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 comer 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 thanl2 words）
小題3:What's the situation of education m 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）

小題1:developed (quickly)(形式及時態(tài)錯不給分)
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：本文主要談?wù)摰氖鞘澜缟县毨У闹饕颉?br />小題1:從文章which employed a lot of African-American people．both of which employ only skilled and trained people．可知以前重工業(yè)發(fā)達的時候，雇傭了很多的非洲裔的美國人，而現(xiàn)在不一樣了很多人失業(yè)了，故應(yīng)該是發(fā)達的，故填developed
小題2:從This is simple math: If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor．可知此處的原因是因為有更多的人需要吃飯，又沒有多少收入的來源。故填Because there are more mouths to feed and less income.
小題3:從文章If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low．可知在不發(fā)達地區(qū)，人們的教育水平非常低。
小題4:從文章Poverty can be found in each and every comer of the world, although the causes may differ from country to country．Given below are the main causes of poverty in the world today．可知本文主要談?wù)摰氖鞘澜缟县毨У闹饕颉?br />小題5:可以從缺乏教育或是缺乏基本的技能和致富的想法上去說明，答案可不同。
點評：此類文體對貧困引起的原因進行了說明闡述，對各個主要的原因進行了詳細的說明。本文不難，對于此類的說明文的閱讀，學(xué)生需要先采用將第一自然段及下面每段的第一句話進行閱讀，進而看第一題，第一題如果是主旨類的題型可先不做，做第二題。如此帶著問題在文章中找答案，既節(jié)約時間又正確率高。
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