2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

terms of human development, some of them have made significant progress since 1990. The report is critical, however, of the fact economic inequality has increased significantly in the last twenty years, both within and between countries.

The greatest threat to improving HDIs in the future, according to the report, is climate change. Economic growth increases average incomes in a country through increasing production and consumption. However , if this leads to greater emissions of greenhouse gases, as has always been the case in the past, global warning will probably accelerate, and cause severe environmental problems in some parts of the world hat will threaten the livelihoods of huge numbers f people. The progress of the last twenty years, therefore, might not be sustainable.

The only solution, according to the report, I to break the link between

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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

economic growth and greenhouse gas

emissions-which, needless to say, is easier, said than done. Questions 71 to 75

Complete the following sentences with information given in the passage in a maximum of 10 words for each blank. 71. The concept of “human development” is based on the following three factors: _______,

_____________and_____________. 72. Some countries with similar levels of economic development have quite different HDIs because they have_____________.

73._________________has caused the number of people living in extreme poverty to increase since 2008.

74. The report says that ______________ is the greatest threat to increasing HDIs in the future.

75. The report says the link

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between____________ and

____________needs to be broken. Section D (10 marks)

Questions 76 to 80 are based on the following passage

It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the

misunderstanding between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are

possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises: that they talk too much about certain

problems-and that they have no sense o humor, at least parent-child relationships.

I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they felt themselves when were young.

Young people often irritate their

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2011年全国大学生英语竞赛C类试题及参考答案

parents with their choices in clothes, hairstyles, entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted, so they create a culture and society and their own. Then, if it turns out that their music, entertainers, vocabulary, clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste.

Sometimes teenagers are resistant and proud because they do not want their parents to approve of what they do. If they did approve, it looks as if the teenager is betraying his own age group. All this is assuming that the teenager is the underdog: he can not win but at least he can keep his honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after years of childhood, when children were completely

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