重庆华章MBA英语每日一练（5.22）
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2014年5月20日阅读理解答案及详解
【解析】
这是一篇关于产品的环保问题的专题报道。文中谈到，消费者常常被产品的宣传所误导而感到迷惑不解。国际消费者协会的调查表明，很多声称环保的产品实际上名不副实，各种产品所称的内容往往具有欺骗性。要使消费者意识到各类不同产品对环境的影响，还需要很长一段时间。目前正在大力推进的工作是使产品标签能够符合国际标准化组织（ISO）的要求。
1.推论题， B：各种产品生成的内容常常含混不清或具有欺骗性。
参见文章第2段：a German fertilizer described itself as， a brand of flour said it was and a British toilet paper claimed to be这句话中所提到的“ earthworm friendly” ，“non-polluting” ，“environmentally friendlier”均属NCC发现的含混不清或具有欺骗性的内容。
其他选项：A，所有被调查的产品都声称符合ISO标准；C，消费者愿意相信许多产品声称的内容；Ｄ，很少有产品实际上证明是有利于环保的。
2.推论题，Ｄ：（消费者）仍然不知道各种不同产品对环境的确切影响。
参见文中第4段：“ While many good and useful claims are being made , it is clear there is a long way to go in ensuring shoppers are adequately informed about the environmental impact of products they buy,”这句话的意思是：尽管有许多有关的和有用的声明，要确保购买者充分了解不同产品对环境的确切影响，还有漫长的道路要走。由此暗示消费者仍然不知道各种产品对环境的确切影响。
其他选项的意思是：Ａ，对他们将购买的产品更加小心；Ｂ，仍然不愿意为带绿色标签的产品多付钱；Ｃ，更加清楚不同的产品对环境的影响。
3.细节题，Ｃ：对照ISO标准检查各种产品所生成的内容。
参见文中第5，6段：The 10-country study surveyed product packaging…,compared them to labeling guidelines set by the International Standards Organization (ISO)
其他选项的意思是：Ａ，查明产品所生成的内容有多少未能达到环保标准；Ｂ，告知消费者关于他们购买的产品对环保的影响；Ｄ，通过国际标准组织修订指导方针。
4.细节题，Ｂ：消费者发现很难区分产品的真假。
参见文中第9段：The high numbers show how very confusing it must be for consumers to sort the true from the misleading.”
其他选项的意思：A,它们很有可能导致严重的环保问题；B，消费者发现真假很能区别；C，它们可能会在消费者中引起普遍的愤怒。
5.推论题，A：使产品标签能符合国际化标准组织（ISO）的要求。
参见中文第10段Philip Page的原话：What we are now pushing for is to have multinational corporations meet the standards set by the ISO.
其他选项：B，确保所有家庭产品符合环保标准；C，警告消费者所谓的绿色产品具有的危险；D，核实非污染产品的成就。
2014年5月22日英语习题
阅读理解：
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman. Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father’s age, but now I am stuck with this number and everything it means.
A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, “Fifty is what forty used to be.” He had made an inspirational point. Am I over the hill? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling them that the high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is impossible for me now.
“Your are not getting older, you are getting better.” says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
And so, as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net, I am moved to share some thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older, of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies. In fact, a poet named Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious blend of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher was right when he said. “Old is always fifteen years from now.”
1. The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that ________.
A. time alone will tell
B. time goes by quickly
C. time will show what is right
D. time makes one forget the past
2. When the author turned fifty, people around him ________.
A. tried to comfort him
B. got inspiration with him
C. were friendlier with him
D. found him more talkative
3. We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. the old should led a simple life
B. the old should face the fact of aging
C. the old should take more exercise
D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity
