问题 选择题

请根据题目要求,在四个选项中选出一个最恰当的答案。

过去20年中,美国玉米年产量一直在全球产量的40%左右波动,2003-2004年度占到41.8%,玉米出口更曾占到世界粮食市场的75%。美国《新能源法案》对玉米乙醇提炼的大规模补贴,使得20%的玉米从传统的农业部门流入工业部门,粮食市场本来紧绷的神经拉得更紧。由于消费突涨,2006-2007年度全球玉米库存出现历史低位,比2005-2006年度剧减了2800万吨。难怪一年中全球粮油主产区的任何一个地方出现持续干旱或洪涝灾害,全球期货现货市场都会出现强烈反应。

这段文字意在表明

A.全球粮食市场正面临着库存紧张的严重危机

B.美国在世界玉米市场中占有举足轻重的低位

C.对玉米乙醇提炼的补贴是一个不合时宜的举措

D.美国生物能源业的发展影响全球粮食供求关系

答案

选D

主旨题。因果结构,因果链条的首端是美国发展生物能源业(玉米乙醇提炼),中端是对玉米的大规模消耗,末端是全球粮食供求紧张。

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Seeking to build support among black families for its education reform law, the Bush administration paid a prominent black pundit $240,000 to promote the law on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.
The campaign, part of an effort to promote No Child Left Behind (NCLB), required commentator Armp Williams "to regularly comment on NCLB during the course of his broadcasts," and to interview Education Secretary Rod Paige for TV and radio spots that were aired during the show in 2004.
Williams said Thursday he understands that critics could find the arrangement unethical,but "I wanted to do it because it’s something I believe in." The top Democrat on the House Education Committee, Rep. George Miller of California, called the contract "a very questionable use of taxpayers’ money" that is "probably illegal".
The contract, detailed in documents obtained by USA TODAY through a Freedom of Information Act request, also shows that the Education Department, through the Ketchum public relations firm, arranged with Williams to use contacts with America’s Black Forum, a group of black broadcast journalists, "to encourage the producers to periodically address" NCLB. He persuaded radio and TV personality Steve Harvey to invite Paige onto his show twice. Harvey’s manager, Rushion McDonald, confirmed the appearances.

As mentioned in the passage, Rod Paige was certainly __

A. a secretary in charge of education in the NCLB program
B. a secretary in charge of TV Education for American children
C. one of the many men interviewed on radio in 2004
D. the man in charge of the Education Ministry of the United States