蓝鸽答案

1.What is the news report mainly about?

【D】【详解】新闻开篇就说电脑技术让残疾人更容易获得工作，然后举例证明这一说法。故D为正确答案。A“为International Revenue Service工作”。B,“一项特殊的服务”和C,“残疾人的日常生活”。都只是和新闻相关的信息，并不是新闻的主要内容。

2.How many disabled clerks working for the IRS?

【B】【详解】预读选项可知本题为数字题，考生应留意记下出现数字的信息。新闻中提到，Ed Mccann是美国IRS在42个州拥有的超过300名残疾单据输入员中的一员，故该公司拥有超过300名残疾员工，B正确。D的数字42在新闻中也有提及，但这是州的数目，而不是输入员的数目。

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-racked Helmand province,due in part to its policy of treating all patients.Afghan officials said they arrested three Italian Emergency workers Saturday,a doctor,a nurse and a logistics worker.Afghan officials said they were held as part of an investigation into an unproved plot to kill the governor of Helmand province.Helmand Province Governor Gulab Mangal said an Emergency staff member received 500,000 dollars as an advance payment for killing him.In total nine people,including six Afghans,were held after hand bombs and other weapons were discovered in the storeroom of the Emergency-run hospital in Helmand’s capital,Lashkar Gah.Emergency founder Gino Strada scolded the charge of the aid group’s three workers.

3.What happened on Saturday?

【A】【详解】新闻指出，阿富汗的官员称他们周六拘留了3名来自意大利的紧急救援人员

一名医生、一名护士和一个后勤工作人员。A所述与此相符，故为答案。

4.What do we learn about the Italian aid group Emergency?

【A】【详解】新闻指出，赫尔曼德省省长Gulab Mangal称紧急救援组的一名工作人员收到一笔作为刺杀他的预村款，A正确。在赫尔曼德首都的医院储存室里发现了手榴弹及其他武器后，有9人被拘留，其中包括6个阿富汗人。此外，新闻还提及紧急救援组的创始人为Gira Strada.B.C.D与上述内容不符。

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

If a new idea in America becomes a law,people who suffer from obesity could suffer financially too.The US state of Arizona wants to charge overweight citizens 50 dollars annually if they fail to follow their doctors’advice.People with children or who are overweight because they suffer from a medical condition would be excluded.If the idea is approved by Congress,smokers and diabetics who fail to stick to a healthy lifestyle will also have to pay.Medicaid,the organisation which provides healthcare to the poor in the USA,costs the government 339 billion dollars a year.Monica Coury,assistant director at Arizona’s Medicaid programme,said that this proposal would ask people to give something back.She said that Arizona would take a carrot and stick approach to the problem.As well as punishing people who go against their doctor’s wishes,awards would be offered for following advice,possibly a keep-fit video.Arizona’s senator Kyrsten Sinema has not backed the plans,saying that there isn’t a system to decide whether someone is or isn’t following medical advice.Other critics claim that people don’t need the government to look after them;if they want to be fat and smoke,the“nanny state”shouldn’t try to stop them.