Question

Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”    

Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”

What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

A. To provide different forms of amusement.     

B. To keep the cultural variety of the city.

C. To inspire its immigrant community.    

D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.

Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government ______.

A. to make an experiment                                 B. to perform a research

C. to start a marketplace                                    D. to operate a business

According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______.

A. market management                                     B. travel industry

C. community service                                       D. city planning

It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports ______.

A. the protection of different cultures                 B. the plan of an open-air market

C. the request of merchants                               D. the attitude of shoppers

Answer 1

【小题1】B

【小题2】C

【小题3】C

【小题4】A

解析:

【小题1】本题考查根据文章细节进行推理判断的能力。根据第一段中的“a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city”可知，Fidenzio Salvaton 提出这个建议的目的是帮助多伦多人们更好地理解和欣赏多伦多城市里的多元文化，真正目的在于要保持这个城市的多元文化。故正确答案为B。

【小题2】本题考查理解细节的能力。从第四段中的“…the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open –air market”可知，他们利用政府所给的2,000美元要做一次调查，看看移民来的商人是否支持举办一个户外商业的提议。故正确答案为C。

【小题3】本题考查理解细节的能力。根据最后一句话“it will prove to be good for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction”可知，这项活动对旅游业来说也有很大的益处。

【小题4】本题考查根据文章细节进行推理判断的能力。根据第四段的第一句话“Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousands dollars with which they will do a study…”可知，政府对此事很重视、很支持，由此反映础政府对多元文化采取保护的态度。