1998年P(guān)assage 1

　　Few creations of big technology capture the imagination like giant dams. Perhaps it is humankind's long suffering at the mercy of flood and drought that makes the ideal of forcing the waters to do our bidding so fascination. But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind. Several giant dam projects threaten to do more harm than good.

　　The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves. Egypt's leadership in the Arab world was cemented by the Aswan High Dam. Turkey's bid for First World status includes the giant Ataturk Dam.

　　But big dams tend not to work as intended. The Aswan Dam, for example stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left - all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.

　　And yet, the myth of controlling the waters persists. This week, in the heart of civilized Europe, Slovaks and Hungarians stopped just short of sending in the troops in their contention over a dam on the Danube. The huge complex will probably have all the usual problems of big dams. But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.

　　Meanwhile, in India, the World Bank has given the go ahead to the even more wrong headed Narmada Dam. And the bank has done this even though its advisors say the dam will cause hardship for the powerless and environmental destruction. The benefits are for the powerful, but they are far from guaranteed.

　　Proper, scientific study of the impacts of dams and of the cost and benefits of controlling water can help to resolve these conflicts. Hydroelectric power and flood control and irrigation are possible without building monster dams. But when you are dealing with myths, it is hard to be either proper, or scientific. It is time that the world learned the lessons of Aswan. You don't need a dam to be saved.

　　51. The third sentence of paragraph 1 implies that _____.

　　[A] people would be happy if they shut their eyes to reality

　　[B] the blind could be happier than the sighted

　　[C] over-excited people tend to neglect vital things.

　　[D] fascination makes people lose their eyesight

　　[答案] C

　　[解題思路]

　　第一段第三句話是"But to be fascinated is also, sometimes, to be blind"，意思就是"但使人著迷的同時(shí)也就造成了人們的盲目"。A選項(xiàng)顯然不符合原文的意思，可是首先排除。B選項(xiàng)誤把原文中的blind理解為"瞎的"，但這個(gè)詞語(yǔ)在這里的意思是"盲目的"，因此可以排除B和D選項(xiàng)。C是正確選項(xiàng)，因?yàn)槿藗冊(cè)趂ascinated的時(shí)候都會(huì)over-excited，因此選項(xiàng)的表述符合原文的意思。

　　[題目譯文]

　　第一段第三句暗示了 。

　　[A] 如果人們對(duì)現(xiàn)實(shí)視而不見(jiàn)，他們會(huì)感到幸福

　　[B] 盲人可能比有視力的人覺(jué)得更加幸福

　　[C] 過(guò)于激動(dòng)的人們往往忽略了最重要的東西

　　[D] 對(duì)一些事物的著迷使得人們喪失了視力