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D. Lovers send gifts and cards through the mail system.
26. What is the cost of printing a message in USA Today to show one’s love? A. For free. B. A few dollars. C. Less than 80 dollars. D. 80 dollars and more.
27. What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce the origin of Valentine’s day and its modern style. B. To advertise for the newspaper—USA Today.
C. To tell you that Americans are open to express their love. D. To call on all the lovers to remember Saint Valentine forever.
本文是一篇说明文。本文介绍了介绍情人节的起源以及情侣们庆祝节日的方式，例如把名字写在纸上，互相送情人节卡片，寄送礼物和卡片等，现在美国还出现了通过登报来表达爱意的方式。
【答案】24. A 25. C 26. D 27. A
24. 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段中“Valentine was killed for his Christian beliefs on February 14 more than 1,700 years ago”可知，1700年前瓦伦丁在2月14日因为他的基督信仰而被杀，可知他生活的年代应该是more than 1,700 years ago。故选A。
25. 【解析】细节理解题。根据第二段的lovers still put their names on pieces of paper and they send each other Valentine’s Day cards that tell of their love. Sometimes they also send gifts, like flowers or chocolate candy. Americans usually send these gifts and cards through the mail system.可知，情侣们庆祝情人节，把他们的名字写在纸上，互相送情人节卡表达爱，有时他们也送礼物，美国人通常使用邮递寄送礼物和卡片。所以A、B、D三项正确，但是他们并不在电视节目中讲爱情故事。故选C。
26. 【解析】细节理解题。根据最后一段“These messages cost 80 dollars and more”可知，这些信息要花费80美元甚至更多，故选D。
27. 【解析】主旨大意题。本文介绍了情人节，第一段说明了情人节的起源来历，第二段介绍了情人节表达爱意的方式，第三段交代了在报纸上表达爱意的现代方式，综合各段大意，本文写作目的是介绍情人节起源以及现代的表达方式。故选A。
【点睛】细节理解题就是我们常见的wh-题，它们大多是根据文章中的具体信息如事实、例证、原因、过程、论述等进行提问的。抓住文段中的事实和细节是做好该题型的关键，也是做好其它类型问题的基础。该题型几乎都可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息，或是其变体。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法，即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题和选项有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。
例如本题第1小题，Which time period did Saint Valentine live in?为细节理解题。我们在原文中第一段发现了本题题干中的定位词“Saint Valentine”，原文是这样的“Valentine was killed for his Christian beliefs on February 14 more than 1,700 years ago”可知，1700年前瓦伦丁在2月14日死于他的基督信仰，可知他生活的年代也应该是more than 1,700 years ago。故选A。
再如第2小题，细节理解题。根据第二段内容lovers still put their names on pieces of paper and they send each other Valentine’s Day cards that tell of their love. Sometimes they also send gifts, like flowers or chocolate candy. Americans usually send these gifts and cards through the mail system.可知，情侣们庆祝情人节，把他们的名字写在纸上，互相送情人节卡表达爱，有时他们也送礼物，美国人通常使用邮递寄送礼物和卡片。所以A、B、D三项正确, 但是他们并不在电视节目中讲爱情故事。故选C。
C
Nelson Mandela is respected and admired around the world. And to South Africans he is a superstar. He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace between races, despite the 27 years he spent in the prison of the South Africa’s white, racist regime (种族主义政权).
Mandela who won the nation’s first all-race elections after the fall of apartheid (种族隔离) in 1994, retired in 1999. But he remains as popular as ever. His popularity has inspired an entire national industry. His portrait (肖像) has appeared at many places, including on some goods. His face has appeared on a South African coin, and some business leaders hope to build a statue in his likeness—the Statue of Freedom. It would stand taller than New York’s Statue of Liberty.
“His popularity is similar to that of John F. Kennedy with US or Winston Churchill in Britain, but few politicians in his times have achieved his level of admiration,” said Tom Lodge, head of
the political science department of the University of the Witwatersrand, “What a skilled performer Mandela has been throughout his political career! He’s a very, very clever man.”
However, he is far from perfect. Most articles for his birthday, which appeared in every major South African newspaper on the day, briefly mentioned that Mandela did have his shortcomings.
Then they returned to their flowing praises. “Through the ages, the human race has had its icons (偶像)—men and women who rose above ordinary people to inspire their generations,” The Mail and Guardian Weekly said. “In our generation, the gods presented us Nelson Mandela.”
28. Mandela is a hero to South Africans because ________. A. he’s as popular as Kennedy and Churchill B. he spent 27 years in prison
C. he’s a great fighter against the racialism D. he’s the first all-race elections president 29. What can we learn about Mandela? A. He is not so popular as before.
B. His portrait has appeared on some goods. C. He is the greatest politician in history. D. He did not realize his own shortcomings.
30. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ______. A. Mandela was as great as a god B. we are proud to live in Mandela’s times C. Mandela often gave presents to others D. we are proud to know Mandela 31. What can be the best title of the article? A. The Statue of Freedom in South Africa B. South Africa’s white, racist regime C. Mandela, the hero to South Africans D. Mandela, Kennedy and Churchill
本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了纳尔逊·曼德拉的生平事迹，曼德拉是一个为种族间的和平而战震惊世界的英雄，在全世界都受到尊敬和钦佩。在世界上留下了巨大的影响力。他渗透了几代南非人的心灵。
【答案】28. C 29. B 30. B 31. C
28. 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace between races可知，曼德拉被南非人民热爱是因为他一生都在为争取和平、反对种族歧视奋斗，故选C。
29. 【解析】细节理解题。根据第二段His portrait(肖像) has appeared at many places, including on some goods. 可知，他的肖像已经出现在许多地方,包括一些商品上，故选B。
30. 【解析】句意猜测题。文章最后一段的划线部分为In our generation, the gods presented us Nelson Mandela. (在我们这一代，上帝将Nelson Mandela赠给了我们)，因为Nelson Mandela是人类的英雄与偶像，所以这句话的意思是“我们很自豪能生活在曼德拉时代”，故本题答案为B。
31. 【解析】主旨大意题。根据全文内容总结，尤其是第一段Nelson Mandela is respected and admired around the world. And to South Africans he is a superstar. He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace between races和最后一段可知，纳尔逊·曼德拉在全世界都受到尊敬和钦佩，对南非人来说，他是一个英雄。故C项是最佳标题。
D
The World Happiness Report, a United Nations agency report, measures (估量) how happy people are, and why. Norway is the happiest place on earth—beating neighbour Denmark from the number one position.
Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and Finland are among the top five, while the Central African Republic came last. Western Europe and North America took up most of the places at the top of table, with the US and UK at 14th and 19th respectively.
The World Happiness Report mainly depends on asking a simple question of more than 1,000 people every year in more than 150 countries. “Imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top,” the question asks. “The top of the ladder is the best possible life for