题文
Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $10 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year. And that's just what's hiding in one closet. Who knows what's in the rest of them?Because we think the government should be held to at least the same standards as a publicly traded company, and because as taxpayers, we're America's shareholders, we performed an audit （财务检查）of sorts of the federal books. We're not economists, but we do have common sense. We tried to get help from Congressional staffers from both parties, as well as various watchdog groups and agencies. In the end, we found that the federal government wastes nearly $1 trillion every year.
That's roughly equal to the amount collected annually by the Internal Revenue Service in personal income taxes. Put another way, it's also equal to about one-third of the country's $2.9 trillion total annual budget. And reclaiming that lost trillion could help wipe out the country's annual budget deficit（赤字）, improve education, and provide health insurance for those who don't have it.
So how do you define "waste"? David Walker of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal watchdog agency, calls it "the government's failure to give taxpayers the most for their money." For our part, we used the kind of household test you would use on a piece of meat sitting in your refrigerator: If it smells rotten, it's waste. Our government regularly pays for products and services it never gets, wildly overpays companies to do things it could do more cheaply itself, loses money outright due to lax（不严格的）accounting and oversight, and spends money randomly on unnecessary programs.
How exactly does the federal government waste your hard-earned tax dollars? We've identified what we consider ten of the worst ways.
小题1:The underlined sentence in Paragraph1 really means .A．there are many other closetsB．there are some other satellitesC．there is something else in the closetsD．the waste may be quite amazing小题2:Which of the following can best describe the feeling of the author?A．Annoyed.B．Calm.C．Surprised.D．Not concerned.小题3:Which of the following statements may be right?A．The country’s annual budget is usually decided by the public.B．The government failed in launching the satellite.C．The government is only wasting money in space experiments.D．The amount collected annually in personal income taxes is equal to the country’s budget.小题4:The best title for the passage would be .A．Protecting Our Rights!B．Our Country Is In Danger!C．The Government Is Wasting Our Tax Dollars!D．How to Prevent Government from Wasting Money!小题5:What might be talked about if the passage is continued?A．The government’s taking some steps to stop wasting taxes.B．Presenting people’s feelings against the government’s wasting taxes.C．Giving suggestion to help the government solve the financial problem.D．Listing how the government is wasting taxes. 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:D
解析
小题1:推断题。文章第一段讲到，十年前联邦政府为了一个最终没有进入太空的卫星花费了一千万美金，而如今却躺在了马里兰州的一个小房间里，为了保存好它，每年需花费一百万美金，所以作者觉得这种浪费是惊人的。故选D
小题2:推断题。从第一段最后一句Who knows what's in the rest of them?
及第二段最后一句及最后一段可看出作者对于政府的做法是愤怒的，故选A。B.答案是镇定的，不对。C.惊讶的。D.漠不关心的，不对。
小题3:判断题。文中没有讲到每年预算由谁决定，排除A.文中倒数第二段，最后一句讲到政府在一些不必要的项目上随意花钱，可知，并非只浪费在太空实验中。排除C
小题4:文中主要讲到了waste浪费，故应选与waste有关的答案，故选C.文中并未提到如何来阻止这种浪费，文中并未提到有关的措施，排除D.
小题5:最后一段We've identified what we consider ten of the worst ways.可知，接下来应列举十种政府浪费行为。故选D.
点评：文章作者批评了政府浪费纳税人钱的做法，文中题目不难解答此类文章需要把握主旨，理解作者的写作态度，结合细节，在文中找答案。一般问题都不大。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Almost a decade ago,.....”主要考查你对 [社会现象类阅读 ]考点的理解。社会现象类阅读
社会现象类阅读概念：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。
社会现象类阅读解题技巧：
这类文章通过写人记事来揭示文章的主题，显示其社会意义，一般采用顺序或倒叙来叙述。题目经常是一些细节问题。考查的方面可以是原因和其中引发的思考。阅读这类文章要理清思路。
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。
2、通读全文，抓住主要内容。
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。
3、抓住中心思想和段落大意。
通读全文时，要特别注意主题句。每篇文章或每个段落都有与文章有关的句子，尤其是科技、政论性文章的主题句一般都在文章的开头或结尾，插在中间的很少。所以，文章的第一段或开头的第一、二个句子往往包含着文章的中心思想、作者的意图或全文的概述，因此要特别注意，彻底理解。
4、有针对性地仔细阅读，找寻所需信息。
在前面的基础上，可进行有针对性地阅读了。把与问题无关的内容一扫而过，而对于和问题有关的内容认真阅读，还可以用笔在下面做出记号。再把这些信息与问题的要求结合起来，逐条分析，综合判断，找出正确答案。
5、进行合理的推理判断。
对文章有了全面的了解之后，可以按照文章要求以及上下文之间的关系，做出推理判断。在进行推理判断的时候，需要综合考虑句型、语法、句子之间的逻辑关系、文化背景等方面的因素。
6、认真复读，验证答案。
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。
