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阅读理解 　　More young Americans are familiar with the island on TV's“Survivor(生还者)”than with Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq or Israel, a National Geographic survey has reported． 　　Americans' bad performance was not that different from answers by young people in eight other nations, especially Canada and Britain, and was slightly better than last－ranked Mexico, the survey found．Only 17 percent of U．S．young people could find Afghanistan on a world map, though it has been in the news almost all the time since the September 11,2001 attacks．Just one in every seven young Americans could locate Iraq or Iran on a map of the Middle East and Asia．Israel was hard for Americans to find－only 14 percent could locate it on a regional map－though the worldwide answer was not much better, in no country among the nine could more than half of young adults locate it．Worldwide, only three in ten young people could find the Pacific Ocean, which covers 33 percent of the Earth．Seven in ten Americans could correctly locate it．By contrast, 34 percent of young Americans knew that the island used for the last Season of the television show“Survivor”was in the South Pacific． 　　Many young Americans had a wrong figure of America's population, with 30 percent estimating(估计)the U．S．population to be 1 billion to 2 billion．The correct answer in the survey was 150 million to 350 million．Answers in all other countries did better on that question, and did much better on estimating the population of their own country． (1) Which country performed worst in the survey? [　　] A． America． B． Mexico． C． Canada． D． Britain． (2) Fewest young Americans in the survey knew where ________ is on a map． [　　] A． Afghanistan B． Israel C． Iraq D． the Pacific (3) The underlined word“it”in the second passage refers to ________． [　　] A． a world map B． the survey C． Mexico D． Afghanistan (4) Of all the countries in the survey, young Americans did worst in ________． [　　] A． the knowledge of the number of one's own country's population B． finding the name of a country on a map C． finding the Pacific on a map D． enjoying TV programs

Answer 1

答案：1．B;2．B;3．D;4．A;
解析：

(1)	年轻的美国人在调查中仅比排在最后的墨西哥略好一点．由第二段…was slightly better than last－ranked Mexico得出．rank此处用作动词当“排位”讲．
(2)	调查中17％的美国年轻人能在地图上找到阿富汗；七个人中只有一个能找到伊拉克；只有14％的人能找到以色列．
(3)	考查代词．it代替阿富汗．9.11之后美国媒体经常提到阿富汗．Only 17 percent of U．S．young people could find Afghanistan on a world map, though it has been in the news almost all the time since the September 11,2001 attacks．
(4)	在估计本国人口方面美国人做的最差．由最后一段Many young Americans had a wrong figure of America's population, with 30 percent estimating(估计)the U．S．population to be 1 billion to 2 billion．The correct answer in the survey was 150 million to 350 million．Answers in all other countries did better on that question, and did much better on estimating the population of their own country 得出．have a wrong figure of有……的错误数据．