6.IMAGINE if,to collect your salary each month,you had to walk to the nearest town,perhaps tens of miles away,to gather in a school or a football court or a church.There,you and your colleagues wait for a man to arrive from the capital,perhaps a thousand miles away,with a suitcase of cash.
Few countries are as corrupt as Congo(剛果).Mobutu Sese Seko,a former strongman,used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris.By the time of his overthrow in 1997,graft was endemic.Government employees were not paid but rather expected to use their positions to make a living.Among the most prized government jobs was that of accountant:the people responsible for transporting bags of cash to the provinces to hand out o emplyees.
In 2012,however,the Congolese government started helping civil servants to open bank accounts.Around three-quarters of them-some 670,000people-now have one.In the process,the government has weeded out tens of thousands of ghost employees,since te embezzlers who invented them could not open accounts in their names without a matching ID.
Yet in a vast country with fwer roads tha Luxembourg,hardly anyone lives anywhere near a bank branch.So Congolese banks must now do the work the government accountants used to:shipping money to the remote area.Cash has to be transported to branches in regional capitals,and thence to account-holders on the backs of motorbikes,in canoes or by foot.Bank staff with suitcases of cash make easy targets,just as they did in the west of America in the 19th century.Though they usually travel with armed policemen,there have been at least ten armed robberies of bank employees since January.
At the moment banks are little more than money-transfer companies,and not very sophisticated ones at that.The transfers tend to go only one way-out of Kinshasa-so cannot be netted against each other; instead cash almost always has to be moved physically.Therefore,most Congolese bankers hope that the new system will promote the growth of a proper banking system.
32.The underlined word"charter"(Paragraph 2)can be replaced by"B".
A.drive
B.rent
C.write
D.push
33.How did government employees use to earn a living?B
A.By getting enough salaries
B.By benefiting from their positions
C.By transporting bags of cash
D.By talking to employees
34.What is not one of the challenges that bank staff have to face while transferring each?A
A.The transfers are netted against one another
B.The cash may be robbed away
C.Most cash has to be moved physically
D.They sometimes have to walk to transfer cash
35.Which of the following can be the best title of the article?D
A.Unavoidable robberies
B.Frequent corruption
C.Best banking system
D.Cash on the way.
分析 本文主要講述的是在非洲的剛果,人們的工資并不是通過銀行卡發(fā)放,而是通過人工運輸以現(xiàn)金的方式發(fā)放給人們.在錢運輸?shù)耐局袝鲆姾芏嗟膿尳俚惹闆r.
解答 32.B 詞義猜測.根據(jù)本句Mobutu Sese Seko,a former strongman,used state funds to charter a Concorde to take him on shopping trips to Paris.蒙博托•塞塞•塞科是剛果人,但是他到巴黎去購物.乘坐的是Concorde"協(xié)和號"飛機,這個飛機是他租用的,因為該詞前面有state funds.結合選項,故B正確.
33.B 推理判斷.根據(jù)第二段第四句Government employees were not paid but rather expected to use their positions to make a living.可知剛果的政府職員期待著靠手中職權掙錢.故B正確.
34.A 細節(jié)理解.根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段最后一句Though they usually travel with armed policemen,there have been at least ten armed robberies of bank employees since January.說明在剛果經(jīng)常有人搶劫銀行.第三句Cash has to be transported to branches in regional capitals,and thence to account-holders on the backs of motorbikes,in canoes or by foot.可知有時候錢需要使用銀行職員送到偏遠地區(qū).根據(jù)最后一段instead cash almost always has to be moved physically.可知在剛果很多時候錢需要人工步行運輸.所以BCD都是剛果的銀行職員面臨的危險.A項中:轉賬不能相互盈利.與銀行職員無關,也不是他們所面臨的危險.故A符合本題要求.
35.D 主旨大意.本文主要講述的是在非洲的剛果,人們工資并不是通過銀行卡發(fā)放,而是通過人工運輸以現(xiàn)金的方式發(fā)放給人們.在錢運輸?shù)耐局袝鲆姾芏嗟膿尳俚惹闆r.故D項符合文章中心思想.
點評 本文是一個歷史文化類閱讀,題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題,做題時結合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關語句進行仔細分析,結合選項選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關鍵句子的基礎上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測,一定要做到有理有據(jù).