71. What can be the best title for the text?

A. Life in Ireland

B. A Very Difficult History

C. Ireland, Past and Present

D. The Independence of Ireland

[解析]选C。文章标题题。通读全文可知，本文从地理状况、人口发展、经济情况以及社会生活等方面介绍了爱尔兰共和国的过去及现在，故C项最为全面。

70. The last paragraph is mainly about　　　　　　　 　.

A. the Irish character　　　　　　　 B. Irish culture

C. Irish musical instruments　　　　 D. a famous Irish writer

[解析]选B。主旨大意题。文章末段从爱尔兰民族习性、音乐、语言及文学等方面介绍了爱尔兰民族文化，故B项正确。A、C、D各项虽都提及，但都是细节。

69. We learn from the text that in Ireland 　　　　　　.

A. food shortages in the 1840s led to a decline in population

B. people are moving to the cities for lack of work in the countryside

C. it is harder to make a living as a farmer than as a factory worker

D. different kinds of old Irish songs are all sung with instruments

[解析]选A。细节理解题。通读第二段可知，十九世纪四十年代，由于主要农作物土豆受病害影响及本国工作机会缺乏，大量爱尔兰人移往其它国家，使爱尔兰人口下降，故A项正确。B项中人们移往城市并非是由于农村缺少工作机会；文章中并没有对比城市和乡村生活的难易；D项错误在于all，并非全部的爱尔兰歌谣都使用乐器。

68. What does the author tell us in paragraph 1?

A. How the Irish fought against the English.

B. How Ireland gained independence.

C. How English rulers tried to conquer Ireland.

D. How two “Irelands” came into being.

[解析]选D。主旨大意题。通读第一段可知，本段介绍了爱尔兰共和国(The Republic of Ireland)及北爱尔兰(Northern Ireland)的由来，故D项正确。

1.(2011·安徽卷)D

Ireland has had a very difficult history. The problems started in the 16th century when English rulers tried to conquer(征服) Ireland. For hundreds of years, the Irish people fought against the English. Finally, in 1921, the British government was forced to give independence to the south of Ireland. The result is that today there are two “Irelands”. Northern Ireland, in the north, is part of the united kingdom. The Republic of Ireland, in the south, is an independent country.

In the 1840s the main crop, potatoes, was affected by disease and about 750,000 people died of hunger. This, and a shortage (短缺) of work , forced many people to leave Ireland and live in the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada. As a result of these problems, the population fell from 8.2 million in 1841 to 6.6 million in 1851.

For many years, the majority of Irish people earned their living as farmers. Today, many people still work on the land but more and more people are moving to the cities to work in factories and offices. Life in the cities is very different from life in the countryside, where things move at a quieter and slower pace.

The Irish are famous for being warm-hearted and friendly. Oscar Wilde, a famous Irish writer, once said that the Irish were “the greatest talkers since the Greeks”. Since independence, Ireland has revived(复兴) its own culture of music, language, literature and singing. Different areas have different styles of old Irish song which are sung without instruments. Other kinds of Irish music use many different instruments such as the violin, whistles, etc.

[文章大意]本文从地理状况、人口发展、经济情况以及社会生活等方面介绍了爱尔兰共和国，让我们对这个美丽的国家有更进一步的了解。

71.The passage is mainly　　

A.an introduction of jacqueline’s life both as Fist Lady and as editor.

B.a brief description of jacqueline’s lifelong experiences.

C.a brief account of jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years.

D.an analysis of Jscqueline’s social relations in publishing

[答案]DCCC

70.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Jscqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years

B. Jscqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually

C. Jscqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited

D. Jscqueline’s achievements were widely known

69.The underlined sentence in the last paragph probably means this　　　

A.Jscqueline’s ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady

B. Jscqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor

C. Jscqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady

D. Jscqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor

68.We can learn from the passage that Jecqueline　　　　

A.because fond of reading after working as an editor

B.was in charge of publishing 100 books

C.promoted lier books through social relations

D.gained a lot from her career as an editor

4.(2011·福建卷)D

　 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.

After the death of her second husband,Greek shipping magnate AristotieOnassis laqueline’s close friend and former White House social　 ?　 Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing.After consideration,

　　　 Jacqueline accepted it.Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading.For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking,then at Doubleday ,pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined.During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 sucessfully marketed books.Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes.She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book ,The Power of Myth.The book went on to become an international best-seller.She dealt　 too.with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传)，Moonwalk.

Jaequelinered for her name and for her social relations,but she soon proved

Her worth.Her shoicas,suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing Since and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication,she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiofraphy she never wrote,Her role as First lady,in the end,was overshadowed by her performance as an editor.However,few knew that she had achteved so much.