首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
They may not be the richest, but Africans remain the world’s staunchest optimists. An annual survey by Gallup International, a r
They may not be the richest, but Africans remain the world’s staunchest optimists. An annual survey by Gallup International, a r
admin
2016-12-28
62
问题
They may not be the richest, but Africans remain the world’s staunchest optimists. An annual survey by Gallup International, a research outfit, shows that, when asked whether this year will be better than last, Africa once again comes out on top. Out of 52,000 people interviewed all over the world, under half believe that things are looking up. But in Africa the proportion is close to 60%—almost twice as much as in Europe.
Africans have some reasons to be cheerful. The continent’s economy has been doing fairly well with South Africa, the economic powerhouse, growing steadily over the past few years. Some of Africa’s long-running conflicts, such as the war between the north and south in Sudan and the civil war in Congo, have ended. Africa even has its first elected female head of state, in Liberia.
Yet there is no shortage of downers too. Most of Africa remains dirt poor. Crises in places like Cote d’Ivoire, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe are far from solved. And the democratic credentials of Ethiopia and Uganda, once the darlings of western donors, have taken a bad knock. AIDS killed over 2 million Africans in 2005, and will kill more this year.
So is it all just a case of irrational exuberance? Meril James of Gallup argues that there is, in fact, usually very little relation between the survey’s optimism rankings and reality. Africans, this year led by Nigerians, are consistently the most upbeat, whether their lot gets better or not. On the other hand, Greece— hardly the worst place on earth—tops the gloom-and-doom chart, followed closely by Portugal and France.
Ms James speculates that religion may have a lot to do with it. Nine out of ten Africans are religious, the highest proportion in the world. But cynics argue that most Africans believe that 2006 will be golden because things have been so bad that it is hard to imagine how they could possibly get worse. This may help explain why places that have suffered recent misfortunes, such as Kosovo and Afghanistan, rank among the top five optimists. Moussaka for thought for those depressed Greeks.
The conclusion made by Ms James, according to the text, is________.
选项
A、tentative
B、immutable
C、impeccable
D、moderate
答案
A
解析
这是一道细节题,测试考生对原文词语的准确理解能力。本题的答案信息来源在尾段的首句,该句的大意是:“詹姆斯女士推断(speculates)宗教也许和非洲人的乐观有很大的关系”。从此句中的“speculates”一词可以判定:詹姆斯女士所得出的相关结论是“尝试性的、非结论性的”。故本题的正确选项应该是A“tentative”(试探性的,不确定的,非决定性的)。考生在阅读时应注意原文词语的准确含义。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/SCoZ777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Insomecountries,societalandfamilialtreatmentoftheelderlyusuallyreflectsagreatdegreeofindependenceandindividual
Insomecountries,societalandfamilialtreatmentoftheelderlyusuallyreflectsagreatdegreeofindependenceandindividual
Insomecountries,societalandfamilialtreatmentoftheelderlyusuallyreflectsagreatdegreeofindependenceandindividual
Insomecountries,societalandfamilialtreatmentoftheelderlyusuallyreflectsagreatdegreeofindependenceandindividual
Insomecountries,societalandfamilialtreatmentoftheelderlyusuallyreflectsagreatdegreeofindependenceandindividual
Marriageis,formanypeople,theirmostimportantrelationship,thesourceofmuchhappiness,and,forsome,evenaddsextraye
Aperson’shomeisasmuchareflectionofhispersonalityastheclotheshewears,thefoodheeatsandthefriendswithwhomh
Inrecentdecades,scientistshavebecomeincreasinglyawareoftheparttheobserver【C1】______inthescientificprocess.Inthe
Whetherwewantitornotweareallgreedybynature.Fromthemomentweare【C1】______andtothelastdayofourlifewe【C2】___
Today,atthepushofabutton,youcandownloadandprintthewholeofDante’sDivineComedy,usingonlyacomputer,anInterne
随机试题
有关行政复议、行政诉讼和国家赔偿的法律、法规实施情况,一般不属于公安机关法制部门执法监督的职责范围。()
不能耐受秋水仙碱和非甾体抗炎药的急性痛风可选用
硒具有抗过氧化作用,因为硒
城市规划强制性内容是指省域城镇体系规划、城市总体规划、城市详细规划中涉及区域协调发展、()、环境保护、风景名胜资源管理、自然与文化遗产保护、公众利益和公共安全等方面的内容。
高压成套配电柜和箱式变电站的安装以“台”为计量单位,安装内容包括( )。
营业账簿应纳印花税为()元。除加工承揽合同外的其余应税凭证应纳印花税总额为()元。
根据企业所得税的规定,以下关于资产税务处理的表述中,错误的是()。
在实际情况中,生产控制的基本程序包括()。
IEEE802.11i所采用的加密算法为______。
某二叉树中度为2的结点有18个,则该二叉树中有______个叶子结点。
最新回复
(
0
)