21. Why did the teenagers start the fire？

A. They were interested in playing with fire.

B. They wanted to make fun of their parents.

C. They were not satisfied with the surroundings.

D. They wanted to warm themselves.

20. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs？

A. Three girls were caught setting fire to a building.

B. The fourth girl wasn’t present when the fire broke out.

C. All the people lost their lives before police came.

D. Paris was troubled by fire during that period.

19. C　 细节理解和推理能力题。他一生仅获一次奖,故A错. 在死前患有中风,故B错.D项　 说他是唯一的孙子与文中a grandson 不符.

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L’HAY-LES-ROSES, France: Three teenage girls admitted starting a fire in a suburban Paris housing project over the weekend that killed 17 people, including three children, police said yesterday. A fourth girl was held yesterday morning.

The fire in a 19-storey building south of Paris was the third fatal blaze in the Paris area in nine days. The death toll rose to 16 after a man died late Sunday in a hospital, where seven others

were being treated for serious injuries, police said. 　

Three teenagers taken in for questioning on Sunday admitted having started the fire for fun, police said. Two of the suspects were 18-year-old, the other was 16, police said. Further details were not available.

Witnesses claimed to have seen a group of youths who lived in the building start the fire, said Patrick Seve, mayor of the town of L’HAY-LES-ROSES, near Orly airport, where the building was located.

The fire is believed to have broken out in the lobby(门厅)of the building before raging up a stairwell at least three floors. Some residents jumped from windows as the fire spread through the building’s entrance.

Authorities were investigating possible criminals in an August 26 fire that killed 14 African children and three adults in a Paris apartment building. Three days later, another fire killed seven　 in a building.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy suggested on French television on Sunday night that copycats(盲目模仿者)were at work. “Each time there is a new story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals,” Sarkozy said, promising severe punishment for anyone found guilty of arson(纵火).

18.　 A　 词义推测题。本题要通过上下文来判断，从下文看有to form Citigroup和Rockefeller also was a director of numerous companies可以推测出merged with 应为合并,联合之意.

17.　 D　 理解细节与猜测能力题。根据文章,A项错在美国队用时比加拿大队少16秒.而不是在16秒之内.B项错在他是最老的而不是第一个获胜者.C项更是与文章不符.

16.　 C　 细节理解题。1994减去1092差为92.

19. What we can infer from the passage is that __________.

　 A. James Stallman Rockefeller is a great Olympic medal winner.

　 B. James Stallman Rockefeller was in good health until he died.

　 C. James Stallman Rockefeller was very active in American society.

　 D. James Stallman Rockefeller was the only grandson of William Rockefeller.

[解题导语]本文介绍了美国年纪最大的奥运冠军詹姆斯·斯蒂尔曼·洛克菲勒本周二在格林威治的家中与世长辞，享年102岁。他在1924年的巴黎奥运会上为美国队获得了一枚赛艇金牌。

[答案与解析]

18. What does the underlined word in the last paragraph but one mean?

　 A. combined　　 B. joined　　 C. took on　　 D. together with

17. We can learn from the passage that ____________.

　　 A. the American rowing team beat the Canadian team in less than 16 seconds in 1924.

　　 B. Rockefeller was the first American medal winner.

　　 C. James Stallman Rockefeller founded the National City Bank and became president.

　　 D. His grandson thought Rockefeller had long life because of a regimented lifestyle.

16. Rockefeller lost his wife when he was ___________.

　　 A. at the age of 91　　 B. in his eighties　 C. in his nineties　　　 D. in his 1994