20小题：每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A．B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A US billionaires are back on top with Microsoft founder Bill Cates again the world's richest man in a year when even billionaires felt the heat of the global recession, Forbes magazine said Wednesday. The wealthy few did not escape big shocks this year, with net worth on the list of 793 billionaires - down from l ,125 billionaires in 2008 - plummeting t0 2. 4 trillion dollars from 4. 4trillion , Forbes said “The biggest news today is that we are here and there still are billionaires," Forbes spokeswoman Monie Begley joked at a press conference The much-watched annual rich list put Gates back on top with a net worth of 40 billion dollars, although, he saw his bank balance lose 18 billion over the last 12 months. In second came investor Warren Buffett with 37 billion dollars, despite losing 25 billion dollars this year in the value of his Berkshire Hathaway shares. Also losing 25 billion dollars, Mexican telecoms king Carlos Slim still managed to come in third with 35 billion dollars.
不错哦 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at number 17, was notable as the only top 20 members to see a net gain. That was not because of his salary, which is a symbolic one dollar a year, but thanks to re-evaluation of Bloomberg financial news agency after the mayor bought a 20 percent stake from Merrill Lynch last year for 4. 5 billion dollars. About 64 percent of the billionaires are self-made and their average age is 63. 7 , a slight rise resulting from the lower number of rich Russians and Chinese, whose average ages last year were 46 and 48. By contrast with that aging trend. Gates is a relatively youthful 53. The youngest billionaire prize this year goes to Albert von Thurn und Taxis of Germany, who is 25 and listed as having 2. 1 billion dollars. But one of the young success stories from last year - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - dropped off the list altogether. 51．Of all the millionaires mentioned above, who didn' t lose in the global recession? A．Bill Gates. B．Warren Buffett. C．Carlos Slim. D．Michael Bloomberg. 52．The sentence "The biggest news today is that we are here and there still are billionaires" may probably mean _______. A．the number of billionaires in 2009 is much smaller than that in 2008 B．the number of billionaires in 2009 is a bit larger than that in 2008 C．there are many billionaires in America, which is the biggest news today D．the biggest news is that many billionaires are at the press conference 53．How many billion dollars did the US billionaires lose in 2008 altogether mentioned in the paragraph 4? A．18. B．25. C．43. D．50. 54．What is the best title of the passage? A．Self-Made Billionaires B．What Made Billionaires C．Bill Gates Back on Top Again D．Biggest Gainer and Biggest Loser B The "Earth Hour" initiative(自发行动) started in Australia' s biggest city Sydney last year when an estimated 2. 2 million people flicked the switch - leaving the Sydney Opera House bathed in moonlight and the Harbor Bridge blacked out. Organizer Andy Ridley said Sydney ' s 60 minutes of darkness generated huge interest around the world and 23 other cities from the Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and the Middle East had now signed up to be part of the 2008 event. The eight latest cities to join "Earth Hour" are Atlanta, San Francisco and Phoenix in the US; Thailand's capital Bangkok; Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal in Canada and Dublin in Ireland. They joined Australian cities Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide; Denmark's Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense; the Philippine capital Manila, Fiji ' s biggest city Suva. Christchurch in New Zealand; Chicago; Tel Aviv and Toronto. Ridley said he expected the "Earth Hour" concept, which is managed by the conservation group WWF, to extend beyond the borders of these countries on the scheduled start time of 8:00 p. m. local time on Saturday March 29. “ I think it already has become much bigger," he said. "The idea was that anyone could do it, whether they were in a small village in France or a city like Sydney. " Ridley said the Sydney event, in which residents were asked to switch off lights and appliances for one hour, had raided awareness about the problem of global warming while reducing greenhouse gas emissions by conserving energy. "I know that on the night we thought we might be able to cut energy use in the city by five percent but it ended up being 10. 1 percent," he said. He said he hoped Earth Hour provided a "very big visual message" to politicians that climate change must be addressed quickly. “The problem is massive but we do make a difference when we all take action," he said. 55．The purpose of the "Earth Hour" activity is _____ . A．to conserve energy B．to change the climate C．to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions D．to draw people' s attention to the global warming 56．The underlined word "flick" in paragraph 2 mean . A．switch on B．switch off C．move quickly D．hit quickly
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