答案详解 Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
If you feel like you had one too many drinks over the winter holiday season---you probably did.At least,if tough new guidelines on drinking just announced by the UK’s chief medical officers are anything to go by.
The new guidelines suggest that both men and women should regularly drink no more than 14 units of alcohol per week.That’s the equivalent of six small glasses of wine.Pregnant women should not drink at all.
Guidelines in the U.S. Recommend that women should not exceed one standard drink per day and men should no more than two.That equates to 12 units a week for women and just over 24 for men.
Most worryingly, perhaps,the new UK advice suggests that there is no safe level of drinking---and any amount of alcohol can increase the risk of cancer,according to new research. 1.What is the amount of alcohol suggested in the new guideline?
【A】【详解】新闻中提到，新的英国健康指南里建议，不论是男性还是女性，每周喝酒不超过14单位(no more than 14 units of alcohol per week)，故A正确。B“女士不应该饮酒”错误，新闻中提到的是“怀孕的女士不应该饮酒”，C“女士可以每周喝24单位的酒”远超过指南建议的14个单位。D“男士每天喝六杯酒”。新闻中提到的是“每周不超过六杯”。 2. What worries people most according to the news report? 【B】【详解】新闻末尾提到，新的研究表明，最令人担忧的是不论饮酒量多少，都有可能增加罹患癌症的几率(any amount of alcohol can increase the risk of cancer)，故选B。A“怀孕的妇女不应当饮酒”，有在新闻中提到，但答非所问，并没有提到这会使人担忧。C“一些萄酒不能安全饮用”曲解文意，新闻中提到的是“没有安全的饮酒量”(no safe level of drinking)，即就算饮一点点酒都有危险，并非葡萄酒不能安全饮用。D“药物对酒精引起的疾病没有效果”没有在新闻没有提到。
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
In Disney’s cartoon Wall-E,the robot is left behind on a deserted Earth to clean up the waste mankind left behind.If the latest statistics are anything to go by,we’re in danger of turning that fictional future into a