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The "Occupy Wall Street" movement gained more support on Wednesday as unions and students joined in. With the protests developing from a group of young people's camping out near the New York Stock Exchange on September 17 to large-scale (大規(guī)模的) movements across the country and around the world, people can't help asking: What has led to "Occupy Wall Street?"

Three years after the severe economic crisis, the U.S. economy now is stuck again. Protesters are not satisfied with the present economic situation since unemployment rate is above 9 percent and economic growth has slowed. The housing market is still struggling for a recovery three years after the bubble (泡沫) burst. People are losing their houses even after they have paid a large amount of mortgage(抵押). It is getting difficult for young people to find jobs. People feared that a similar crisis like the one in 2008 may be already on its way.

It is Wall Street that possessed the most riches. It is Wall Street greed that, at least partly, led to the financial crisis in 2008. It was Wall Street's "fat cats" who take taxpayers' aid money as their own big bonus (獎(jiǎng)金). With the growing economic crisis around the world, people realize that Wall Street is responsible for it. So they try to target people who created the crisis.

The majority of the protesters are young people under 30. Many of them are unemployed. Some are students with mountains of loans (貸款). Some are hard-working people about to lose their houses even if they have paid a large amount of mortgage. They are complaining that the hard-working middle class is getting poor, yet Wall Street stays wealthy.

William Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the world, wrote recently that Wall Street not only learned nothing from the 2008 crisis, they are also trying to kill all reforms that might "break this dangerous cycle in which bankers get very rich while the rest of working people suffer from their mistakes."

1.. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The cause of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

B. The demand of the protesters of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

C. The popularity of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

D. The development of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.

2.. According to the second paragraph, what set off the “Occupy Wall Street” movement?

A. The housing market.                                              B. The bad economic situation.

C. The mortgage                                     D. The high unemployment rate.

3.. We can learn from the passage that Wall Street is the symbol of          in the USA.

A. civilization          B. power                         C. wealth             D. fashion

4. We can infer that William Cohan         .

A. is the organizer of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement

B. lives on Wall Street

C. is against the “Occupy Wall Street” movement

D. approves of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：

1.A 主旨大意題。從文章第二段開始介紹了“占領(lǐng)華爾街”運(yùn)動(dòng)的原因。故A正確。

2.B 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段第一行Three years after the severe economic crisis, the U.S. economy now is stuck again.說明正是現(xiàn)在不好的經(jīng)濟(jì)形式讓人們?cè)骱奕A爾街上的那群資本家。故B正確。

3..C 推理題。根據(jù)文章第三段第一行It is Wall Street that possessed the most riches.說明華爾街上的人擁有大量的財(cái)富，是富有的象征，故C的說法正確。

4..D 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后三行that Wall Street not only learned nothing from the 2008 crisis, they are also trying to kill all reforms that might "break this dangerous cycle in which bankers get very rich while the rest of working people suffer from their mistakes." 說明他認(rèn)為華爾街的資本家并沒有從08年的金融危機(jī)中吸取教訓(xùn)，現(xiàn)在反而變本加厲。說明他支持占領(lǐng)華爾街的做法。

考點(diǎn)：考查新聞報(bào)告類短文閱讀

點(diǎn)評(píng)：文章主要介紹了美國的占領(lǐng)華爾街的運(yùn)動(dòng)，從文章第二段開始介紹了“占領(lǐng)華爾街”運(yùn)動(dòng)的原因。以推理題的考查為主，根據(jù)詞義關(guān)系推斷具體細(xì)節(jié)，結(jié)合上下文提供的語境和信息進(jìn)行合理的概括和判斷。