2012高考英语：阅读理解课堂练学案（9）

2012高考英语：阅读理解课堂练学案（9）

‎2012高考英语：阅读理解课堂练学案（9）‎ Passage Three (Pop Stars Earn Much)‎ Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was once the prerogative only of Royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven Rolls-Royces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their comings and goings are reported, for, like Royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of Royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds which idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are astronomical.‎ And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have become legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an unprecedented scale. By today’s standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The competition for the title ‘Top of the Pops’ is fierce, but the rewards are truly colossal.‎ It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Don’t the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the services they perform to their companies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency – often more than large industrial concerns – and the taxman can only be grateful fro their massive annual contributions to the exchequer. So who would begrudge them their rewards?‎ It’s all very well for people in humdrum jobs to moan about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a ‎ limit to what he can earn. But a man who attempts to become a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of competitors ever get to the very top. He knows that years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with complete failure. But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed: they are the recompense for the huge risks involved and if he achieves them, he has certainly earned them. That’s the essence of private enterprise.‎ ‎1.The sentence Pop stars’ style of living was once the prerogative only of Royalty means ‎[A] their life was as luxurious as that of royalty.‎ They enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty.‎ ‎[C] They are rather rich.‎ ‎[D] Their way of living was the same as that of the royalty.‎ ‎2.What is the author’s attitude toward top stars’ high income?[A] Approval.‎ Disapproval.‎ ‎[C] Ironical.‎ ‎[D] Critical.‎ ‎3.It can be inferred from the passage ‎[A] there exists fierce competition in climbing to the top.‎ People are blind in idolizing stars.‎ ‎[C] Successful Pop stars give great entertainment.‎ ‎[D] The tax they have paid are great.‎ ‎4.What can we learn from the passage?‎ ‎[A] Successful man should get high-income repayment.‎ Pop stars made great contribution to a country.‎ ‎[C] Pop stars can enjoy the life of royalty.‎ ‎[D] Successful men represent the tip of the iceberg.‎ ‎5.Which paragraph covers the main idea?‎ ‎[A] The first.‎ The second.‎ ‎[C] The third.‎ ‎[D] The fourth.‎ Vocabulary1.prerogative            权力，（尤指）特权 ‎2.chauffeur            受雇开车人，（尤指富人、要人的）司机 ‎3.entourage            随行人员，伴随者，近侍；建筑物周围 ‎4.astronomical            庞大的，天文的 ‎5.adulation            奉承 ‎6.gramophone            灌音 ‎7.colossal                  巨大的 ‎8.exchequer            国库，财源 ‎  Exchequer Bond 国库债券 ‎9.begrudge                  感到不快/不满，忌妒 ‎10.humdrum                  平淡的，单调的 ‎11.moan                  呻吟声 ‎  moan about     发牢骚 难句译注 ‎1.the prerogative of Royalty或the royal prerogative ‎ 皇家的特权（再英国指国王名义上享有不经议会认可而采取行动的权力）。‎ ‎2.People turn out in their thousands to greet them.‎ ‎【结构简析】turn out露面、集合、出席。EX: A vast crowd turned out to watch the match.大批观众到场观看比赛。‎ ‎【参考译文】成千上万的人们出来欢迎他们。‎ ‎3.The great days of Hollywood have become legendry.‎ ‎【参考译文】好莱坞鼎盛时期成了神话。‎ ‎4.By today’s standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular.‎ ‎【参考译文】按今天的标准来看，好莱坞的奢华（过分的行为）似乎并不那么引人注目。‎ ‎5.A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did.‎ ‎【参考译文】今天单张录音唱片挣的版税要比过去一步电影还要多得多。‎ 写作方法与文章大意 作者以对比、因果写作手法，写出歌星享受者贵族般生活方式，出门受千万人群欢迎，出入高级车、机，身后保镖、经纪人、新闻记者，来去都有报道，这一切是社会对高级演员的慷慨赠予。公司的高级人员享受高薪，歌星也应享受。再则顶尖歌星冒有很大风险。‎ 答案详解 ‎1.B 他们享受一度只属于贵族享用的一切。第一段集中谈了这些：他们走到哪里，成千上万人们出来欢迎，却中发疯地要看一眼穿着花哨的偶像的笑容。这些歌星坐着司机开动的Rolls-Royces汽车、私人直升飞机，高级长官飞机到处走，永远围着一批经纪人、报界记者和保镖随从人员。他们的照片定期登在报刊上，因为歌星象贵族一样是新闻人物。‎ A.他们的生活和贵族一样奢侈。C.他们很富。D.他们的生活方式和贵族生活方式一个样。‎ ‎2.A 赞成。在第一段最后一句：“他们为他们的牺牲所获取的报酬难以计算，支付率惊人。”第二段一开始就点明“为什么不惊人？社会对高级表演者总是慷慨解囊。好莱坞的鼎盛时期名扬天下，著名歌星先手空前绝后的名、利、奉承。”第三段更明确指出：应该这样支付星族，这完全正确。企业中的顶尖人物因为他们为公司和国家所作的一切不也挣得高额工资？税务员应感谢他们每年为国库做出了巨大的贡献。所以谁会忌妒他们的报酬呢？最后一段进一步说明：欲成为星族的人冒着很大的风险，谁都知道只有一小撮人能成为顶尖人物，也可能多年的努力以彻底失败而告终，而成功的报酬确实很高，这是对他们冒险的补偿。这些内容都说明作者赞成巨额报酬。‎ A.不同意。C.讽刺的。D.批评的。‎ ‎3.A 在攀登顶峰中存在着激烈的竞争。这在第三段最后一句明确指出：获取顶尖的流行歌星的称号竞争激烈，但其报酬确实惊人。最后一段的风险说。还有最后一段第二句：说忌妒话的人应记住：最有名的星族代表的只是冰山之巅――人极少。每个成名的歌星身后就有成千上百个其他歌者为生存而奋斗。这都说明“竞争激烈”。‎ B.人们盲目崇拜偶像歌星。C.成功的流行歌星演出给人极大的享受。D.他们支付的税收巨大。‎ ‎4.D 成功者只是冰山的顶尖――少极了。‎ A.成功的人应当获得高收入。B.流行歌星对国家做出巨大贡献。C.流行歌星能享受贵族生活。‎ ‎5.D 第四段。主旨句是倒数第一、二句，成功的报酬确实很高，这是对其高度风险的还报补偿，如果他成功了，他肯定挣得多。那就是私人事业的根本/本质。‎ A.第一段。这段之对比了贵族和歌星的生活方式。B.第二段。这段讲了挣得多，但竞争激烈。C.第三段。歌星和企业顶尖人物对比。‎ Passage Four (Examinations Exert a Pernicious Influence on Education)‎ ‎     We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and aptitude.‎ ‎     As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of ‘drop-outs’: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?‎ ‎     A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.‎ ‎     The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make ‎ mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: ‘I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.’‎ ‎1.The main idea of this passage is[A] examinations exert a pernicious influence on education.‎ examinations are ineffective.‎ ‎[C] examinations are profitable for institutions.‎ ‎[D] examinations are a burden on students.‎ ‎2.The author’s attitude toward examinations is ‎[A]detest.‎ approval.‎ ‎[C] critical.‎ ‎[D] indifferent.‎ ‎3.The fate of students is decided by[A] education.‎ institutions.‎ ‎[C] examinations.‎ ‎[D] students themselves.‎ ‎4.According to the author, the most important of a good education is ‎[A] to encourage students to read widely.‎ to train students to think on their own.‎ ‎[C] to teach students how to tackle exams.‎ ‎[D] to master his fate.‎ ‎5.Why does the author mention court?‎ ‎[A] Give an example.‎ For comparison.‎ ‎[C] It shows that teachers’ evolutions depend on the results of examinations.‎ ‎[D] It shows the results of court is more effectise.‎ Vocabulary ‎1.pernicious      有害的，恶性的，破坏性的 ‎2.knack            窍门，诀窍 ‎3.embark            乘船，登记 ‎4.write off      勾销，注销。确认某食物已损失或无效 ‎5.syllabus        教学大纲 ‎6.cram            塞入，把某物塞进，突击式学习（尤指应考），以注入方式教人 ‎7.duress            威胁，逼迫 ‎8.stack            堆，垛 ‎9.scrawl            写/画（的内容不工整，不仔细）潦草的笔迹，七扭八歪的字 ‎10.script            讲稿，剧本，脚本，笔试答卷 ‎11.cynical            愤世嫉俗的，自私得为人不齿的 ‎12.boil down      熬浓，浓缩，归纳 难句译注 ‎1.      For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite.‎ ‎【参考译文】尽管所有那些虔诚的说法说考试能测定你所知道的东西，但其结果常常是适得其反，这是众所周之的常识。‎ ‎2.      As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none.‎ ‎【结构简析】second to none固定搭配，义：不亚于任何人或事物。‎ ‎【参考译文】（测）考试作为忧虑的制造者，真是出类拔萃。‎ ‎3.      induce cramming 诱人采用突击式学习方式。Cram尽力塞入，应试突击学习。EX: cram for a chemistry test.为应付化学考试而临时抱佛脚。Cram pupils以填鸭式教学生。‎ ‎4.      Yet you have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.‎ ‎【参考译文】他们不得不在限定的时间内，给一大堆匆忙涂写而成的笔试答卷批分。‎ ‎5.      And their word carries weight.‎ ‎【参考译文】可他们的话/文字（这里指分数）有份量（有影响）。‎ ‎6.      This is what it boils down to in the last analysis.‎ ‎【参考译文】这就是最终分析所归纳的一切。‎ 写作方法与文章大意 ‎     这是一篇类似分类写作的文章。罗列了考试种种恶果。作者首先指出考试难以测定人的真正能力和水平，反而是适得其反。二是考试是忧虑的制造者，因为它决定了人的成败命运。三是考试促使学校进行应试技巧教育，否定了教会人独立思考、扩大视野。四是教师或者说测试人又累又饿，犯错误，还得在限定时间披阅成堆的试卷，他们的压力和考试者一样很大，而他们的话――分数有份量，审判官的裁决，你有权上诉，而他们的裁决――一笔定终身。‎ ‎     最后引用“辍学者成为百万富翁”来点明测试这种形式对教育的坏影响。‎ 答案详解 ‎1.      A 考试对教育具有有害的影响。文章第一段就点明：考试是测试记忆的好方法，是测试在巨大压力下快速工作的技巧的好方法，却测不出一个人的真正能力和水平。第三段集中指出：考试不是促进学生广泛阅读，反而限制其阅读；考试不能使学生追求更多的知识，而是诱导学生进行应付考试的突击式学习。他们降低了教学水平，因为他们剥夺了老师的一切自由。常常以考试结果而不是所教课程来评定老师，是他们不得不以他们所轻视的考试技巧来培训学生。第二段和第四段也涉及其后果。‎ B.考试无效。这是考试后果的一个方面。C.考试对教育机构有利。这也是一个方面。D.考试对学生是一种负担。‎ ‎2.      C 批评的。第一段中作者明确指出，考试方法依旧，不能测出人的能力和水平。第二段点名，这种无用的考试决定人生的成败。第三段说考试最成功的考试者经常不是最佳的受教育者，他们是在胁迫下最佳获得考试技巧者，而好的教育应能培养人的独立思考。第四段涉及阅卷者又累又饿，常犯错误，不得不在限定时间披阅一大堆匆忙中七扭八歪写出的卷子。最后一句“我过去是一个是来岁的辍学者，现在我是一个年轻的百万富翁”画龙点睛地指出，考试指挥下的教育的失败。这一切都说明作者对考试的批评态度。‎ A.嫌恶，厌恶。此答案从意义上说是对的。但语法不通，因为这是个东西，而is后要求是名词或形容词。B.赞成。D.漠不关心的。‎ ‎3.      C 考试。答案在第二段，考试是最终忧虑制造者，那是因为许多事情取决于考试：它们是我们社会中成功或失败的标志。你的未来可能全取决于这决定性的一天。‎ A.教育。B.教育机构。D.学生自己。‎ ‎4.      B 培养学生进行独立思考。第三段第一句话点明：好的教育应该是培养学生自己独立思考。‎ A.鼓励学生广泛阅读。教学生如何应考。C.教学生如何应考。D.掌握自己命运。‎ ‎5.      B 作对比，答案在最后一段倒数第二句“审判官裁决后，你有权力上诉，而披阅考卷人给分后，学生可没有上诉权”后面又谈及“一想到考试只对进行考试的机构有礼，未免太自私了。这酒是最终分析归纳的东西。”所以作者呼吁，可定还有许多更简便，更有效的评估人真正能力的方法。‎ A.给出一个例子。C.表示老师是由考试结果评定好坏。这是第三段讲的不分内容，教师他们自己常由考试结果而不是所教课程优劣来评定。所以他们不得不对学生进行应试技巧教育，降低教学水平。D.表明审判官裁决更有效。‎ Passage Five (Killing in the Name of God     Ugandan Deaths Spotlight Rise of Cults)      ‎ How could faith beget such evil? After hundreds of members of a Ugandan cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, died in what first appeared to be a suicidal fire in the village of Kanungu two weeks age, police found 153 bodies buried in a compound used by the cult in Buhunga, 25 miles away. When investigators searched the house of a cult leader in yet another village, they discovered 155 bodies, many buried under the concrete floor of the house. Then scores more were dug up at a cult member’s home. Some had been poisoned; others, often-young children, strangled. By week’s end, Ugandan police had counted 924 victims – including at least 530 who burned to death inside the sealed church – exceeding the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide and killings by followers of American cult leader Jim Jones that claimed 913 lives.‎ ‎     Authorities believe two of the cult’s leaders, Joseph Kibwetere, a 68-year-old former Roman Catholic catechism teacher who started the cult in 1987, and his “prophetess, ” Credonia Mwerinde, by some accounts a former prostitute who claimed to speak for the Virgin Mary, may still be alive and on the run. The pair had predicted the world would end on Dec. 31, 1999. When that didn’t happen, followers who demanded the return of their possessions, which they had to ‎ surrender on joining the cult, may have been systematically killed.‎ ‎     The Ugandan carnage focuses attention on the proliferation of religious cults in East Africa’s impoverished rural areas and city slums. According to the institute for the study of American religion, which researches cults and sects, there are now more than 5,000 indigenous churches in Africa, some with apocalyptic or revolutionary leanings. One such group is the Jerusalem Church of Christ in Nairobi’s Kawangwara slums, led by Mary Snaida-Akatsa, or “mommy” as she is known to her thousands of followers. She prophesies about the end of the world and accuses some members of being witches. One day the brought a “special visitor” to church, an Indian Sikh man she claimed was Jesus, and told her followers to “repent or pay the consequences.”‎ ‎     Most experts say Africa’s hardships push people to seek hope in religious cults. “These groups thrive because of poverty,” says Charles Onyango Obbo, editor of the Monitor, an independent newspaper in Uganda, and a close observer of cults. “People have no support, and they’re susceptible to anyone who is able to tap into their insecurity.” Additionally, they say, AIDS, which has ravaged East Africa, may also breed a fatalism that helps apocalyptic notions take root.‎ ‎     Some Africans turn to cults after rejecting mainstream Christian churches as “Western” or “non-African.” Agnes Masitsa, 30, who used to attend a Catholic church before she joined the Jerusalem Church of Christ, says of Catholicism: “It’s dull.”‎ ‎     Catholic icons. Yet, the Ugandan doomsday cult, like many of the sects, drew on features of Roman Catholicism, a strong force in the region. Catholic icons were prominent in its buildings, and some of its leaders were defrocked priests, such as Dominic Kataribabo, 32, who reportedly studied theology in the Los Angeles area in the mid-1980s. He had told neighbors he was digging a pit in his house to install a refrigerator; police have now recovered 81 bodies from under the floor and 74 from a field nearby. Police are unsure whether Kataribabo died in the church fire.‎ ‎     Still, there is the question: How could so many killings have been carried out without drawing attention? Villagers were aware of Kibwetere’s sect, whose followers communicated mainly through sign language and apparently were apprehensive about violating any of the cult’s commandments. There were suspicions. Ugandan president Yoweri Mseveni told the BBC that intelligence reports about the dangerous nature of the group had been suppressed by some government officials. On Thursday, police arrested an assistant district commissioner, the Rev. Amooti Mutazindwa, for allegedly holding back a report suggesting the cult posed a security ‎ threat.‎ ‎     Now, there are calls for African governments to monitor cults more closely. Says Gilbert Ogutu, a professor of religious studies at the University‎ of ‎Nairobi: “When cult leaders lose support, they become dangerous.”‎ ‎1.Why did so may Ugandans die in faith?‎ ‎[A] Many of them were killed for asking for the return of their possessions.‎ They found the cult’s leaders had cheated them.‎ ‎[C] They lost faith in cults.‎ ‎[D] They are willing to die.‎ ‎2.The main reason of people’s joining the cults is ‎[A] poverty.‎ insecurity.‎ ‎[C] AIDS.‎ ‎[D] fatalism.‎ ‎3.What does Mary Snaide Akatsa prophesy?‎ ‎[A] She prophesies the world will be flooded.‎ She prophesies the world will be in fire.‎ ‎[C] She prophesies about the end of the world.‎ ‎[D] She prophesies he followers should die in faith.‎ ‎4.Why do some Africans reject Christian‎ ‎Churches?‎ ‎[A] They feel Christianity is dull.‎ They reject Christian‎ ‎Churches as Western or non-African.‎ ‎[C] They are susceptible.‎ ‎[D] They are dangerous persons.‎ ‎5.How could so many killing have been carried out without drawing attention?‎ ‎[A] The cult acted secretly.‎ The government officials did not see through its dangerous nature.‎ ‎[C] There were no preventive measures.‎ ‎[D] People were frightened.‎ Vocabulary ‎1.beget                  产生，引起，招致 ‎2.cult                  祭礼，狂烈的崇拜（者），迷信，邪教 ‎3.compound                  院子，场地 ‎4.strangle                  扼死，闷死 ‎5.carnage                  残杀，大屠杀，成堆的尸体 ‎6.catechism            教理问答 ‎7.prophet                  预言者，先知 ‎8.on the run            在逃 ‎9.proliferation            扩散，繁殖 ‎10.indigenous            本土的，土生土张的 ‎11.apocalypse            （基督教）启事（录）《圣经新约》‎ ‎12.be susceptible            易受人影响 ‎13.ravage                  蹂躏，劫掠 ‎14.fatalism            宿命论 ‎15.apocalyptic            预警 ‎16.icon                  （东正教）圣像 ‎17.doomsday            世界末日 ‎18.Jerusalem            耶路撒冷，喻：天堂 ‎19.Kenya                  肯尼亚 ‎20.Nairobi                  内罗毕，肯尼亚首都 ‎21.mommy                  嬷嬷＝mother ‎22.repent                  忏悔 ‎23.Sikh                  锡克教（信徒）‎ ‎24.defrock                  免去…圣职的。这里指：免去圣职的牧师 ‎25.sect                  宗教小组 ‎26.pose                  提问 难句译注1.      …the Movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God…‎ ‎【结构简析】Ten commandments 十戒，是圣经中上帝再西奈山上给予摩西（犹太人的古代领袖）十大行为的神圣准则：‎ a)      have no other god.‎ b)      Do not make or warship idols.‎ c)      Do not take the word of the lord in vain.‎ d)      Keep the Sabbath holy.‎ e)      Honor one’s father and mother.‎ f)      Do not kill.‎ g)      Do not commit adultery.‎ h)      Do not steal.‎ i)      Do not give false evidence.‎ j)      Do not covet another’s property or wife.‎ 这十戒为犹太教、基督教的教条。‎ ‎     【参考译文】这是乌干达回复上帝十戒运动头目以上帝的名义在2000年屠杀了924名信徒。‎ ‎2.      the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide and killings by followers of American cult leader Jim Jones that claimed 913 lives.‎ 这是指美国的一个邪教组织――人民圣殿教。‎1978年11月19日教徒在教主Jim Jones的蒙骗或胁迫下在圭亚那集体自杀或扼杀（或强制和下Kool-Aid）或遭袭击而死。人数高达913。此后Jones一词意为残忍的人。杀人的地点就成为Jonestown。‎ ‎3.      they are susceptible to any one who is able to tap into their insecurity.‎ ‎【参考译文】他们易受任何人的影响，这些人能利用他们不安的情绪。‎ ‎4.      drew on features of Roman Catholicism.‎ ‎【参考译文】利用罗马天主教义等特点。‎ 写作方法与文章大意 ‎     文章以因果写作方法，先提出各种邪教残害的人数，然后一一点出邪教兴起的原因：人民贫穷、艾滋病之猖獗，为宿命论提供了温床。加上邪教头目种种欺骗手段：如世界末日来临利用一些正教教义或以基督、圣母玛利亚的身份出现控制、麻木信徒，一旦欺骗手段暴露信徒就惨遭杀害。‎ 答案详解 ‎1.      A 许多人由于要归还他们的财产而遭到杀害。答案见第二段倒数第二句，这一对邪教领袖曾预言世界将于‎1999年12月31日借宿――世界末日来临。结果并没有发生，追随者就要求归还他们在入教时献上的一切，而遭到有计划有步骤地杀害。‎ B. 他们发现邪教头目欺骗他们。这只是起因之一，如果发现后不吭声也许不会遭劫。C.他们对邪教失去了信任。D. 他们愿意去死。‎ ‎2.      A 贫穷。主要原因就是穷。答案见第四段。许多专家认为非洲之艰苦生活促使人民在邪教中寻找希望。这些邪教群体之兴起就是因为贫穷。人民没有支柱、保障，很容易受影响。任何人都可利用他们不安的情绪。其次艾滋病在东非之猖獗，培育出宿命论观点，从而帮助预示可怕事情即将来临的思想扎根于心灵。‎ B.不安全。C.艾滋病。D.宿命论。‎ ‎3.      C 她预言世界末日。‎ A.她预言世界将遭水淹。B.她预言世界将烧光。D.她预言她的追随者将死于信仰。‎ ‎4.      B 他们把基督教会视为西方的或非非洲的而拒之门外。见第五段：有些非洲人在把基督教会视作西方的或非非洲的而拒之门外后皈依邪教。‎ A.认为基督教非常沉闷单调。C.他们易受影响。D.他们是一伙危险人物。‎ ‎5.      A 邪教行动神秘。例：第一段中描述的好几百乌干达邪教组织成员死于初看好像是自杀性的火焰之中（自焚），在一个场院诱发现了153具尸体，在搜查邪教头目的房子中又发现了156具尸体，许多埋于房子的混凝土地板下面，还有好几十具从邪教成员家中挖出，其中有些人被毒死。其他，特别是孩子都是扼杀（窒息而死）。共计924人，至少有530人烧死在封闭的教堂里。倒数第三段，乌干达世界末日邪教一个头目――免去圣职的牧师，据说80年代中他研究神学，他告诉邻居他在家挖一个地窖放冰箱。现在警察发现地板下81具尸体，附近一场地74具尸体。上述两例都是神秘杀害，至于要归还财产之人更遭神秘杀害了。‎ B.政府官员没有看出邪教的危险性（原因之一）。C.没有防范措施。D.人民害怕。‎