8．Some weird，wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010：
★A Copenhagen bus company has put"love seats"on 103of its vehicles for people looking for a partner．"Even love at first sight is possible on the bus，"said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a"love seat"sign．
★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona，Italy，found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display．The phones will help"the dead"contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake．
★A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist，approaching the clerk's window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying"give me the money!"
★An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel，a challenge he had been preparing for two years．The whole cost is 400dollars．
★A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as"the teeth that saved the world"sold for nearly 18，000pounds （21，500euros，24，000dollars） at auction．
★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin．She was fined 250pounds （400dollars，280euros） after pleading guilty．
★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died．
★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400dollars separately．
★A Kuwaiti MP（議員） proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives，in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state．
50．What is special about the coffin in the second news？B
A．It is golden B．It has a cell phone．
C．It is a luxury D．It has many items
51．What is the probable meaning of the underlined word heist in the third news？A
A．robbery B．proposal
C．begging D．raising money
52．Who has to spend 400dollars to do the surgery？C
A．A British woman who dumped a cat in a rubbish bin．
B．One who bought Winston Churchill's artificial teeth．
C．An Australian man who shot in bottom to test the hurt．
D．An Englishman crossing the Channel without legs and arms．
53．From the last news we can infer thatD．
A．In Kuwait many men are eager to get married
B．A lot of rich single men lived in Kuwait
C．There are quantities of oil in Kuwait
D．There are many single women in Kuwait．
分析 本文是一篇新聞?wù)洠闹姓浟艘恍┢婀值挠腥さ?010年的新聞：
一家哥本哈根的汽車公司在103輛車輛上為尋找伴侶的人們安置了愛情座位．公司發(fā)言人解釋說，每一輛車上的兩個愛情座位覆蓋有紅布和"愛情座位"的標志．他說，"在公共汽車上一見鐘情是有可能的．"
在意大利的維羅納的在一個國際奢侈品博覽會上的購物者發(fā)現(xiàn)展品中一口裝備有手機的黃金棺材．如果被誤作死人活埋了，這部手機將幫助"這個死人"聯(lián)系親屬．
為成功搶銀行，紐約一名劫匪想出了一種非常忽悠人的辦法． 他舉著一大捧花走向銀行柜臺，并遞出一張紙條，上面寫著"交出錢來！"．
因電擊事故而失去四肢的一位英國男子成功游過英吉利海峽．為了完成這項挑戰(zhàn)，他已付出了兩年的艱辛努力．總計費用是400美元．
以"拯救了世界的牙齒"而聞名的英國戰(zhàn)時首相溫斯頓制造的一套假牙在拍賣會上以近18，000英鎊（合21，500歐元，24，000美元）被買走．
英國一位婦女因被攝像頭拍下把小貓丟進垃圾桶而在網(wǎng)上引起公憤．她被處以250英鎊（合400美元，280歐元）罰款．
在英國廣播公司（BBC）一名節(jié)目主持人開玩笑稱女王伊麗莎白二世"駕崩"后，BBC為此誠懇道歉．
兩名澳大利亞男子在喝酒后，互射對方臀部體驗疼痛感后需要接受外科治療．他們每人被收費400美元．
科威特一名議員提議為男性公民"娶二房"提供補助，以便解決這個產(chǎn)油大國剩女過多的問題．
解答 50．B．本題是細節(jié)理解題．本文第二則新聞描述了一口裝備有手機的黃金棺材和手機的用途，由此推斷這口棺材的特別之處在于手機，因此答案選擇B．
51．A．本題是詞匯猜測題．根據(jù)第三則新聞中的note的內(nèi)容"give me the money!（把錢給我！）"可以推斷這個紐約人在搶劫銀行，所以選擇robbery（搶劫），由此判斷答案是A．
52．C．本題是細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的"were charged 400dollars separately（每人被收費400美元）"可知答案是C．
53．D．本題是推斷題．根據(jù)最后一則新聞中的細節(jié)"in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women 為了減少大量的未婚婦女"推斷，科威特單身女性
非常多，以至于議員提議補助男性娶第二名妻子．所以答案選擇D．
點評 本文是2010年的奇趣新聞?wù)洠@種類型的閱讀沒有特定的主題，每一則新聞講述不同的話題，所以題目的設(shè)計側(cè)重細節(jié)，解題時也要特別留意細節(jié)．題目中涉及兩條細節(jié)題，細節(jié)題一定要在文章中定位細節(jié)，仔細理解細節(jié)的內(nèi)容再做出合理的解答；本題中還涉及一道詞義猜測題和一道推斷題．不管是詞義猜測還是推斷都要從文章中找具體的解題依據(jù)．
