Question

 Yu Pengnian is an 88-year-old real estate Chinese businessman. He amassed (积聚) a fortune of$1. 3 billion during his career but in?stead of keeping the money and living like an emperor,he decided to give it all away. All of his fortune will be spent in helping poor Chi?nese students get a better education.

  And Yu isn't the only superrich person in China who has this spirit of giving. Chen Guangbiao,a Jiangsu recycling tycoon,has given millions of dollars to charity (慈善) and promises to give all of his money to charity when he dies.

  Yu and Chen are among the many businessmen who have become prosperous during China's economic rise. An American business magazine,Forbes,estimates that there are 117 billionaires in China and hundreds of thousands of millionaires. What sets Yu and Chen apart from the rest,though,is their tremendous generosity (慷慨，大方) when it comes to donating money to charity.

  One day Bill Gates and Warren Buffett came to Beijing. Gates and Buffett,two of the world's richest men,are also the world's biggest philanthropists. They invi?ted fifty of China's richest people to have dinner with them and talk about the spirit of giving. At first,only a few people accepted their invitation. It seemed some of the invited guests were afraid that Buffett and Gates were going to pressure them into giving their wealth to charity.

  A lot of people are angry at the billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes. They criticize them for not caring about the poor and the less fortu?nate. But I think this criticism is wrong. A gift,any gift,should come from the heart. Instead of criticism,these reluctant billionaires should be encouraged to fol?low the examples of Yu Pengnian and Chen Guangbiao. Encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism. As we say in English, "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

1. Yu Pengnian will spend all of his fortune in       .

   A. helping poor Chinese students get a better education

   B. helping the students in earthquakestricken areas

   C. helping his offsprings lead a rich life in the future

   D. achieving his aim of living like an emperor

2. According to the passage,why does the author end the passage with the English saying "You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."？

   A. The author wants to tell us that flies prefer honey to vinegar.

   B. The author wants to prove that encouragement is always a better strategy than criticism when it comes to charity.

   C. The English saying expresses the main theme of the passage.

   D. The author wants to criticize those billionaires who are not willing to give away their fortunes and not caring about the poor and the less fortunate.

3. Which of the following phrases can be used to take the place of the underlined word "criticize" in the last paragraph?

   A. Show their respect to.

   B. Have bad comments on.

   C. Show their thanks to.

   D. Have good comments on.

Answer 1

[文章大意]本文是一篇新闻报道。文章报道了中国两位著名的慈善家余彭年和陈光标为慈善事业而慷慨捐助的事迹。文章最后提出.对比较吝啬的富豪们应 鼓励奉献.而不是谴责。

1. A细节理解题。根据文章第一段最后一句"All of his fortune will be spent in helping poor Chinese students get a better education."可知，余彭年所有的财富都会用于帮助中国贫困的学生获得更好的教育。故选A.

2. B推理判断题。根据文章的最后一段可知，作者采用这个谚语的目的是陈述"鼓励胜过批评"这一观点。

3. B词义猜测题。根据后面的"…not caring about the poor and the less fortunate."可知，此处criticize意为"批评"。故选 B.