题文
Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.
Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”
Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”
小题1:What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?A．To provide different forms of amusement.B．To keep the cultural variety of the city.C．To inspire its immigrant community. D．To satisfy its immigrant merchants.小题2:Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government ______.A．to make an experimentB．to perform a researchC．to start a marketplaceD．to operate a business小题3:According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______.A．market managementB．travel industryC．community serviceD．city planning小题4:It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports ______.A．the protection of different culturesB．the plan of an open-air marketC．the request of merchantsD．the attitude of shoppers 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析
小题1:本题考查根据文章细节进行推理判断的能力。根据第一段中的“a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city”可知，Fidenzio Salvaton 提出这个建议的目的是帮助多伦多人们更好地理解和欣赏多伦多城市里的多元文化，真正目的在于要保持这个城市的多元文化。故正确答案为B。
小题2:本题考
查理解细节的能力。从第四段中的“…the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open –air market”可知，他们利用政府所给的2,000美元要做一次调查，看看移民来的商人是否支持举办一个户外商业的提议。故正确答案为C。
小题3:本题考查理解细节的能力。根据最后一句话“it will prove to be good for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction”可知，这项活动对旅游业来说也有很大的益处。
小题4:本题考查根据文章细节进行推理判断的能力。根据第四段的第一句话“Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousands dollars with which they will do a study…”可知，政府对此事很重视、很支持，由此反映础政府对多元文化采取保护的态度。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Fidenzio Salvatori i.....”主要考查你对 [政治经济类阅读 ]考点的理解。政治经济类阅读
政治经济类文章的概念：
要做好这类阅读，平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事，掌握一定背景知识，对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解，还要扩展这方面的词汇。阅读这类文章，要抓住文章的核心，即文章整体和各段主要在说什么，也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。
如何备考政治经济类阅读理解题：
【题型说明】政治经济类阅读文章是高考常选材料之一。该类文章时代气息浓郁，语言鲜活，但熟字新义词、超纲词及专业词语多，长句、难句多。政治类文章大多数是同学们感性趣的内容，读起来倒有似曾相识的感觉，经济类文章读起来就像是雾里看花，文章看完，一头雾水。再加之这类文章的命题侧重于词义猜测、推理判断和文章主旨，同学们对这类题材是望而生畏。
【备考策略】建立心理优势。针对不同体裁的文章，我们要采取相应的阅读方法和技巧。政治类文章多采用记叙文形式，我们可采取“顺读法”，以便抓关键语句，领会文章主旨；而经济类文章则多采用说明文形式，我们则可以采取“逆读法”，先读试题，再从文章中查找有用信息。若遇到的确难读的材料。千万不用着急，因为你觉得难，其他人也一定是同感。在高考前，我们就要有这种心理准备，高考试卷肯定有一、两篇难以阅读的材料。不过，我们平时可以有意识地从报刊杂志上找一些较难的阅读材料来阅读，以培养自己迎难而上的心理素质。
【答题方法】
1、寻找主干：
根据英语中五种基本句型结构，把句子中的主语、谓语、宾语、表语等主要成分找出来，其他成分如定语、状语、补语等则易于理解。找到了句子主干，句子的意思至少明白了一半。
2、剔除从句：
在一个长句中可能会出现若干个从句，在理解时，如果把各个从句剔除出来单独理解，然后把大意拼凑起来，整个长句的意思就会明白六、七分。
3、辨别分句：
一个长句如果是由几个并列、转折、递进、对比关系的分句组成，句中往往有表示这些分句关系的连接词，只要能弄清楚分句和分句之间的逻辑关系，再把各层分句的意思加以连贯，整个长句的句意基本上能跃然脑中。
4、寻找关键词：
如果一个句子看完，一点句意的感觉也没有，下下策就是抓住句中的关键词，通过关键词大体弄懂这个长句的意思。
