【試題解析】推理題。根據(jù)文章第三段最后2行Some of those who have been working have been threatened by the strike movement so now the police has been deployed alongside rubbish collectors to keep them sage as they go about their business.可知一些不愿意罷工的清潔工人被別的人威脅以至于政府要排除警察來保護他們的安全。故B正確。
小題3:C
【試題解析】推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段1,2行But Brazil's culture of littering the streets doesn't help. A video that went viral online shows that even authorities have a problem with that.可知culture of littering the streets對于時態(tài)的發(fā)展并沒有什么幫助�？芍�作者對此持批評的態(tài)度。故C正確。
小題4:D
【試題解析】主旨大意題。本文主要介紹了巴西首都里約的清潔工在狂歡節(jié)以后開始了罷工，要求政府增加他們的工資，同時也介紹了政府對于這一事件的處理。說明本文主要是告訴我們里約現(xiàn)在的具體情況的。故D正確。
【長難句解析】
1.There could hardly be a better time for them to prove their importance.
【翻譯】不可能有比這更好的時間來證明他們的重要性了。
【分析】本句中考察了形容詞比較級的特殊用法，形容詞的比較級和否定詞連用表示最高級的含義，hardly…better…不可能更好，說明這是最好的。
2. Some of those who have been working have been threatened by the strike movement so now the police has been deployed alongside rubbish collectors to keep them sage as they go about their business.
【翻譯】那些一直在工作的人已經(jīng)被罷工的人威脅以至于政府已經(jīng)派出了警察在這些人工作的時候進行保護。
【分析】本句中的have been working是一個現(xiàn)在完成進行時，表示動作從過去開始，一直持續(xù)到現(xiàn)在，而且還在發(fā)生，強調(diào)動作的持續(xù)性和反復性�，F(xiàn)在完成時更多強調(diào)過去動作對現(xiàn)在的影響，和持續(xù)到現(xiàn)在。