题目内容
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案.
People of the World Celebrate the New Millennium（千年）Early in 1994, Britain established a millennium committee for planning and arranging celebrations. Of the 185 projects devised by the committee, “the Millennium Dome--British Exhibition Hall 2000”is the most spectacular. The Dome, the largest building of its kind in the world, has been constructed in Greenwich, a city bisected by the prime meridian. Ten million tourists attended the 2000 celebrations.
New Zealand was among the first countries to ring in the new millennium. From 5 o'clock in the afternoon on December 31, 1999 to 4:04 in the morning of January 1,2000, New Zealand held mass carnivals in Wellington and on Pitt Island, a Chatham island that lies 800 kilometers east of Wellington. According to London Royal Geography Society, the first rays of dawn shone on top of a Pitt Island mountain. A family's home sits atop the mountain, and so the government paid the family NZ $200, 000 to make use of the surrounding property for millennium festivities.
Supposedly, France celebrated the millennium for 18 months. Two 60-meter-tall towers were built upon the summit near Notre Dame, and a 33-ton copper bell named“The World Peace Millennium Commemorative Bell”was casted. The French launched a“Green Meridian Program”by planting several thousand trees along the meridian in Paris.
In Berlin, Germany, 1,000 opera stars sang on New Year's Eve. Starting last September, Germany's postal services have been running a program called“2000 Space Postal Matters”. Two thousand representative letters and postcards were selected to be sent into space via rocket. The rocket was launched from a Brazilian launching pad on New Year's Eve. After the rocket landed, the letters were mailed. Both writers and receivers got certificates, proving that their letters and postcards had been sent through space.
In the United States a ceremony entitled “Joining Hands to Celebrate the Future” was held on October I at Disney World. A Year 2000 sign sat atop the Epcot Center to mark the occasion. In New York, the millennium celebration lasted from 7:00 p.m. of December 31, 1999 until 7:00 p.m. of the New Year's Day. About 1 million people attended.
Australia's Sydney held a 24-hour“Millennium Sydney” celebration along with invited guests from all over the world. Five tons of fireworks fired.
In China's Shenzhen and Hong Kong, 2000 couples participated in a collective wedding ceremony on the first day of the new century. Participants included well-known overseas Chinese. Television stations from 50 countries save live broadcasts of the ceremony and ensuing celebrations. （from china Today, January, 2000）
（1）Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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A. Britain began to plan the celebration of the millennium earliest.
B. The family who live atop a Pitt Island mountain are very lucky.
C. Four thousand people got certificates for their letters and postcards in Berlin.
D. A collective wedding ceremony was held in Shenzhen; another one was held in Hong Kong on the first day of the new millennium.
（2）On which city the topic of celebration of the millennium is about nature?
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（3）What did people enjoy in Berlin on New Year's Eve?
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A. The new millennium bell.
B. Operas.
C. Tons of fireworks.
D. Mass celebrations.
（4）Of which ceremony the topic is about the union of all the people?
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A. The mass carnivals in Wellington.
B. The launching in Brasilia.
C. The ceremony in Disney World.
D. The wedding ceremony in Shenzhen.
解析：
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(1) D 这是一道正误辨认题. 短文尾段中In China's Shenzhen and Hong Kong，2000 couple's participated in a collective wedding ceremony on the first day of the new century.是说，在新世纪的头一天，在中国的深圳和香港，两千对新婚夫妇参加了集体婚礼，但并没有说在新千年的第一天，他们在两地分别举行了婚礼. (2) C 这是一道事实询问题.文中四个国家的城市悉尼、纽约、巴黎和格林尼治在新千年的第一天都举行了不同形式的庆典活动.根据短文第三段尾句The French launched a“Green Meridian Program”by planting several thousand trees along the meridian in Paris. 可以判断出，在巴黎千年庆祝的话题是大自然. (3) B 这是一道细节题. 根据短文第四段首句In Berlin，Germany, 1, 000 opera stars sang on New Year's Eve.可知，在柏林在新年的除夕，人们用欣赏歌剧来举行对新千年的庆祝活动. (4) C 这是一道推理判断题.根据短文倒数第三段首句In the United states，a ceremony entitled“Joining Hands to celebrate the future”was held on October 1 at Disney World.可以推断出，在迪斯尼乐园举行的新千年庆典活动的话题是关于所有人们的团结，故答案选C. |
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