Which of the following is true according to the passage a. The 1997 storm killed more than 250 people. b. The economic losses caused by the 1997 storm were 90.8 billionyuan. c. More than 1,800 people were wounded when the typhoon hit Zhejiang Province. d. The government evacuated 40,000 people to avoid more casualties.
参考答案：C
解析：[听力原文]One of the worst typhoons to hit China in several years has killed 63 people and injured more than 1,800 as it battered southeastern Zhejiang Province. Most of the casualties occurred when homes collapsed. Officials had evacuated 400,000 people to escape the typhoon that was forecast to be the worst since 1997 when a storm ripped into China, killing nearly 250 people and causing 19.8 billion yuan in economic losses.
[分析]： 数字信息的找寻和判断。 根据原文“Officials has evacuated 400,000 people to escape the typhoon that was forecast to be the worst...”可知政府在作出台风预报后就疏散了人们，而不是如选项d所言疏散是为了避免更大的灾害，暗示疏散是台风发作之后才进行的，根据原文关于1997年台风的描述“...killing nearly 250 people and causing l9.8 billion yuan in economic losses.”可知选项a中数字前more than与原文nearly不符，而19.8与选项b中90.8不符；根据原文“injured more than 1,800 as it battered southeastern Zhejiang Province”，选项C内容与之相符，因此该项是正确答案。[解题关键] 掌握与数字及其相关的信息，可帮助正确判断选项。本题较为复杂，既考查听者听数字的能力，又考查听者对数字相关信息，如原文数字前的nearly等注意情况。
