Question

“Slow City” — a recently launched project focused on preserving the traditional quality of life enjoyed in some of Italy’s smaller cities and towns. The project was born from the idea of the “Slow Food” movement — started in Italy in the 1980s — which promotes leisurely eating and the growing of local, healthy products to fight against the American fast-food style.

“The American urban model has invaded our cities, making Italian towns look the same. We want to stop this kind of globalization,” says Paolo Saturnini, an Italian mayor.

The “Slow City” project plans to emphasize the rich, cultural, culinary(廚房的) and artistic local traditions of each community.

Walking areas will be enlarged and squares and parks will be made greener with more plants. Car alarms and other noise that disturbs the peace will be banned, and ugly TV aerials(天線), advertising posters, and signs will be taken down.

City councils will also insist on the use of recycling and renewable energy sources, and will also introduce ecological transport systems. Parking will be made stress-free by creating more public parking areas, and easily accessible walkways and bike lanes will cross the city. But in the “Slow City” way, all improvements will probably come about slowly.

Thirty-two Italian city councils, which joined the “Slow City” program, have decided to take further steps in this direction by increasing the numbers of traditional family-style eating establishments, reducing noise pollution, and concentrating on making their towns friendlier for people to live in.

Organic local produce will be promoted in all restaurants and genetically modified foods(轉基因食品) will be banned. “We can’t stop large, fast-food chains from coming here, but we hope that people who come to our towns will not want to eat exactly the same hamburger they can eat in Melbourne, London or Paris, but want something genuine and different,” said Saturnini.

1.According to the passage, the “Slow City” project aims at _____.

A．preventing Italy from being affected by America

B．beautifying the environment of small Italian cities and towns

C．calling on Italians to enjoy stress-free life

D．protecting the traditional Italian lifestyle

2.From Paragraphs 4-5, we can infer that ______.

A．cars in “Slow City” will have to go slowly

B．people can park their cars free of charge in “Slow City”

C．“Slow City” will take on an environmentally friendly look

D．advertising in “Slow City” will be banned

3.Further measures will be included in the “Slow City” program EXCEPT _____.

A．cutting down noise pollution

B．stop genetically modified foods

C．getting more towns involved in the project

D．building more family-style restaurants

4.In Saturnini’s opinion, when traveling in “Slow Cities”, visitors_____.

A．aren’t provided with fast food

B．will see few fast-food chains

C．can enjoy themselves like in London

D．can enjoy real Italian-style healthy food

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.C

3.C

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述的是旨在保護本國文化的“Slow Food” movement活動。

1.D 推理題。根據第一段3，4,5行“Slow Food” movement — started in Italy in the 1980s — which promotes leisurely eating and the growing of local, healthy products to fight against the American fast-food style.說明這個活動是為了保護意大利自己的文化不受美國快餐文化的影響，故D正確。

2.C 推理題。根據這兩段City councils will also insist on the use of recycling and renewable energy sources, 和ar alarms and other noise that disturbs the peace will be banned, and ugly TV aerials(天線), advertising posters, and signs will be taken down都說明這樣的活動讓我們的城市有了很環保的外貌。故C正確。

3.C 細節題。根據文章最后兩段說明ABD這三項都是“Slow City” program所要采取的新的措施，只有C項沒有涉及，故C符合題目的要求。

4.D 推理題。根據文章第三段The “Slow City” project plans to emphasize the rich, cultural, culinary(廚房的) and artistic local traditions of each community.

說明意大利原有的有特殊的食物將會被保留下來，那么游客可以享有到這樣的食物。

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點評：本文介紹了意大利興起的保護本國文化的“Slow Food” movement。測試考生在閱讀基礎上的邏輯推理能力，要求考生根據文章所述事件的邏輯關系，對未說明的趨勢或結局作出合理的推斷；或根據作者所闡述的觀點理論，對文章未涉及的現象、事例給以解釋。考生首先要仔細閱讀短文，完整了解信息，準確把握作者觀點。