泽熙美文[单选题]1.The advice for Buttonwood suggests that.（）
A.Paul Volcker enjoyed making comments on controlling inflation
B.the Federal Reserve has an all-capable power over inflation control
C.economy has the greatest influence upon the daily life of ordinary people
D.the economic sphere and bond markets are indicative of each other
正确答案：D
参考解析：第一段第一句提到“bad economic news is good news for bond markets”由此可知，D项正确
。
[单选题]2.The word “passing” (Line 8, Paragraph 1) most probably means.（）
A.instant
B.trivial
C.simple
D.negligible
正确答案：D
参考解析：由文义可知，从现任联邦储备局主席那里听到金玉良言是非常困难的，这种困难不是“微不足道的”，因此D项正确
。
[单选题]3.Which of the following is responsible for the rapid economic growth in the US?（）
A.Domestic consumers
B.Foreign investments
C.Real estate market
D.Recovering bond market
正确答案：A
参考解析：由第二段第二句可知：America’s economy grew by an annual 8. 2%in the third quarter，a full percentage point more than originally thought，driven by the ever- spend thrift American consumer and，for once，corporate investment. 由此可知A项fanciful(想像出来的，想入非非的)正确
。
[单选题]4.According to the last paragraph, most Asian central banks are becoming（）
A.rather regretful
B.less ambitious
C.more cautious
D.speculative
正确答案：C
参考解析：从文中“swallowing American government debt like there was no tomorrow”可看出作者认为大举购买国债的做法是“不谨慎”的，而下文“have had second thoughts”表明变得更加慎重
。
[单选题]5.The phrase “keep a lid on” (Line 6, Paragraph 3most probably means（）
A.put an end to
B.set a limit on
C.tighten the control over
D.reduce the speed of
正确答案：B
参考解析：本题考查词义理解。“keep a lid on”出现在最后一段倒数第二句，下文提到具体做法。根据经济常识，应选B项，表示“限制日元的升值”
。
共享题干题
Passage 1
A scorching sun，an endless sea of sand and a waterless，forbiddingly lonely land—that is the image most people have of deserts. But how true is this picture? Deserts are dry lands where rainfall is low. This is not to say rain never falls in deserts：it may fall once or twice a year in a fierce torrent that fades almost as soon as it has begun，or which evaporates in the hot air long before it has got anywhere near the earth. It may fall in a sudden sweeping flood that carries everything in its path. Rains may only come once in five or six years or not fall for a decade or more. The Mojave desert in the United States remained dry for twenty-five years.
Without water no living thing can survive，and one feature of the true desert landscape is the absence of vegetation. With little rain and hardly any vegetation the land suffers under the sun. There are virtually no clouds or trees to protect the earth’s surface and it can be burning hot. Under the sun，soils break up and
crack. Wind and torrential rain sweep away and erode the surface further. Eight million square kilometers of the world’s land surface is desert. Throughout history deserts have been expanding and retreating again. Cave paintings show that parts of the Sahara Desert were green and fertile about 10，000 years ago，and even animals like elephants and giraffes roamed the land. Fossil and dunes found in fertile and damp parts of the world show that these areas were once deserts. But now the creation of new desert areas is happening on a colossal scale. Twenty million square kilometers，an area twice the size of Canada，is at a high to very high risk of becoming desert. With a further 1.25 million square kilometers under moderate risk. An area covering 30%of the earth’s land surface is desert，becoming desert，or in danger of becoming desert. The rate of growth of deserts is alarming. The world’s dry lands which are under threat include some of the most important stock-rearing and wheat-growing areas and are the homes of 600，700 million people.
These regions are becoming deserts at the rate of more than 58，000 square kilometers a year or 44 hectares a minute. In North Africa at least l 00，000 hectares of cropland are lost each year. At this rate there is a high risk that we will be confined to living on only 50%of this planet’s land surface within one more century unless we are able to do something about it. [中国银行真题]
[单选题]1.What does the passage tell US about rainfall in the desert?（）
A.It never rains.
B.It rains so little that nothing can live.
C.It rains unexpectedly.
D.It rains very infrequently.
正确答案：D
参考解析：根据第一段的最后一句“Rains may only come once in five or six years or not fall for a decade or more. The Mojave desert in the United States remained dry for twenty-five years. ”可知，沙漠地区五六年或十多年下一次雨，即很少降雨，但不是不下雨。infrequently意为“罕见的，稀少的”，因此D项正确
。
A scorching sun，an endless sea of sand and a waterless，forbiddingly lonely land—that is the image most people have of deserts. But how true is this picture? Deserts are dry lands where rainfall is low. This is not to say rain never falls in deserts：it may fall once or twice a year in a fierce torrent that fades almost as soon as it has begun，or which evaporates in the hot air long before it has got anywhere near the earth. It may fall in a sudden sweeping flood that carries everything in its path. Rains may only come once in five or six years or not fall for a decade or more. The Mojave desert in the United States remained dry for twenty-five years.
Without water no living thing can survive，and one feature of the true desert landscape is the absence of vegetation. With little rain and hardly any vegetation the land suffers under the sun. There are virtually no clouds or trees to protect the earth’s surface and it can be burning hot. Under the sun，soils break up and
crack. Wind and torrential rain sweep away and erode the surface further. Eight million square kilometers of the world’s land surface is desert. Throughout history deserts have been expanding and retreating again. Cave paintings show that parts of the Sahara Desert were green and fertile about 10，000 years ago，and even animals like elephants and giraffes roamed the land. Fossil and dunes found in fertile and damp parts of the world show that these areas were once deserts. But now the creation of new desert areas is happening on a colossal scale. Twenty million square kilometers，an area twice the size of Canada，is at a high to very high risk of becoming desert. With a further 1.25 million square kilometers under moderate risk. An area covering 30%of the earth’s land surface is desert，becoming desert，or in danger of becoming desert. The rate of growth of deserts is alarming. The world’s dry lands which are under threat include some of the most important stock-rearing and wheat-growing areas and are the homes of 600，700 million people.
These regions are becoming deserts at the rate of more than 58，000 square kilometers a year or 44 hectares a minute. In North Africa at least l 00，000 hectares of cropland are lost each year. At this rate there is a high risk that we will be confined to living on only 50%of this planet’s land surface within one more century unless we are able to do something about it. [中国银行真题]
[单选题]2.Desert soils break up and crack because of.（）
A.the effects of wind and min
B.the lack of protection from the sun
C.the tropical location of deserts
D.the absence of rain
