干扰排除:选项C指出Details were sacrificed (细节被牺牲)直接与原文forthright detailing直接相反,可以直接排除。选项A(机械装置被广泛运用)的Mechanical devices 对应原文第三句,原文指出Ralph错误的预判了未来机械革命的影响力,证明Mechanical devices当时还未出现,A选项可以排除。选项D的Eco-friendly materials是对应原文的new materials ,但是原文没有明确指出新材料就是环保材料,因此也可以排除。
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Will the European Union make it?The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.
本段首句提问:欧盟能渡过难关吗?第二句给出回答:不久前没人认为欧盟有危机。第三句给出转折:但是现在因为债务,人口等问题大家都对欧盟产生了担忧。
本段首句+第二句和第三句构成设问+回答的结构,重点是第三句的转折,可以利用第三句设置细节题的正确选项。
As well as those chronic problems,the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core,the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone‘s economies,weaker or stronger,will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency,which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
本段首句提出另外一个欧盟面临的问题:成员国使用同种货币。第二句对此进行解释:缺乏竞争力的成员国无法应对货币的快速贬值。
从考点设置来说,本段第二句对首句进行解释,属于总分结构,可以针对首句“单一货币”设置细节题考点。但是因为下一段与本段关联紧密,因此两段合并出题概率较大。