older and play for local school teams, they become competitive but they still enjoy playing.” 且不是段落大意，选项 “C”中 “for the individuals”错误，应该是 “for the entire nation’s hopes, dreams and reputation”,故选择D
3. C 根据最后一段 “Not really, but it’s nice to know that you won and that in one way at least
your country is the best.” 表明本句运用了一种比喻，增加了阿根廷在世界地位的重要性。 4. B 根据下文中 “ Last year thousands of Scots sold their cars, and even their houses, and
spent all their money travelling to Argentina, where the finals were played.” 球迷们为了去阿根廷看球赛卖车卖房，是非常不理智性的行为。故选择B
(C)
In the 1990s, when an area of Brazilian rainforest the size of Belgium was cut down every year, Brazil was the world’s environmental villain (反派角色) and the Amazonian jungles the image of everything that was going wrong in green places. Now, the Amazon ought to be the image of what is going right. Government figures show that deforestation fell by 70% in the
Brazilian Amazon region during the past decade. If clearances had continued at their rate in 2005, an extra 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide would have been put into the atmosphere. That is an amount equal to a year’s emissions from the European Union. Arguably, then, Brazil is now the world leader in addressing climate change.
But how did it break the vicious cycle (恶性循环)? The answer, according to a paper is that there was no silver bullet but instead a three-stage process in which bans, better governance in frontier areas and consumer pressure on companies worked.
The first stage ran from the mid-1990s to 2004. This was when the government put its efforts into bans and restrictions. The Brazilian Forest Code said that, on every farm in the Amazon, 80% of the land had to be set aside as a forest reserve. As the study observes, this share was so high that
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