题目内容
Thursday, December 30, 2004 (
The international aid agency, Red Cross has warned that the toll（某事造成的损失） in the tsunami（海） disaster could go up to 1,00,000.
The official figures of those confirmed（被证实的） dead is 80,000. Of these Indonesia accounts for the most at 45,268, followed by Sri Lanka with the toll at 22,493.
As many as 6,974 people have been killed in
Rising figures
According to unofficial estimates, the death toll（死亡人数）could be over 10,000 in India.
The hardest hit has been the Andaman and Nicobar islands, with over 3,000 dead.
Though the official government figure for Car Nicobar is 124, that number could go up dramatically with thousands more still missing.
In Tamil Nadu, according to official estimates, over 6000 are dead, with 3500 in Nagapattinam alone.
73. According to the news, the second largest number of those confirmed death is in ___ .
A. Indonesia B. Malaysia C. Sri Lanka D. Thailand
74. In this report, there are ____ countries suffering from this tsunami disaster.
A. ten B. eleven C. twelve D. eight
75. Which of the following about the news is true?
A. According to the official estimates, over 10,000 people died in this tsunami in
B. According to the unofficial estimates, 100 people died in this tsunami in
C. According to the official estimates, 100,000 people died in this tsunami.
D. According to the news, the death toll could go up in this tsunami.
73. C 答案在第二段最后一句。其意思是印度尼西亚死亡的人数最多，接下来是斯里兰卡。
74. C 通读全文可以找到他们是：Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Somalia, Myanmar, Maldives, Malaysia, Tanzania, Seychelles Bangladesh, Kenya.
75. D 选项A错的原因是应把“official”改成“unofficial”；选项B中的 “unofficial”应为“official”。选项C错的原因是原文中第一段提到“could go up to 1,00,000”意思是“可能会上升到”，并非指已经死亡的人数。故选项D正确。
