题文
Poverty today is a major global issue．Although there are all kinds of definitions used to explain it, in simple words, it means the inability of a person to even get his basic needs of food, shelter, clothing, safe drinking water, health and education．Poverty can be found in each and every comer of the world, although the causes may differ from country to country．Given below are the main causes of poverty in the world today．Overpopulation is one of the main causes behind the threatening of poverty on an individual level as well as a social level．This is simple math: If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor．
Another theory which is used as an explanation for poverty is lack of education．If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low．Lack of education means lack of employment opportunities, thus leading to unemployment coupled with poverty in the future．
Moving away from one's own homeland to another city or country in search of employment leads to poverty too．It may take these people a lot of time to find jobs．Meanwhile they live in bad conditions．The cost of living in the city or country is most of the time too high for them．
There may be other causes of poverty like the change in business．For example, in America, a couple of decades ago, heavy industry flourished, which employed a lot of African-American people．But now, the focus is more on information technology and health care, both of which employ only skilled and trained people．This has led to unemployment among African-Americans．
Poverty has many ill effects on society．That's why steps should be taken to get rid of it!
小题1:What's the meaning of the underlined word "flourished" in Paragraph 5?
（No more than 5 words）
小题2:Why is overpopulation a cause of poverty today? （No more thanl2 words）
小题3:What's the situation of education m underdeveloped countries? （No more than 8 words）
小题4:What does the passage mainly talk about?（No more than 10 words）
小题5:In your opinion, what's the most significant cause of poverty today? Please give your reason．（No more than 25 words） 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:developed (quickly)(形式及时态错不给分)
小题2:Because there're more mouths to feed and less income.
小题3:The level of education is very low.
小题4:Main causes of poverty in the world today.
小题5:Lack of education. People without good education can't adapt to society, so they’re much likely to suffer from poverty.(答案可不同）
解析
本文主要谈论的是世界上贫困的主要原因。
小题1:从文章which employed a lot of African-American people．both of which employ only skilled and trained people．可知以前重工业发达的时候，雇佣了很多的非洲裔的美国人，而现在不一样了很多人失业了，故应该是发达的，故填developed
小题2:从This is simple math: If there are more mouths to feed and less income, definitely much will remain poor．可知此处的原因是因为有更多的人需要吃饭，又没有多少收入的来源。故填Because there are more mouths to feed and less income.
小题3:从文章If you look at any of the underdeveloped countries, you will find that the level of education there is very low．可知在不发达地区，人们的教育水平非常低。
小题4:从文章Poverty can be found in each and every comer of the world, although the causes may differ from country to country．Given below are the main causes of poverty in the world today．可知本文主要谈论的是世界上贫困的主要原因。
小题5:可以从缺乏教育或是缺乏基本的技能和致富的想法上去说明，答案可不同。
点评：此类文体对贫困引起的原因进行了说明阐述，对各个主要的原因进行了详细的说明。本文不难，对于此类的说明文的阅读，学生需要先采用将第一自然段及下面每段的第一句话进行阅读，进而看第一题，第一题如果是主旨类的题型可先不做，做第二题。如此带着问题在文章中找答案，既节约时间又正确率高。
考点
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1、浏览试题，明确要求。
在阅读文章前，最好先浏览一下文章后面的题干和选项。知道了问题后再去看文章，可使思路更敏捷，而且也便于阅读时留意文中出现的与选项有关的信息。
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在不影响理解的前提下，尽可能地阅读以便在尽可能短的时间内理解文章或段落的内容。阅读时，如遇到不熟悉的单词、词组或一时看不懂的句子，不要停下来苦思冥想，继续读下去，通过上下文的词语和句子可能就理解了。
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要用全文的中心思想统帅各个题目，研究其内在联系和逻辑关系，并依次审核那些还未打上的题目，确保理解无误。
