Question

【題目】Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

Where do you think the world’s happiest people live? Somewhere hot with sandy beaches? A country with a tradition of the fine food and culture? Not according to a recent study by the university of Leicester. Who are the happiest people on Earth? 【1】 Surprised? Well you’ll be more surprised when you hear that the Danes pay some of the highest taxes in the world. So what is the secret of their success?

Let’s start with all that tax they pay. The Danish government provides its people with one of the finest education and health systems in the world. It spends more on children and elderly people per capital than other country.

And there’s another advantage to those high taxes. Because a shop assistant’s final salary is not that much less than someone who works in a bank, for example, Danes don’t choose their careers based on money or status as people in other countries do. They choose the job they want to do. There’s a philosophy in Denmark known as “Jante-lov”, which translates as “you’re no better than anybody else.” 【2】 But workers in other countries are not used to looking at life in this way.

Money doesn’t seem as important in Denmark. It has been called a “post consumerist” society. 【3】 What is more important is the sense of society and it’s no surprise that Danes are very used to socializing. 92% of Danes belong to some kind of social club and these clubs are even paid for by the government.

【4】 They also show an amazing amount of trust in each other and their government. You can see sighs of this all over the country. You’ll find vegetable stalls with no assistant. You take what you want and leave the money in a basket. perhaps the bike is a good symbol for Denmark. The Danes can afford cars but they choose bikes—simple, economical, non-polluting machines that show no status and help keep people fit.

A. In a list ranking countries by the happiness of their citizens, it pm tropical Fiji 50 places below freezing Iceland.

B. The street sweeper can hold his head up high as he proudly does his job.

C. Danish people aren’t as suspicious as many other nations.

D. Most Danes are used to seeing between 50-70% of their salary going to the government!

E. Those 5.5 million people who call Denmark their home.

F. People have nice things in their houses, but they’re not mad about shopping and spending.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】E

【2】B

【3】F

【4】C

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，從幾個方面介紹了丹麥是世界上最具幸福感的國家。

【1】空后說當你聽說丹麥人繳納了世界上最高的稅時，你會更加驚訝，“the Danes”表明此處會提到丹麥（人），故E項（擁有550萬人口的丹麥是世界上最具幸福感的國家）符合語境。

【2】空后說但其他國家的工人不習慣這樣看待生活，此處是丹麥的工人與其他國家的工人相對比，因此此處會提到丹麥工人工作的一種情況，故B項（掃大街的人可以昂起頭，自豪地工作）符合語境。

【3】空前說丹麥是一個“后消費主義”社會，此處解釋原因，故F項（人們在他們的家里有很好的東西，但是他們不喜歡購物和消費）符合語境。

【4】空后說他們還表現(xiàn)出對彼此和政府的巨大信任，“also”表明此處應該還會提到丹麥人的一種積極的做法，They指代的就是C項中的Danish people，故C項（丹麥人不像許多其他國家的人那樣多疑）符合語境。

在六選四的解題過程中，空處上下文中出現(xiàn)的and，also, moreover, even, yet，but, however等表示并列、遞進或轉(zhuǎn)折關系的詞語往往是重要線索，例如本篇第4題，空后說他們還表現(xiàn)出對彼此和政府的巨大信任，“also”表明此處應該還會提到丹麥人的一種積極的做法，They指代的就是C項中的Danish people，故C項（丹麥人不像許多其他國家的人那樣多疑）符合語境。