Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
What would you do with $590m? This is now a question for Gloria Mackenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfillment, she could do worse than read Ha ppy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.
These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly. What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms. Dunn and Mr. Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema. These purchases often become more valuable with time—as stories or memories—particularly if they involve feeling more connected to others.
This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most “happiness bang for your buck”. It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it). Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. This is apparently the reason McDonald’s restricts the availability of its popular McRib—a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.
Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfillment, not hunger. Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for most people. Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American homebuyers. But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.
1、21. According to Dunn and Norton, which of the following is the most rewarding purchase?
A A big house.
B A special tour.
C A stylish car.
D A rich meal.
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词人名Dunn and Norton和the most rewarding purchase可定位到文章第二段第五句。第五句指出，邓恩和诺顿认为，把钱花在新体验上会更好，比如有趣的旅行、特别的美食或看场电影。因此可以直接判断出B项正确，interesting trips和a special tour表示的含义相同。
错项排除：A项和C项在文中出现在第二段第二、三句，但原文指出车子和房子等物质消费带来的满足感会wear off fairly quickly（迅速消退），可见作者对物质消费的观点是负面的，因此A、C两项排除。D项中将原文中的unique偷换为rich，使选项和原文含义出现偏差，也应排除。
2、22. The author’s attitude toward Americans’ watching TV is _____.
A critical
B supportive
C sympathetic
D ambiguous
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词watching TV可定位到第三段第二句，括号内的内容修饰watching television。定位句指出，似乎大部分人如果能缩短通勤时间，多花点时间陪家人和朋友，少花点时间看电视就能更快乐，括号中指出美国人平均每年花两个月看电视。由此可知，作者认为美国人看电视的时间太长，建议少花些时间在看电视上可能会更快乐，即作者对看电视的态度是负面的、批评的，A项正确。
错项排除：supportive表明作者支持看电视，与作者的态度相反，B项排除。C项在文中没有提及，故排除。D项表示对看电视这一行为的态度不明，但原文已经明确表示most people would be better off这一立场，因此排除。
长难句分析：It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).
本句句子主干为it seems most people would be better off，其中most people would be better off为省略that的表语从句。其后的if引导条件状语从句，从句包含两个并列的谓语shorten和spend，其中spend又对应两个并列的宾语more time with friends和less of it watching television，it指代time。括号里的something是watching television的同位语，后面是省略引导词的定语从句，其主干是the average American spends…and is…。
句意为：似乎大部分人只要减少通勤时间，花更多时间与朋友家人相处，少花点时间看电视（一般美国人每年会花高达两个月看电视，而且并不会让他们更快乐），他们就会更幸福。
3、23. McRib is mentioned in Paragraph 3 to show that _____.
A consumers are sometimes irrational
B popularity usually comes after quality
C marketing tricks are often effective
D rarity generally increases pleasure
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词McRib可定位到第三段第四句，使用McRib作为例子，介绍了这款麦当劳产品的限量供应的原因，这种营销策略让麦当劳的猪排堡成为人们抢购的对象，与D项意义相同，所以选D。
错项排除：McRib的例子与消费者是否理性无关，因此A排除。文中也没有提及McRib的质量如何，因此B排除。限量供应猪排堡是一种营销手段，但该例子只是其中一种而已，并非主要介绍营销手段，故C项也排除。
4、24. According to the last paragraph, Happy Money _____.
A has left much room for readers’ criticism
B may prove to be a worthwhile purchase
C has predicted a wider income gap in the U.S.
D may give its readers a sense of achievement
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题干可定位到文章最后一段末尾。最后两句点明主题，提出虽然不是所有人都会赞同作者的观点，但大部分人在读完这本书后会觉得买这本书是值得的。money well spent与a worthwhile purchase为同义替换，因此选B。
错项排除：文章未提及与批评有关的信息，排除A项。最后一段表达了富人和穷人在消费中产生的感觉不同，但未提及收入差距，因此排除C项。文章最后一段也没有提及achievement，因此排除D项。
长难句解析：Not everyone will agree with the authors’ policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American homebuyers.
主句为主谓宾结构，主语为代词短语not everyone。which引导的定语从句修饰the authors’ policy ideas，谓语range from...to…，表示涵盖的范围从mandating more holiday time（授权增加节假日时间）到reducing tax incentives（减少征税名义）。
句意为：并非所有人都认同作者们的政策意见，包括授权增加节假日的时间和为美国购房者减税。
5、25. This text mainly discusses how to _____.
A balance feeling good and spending money
B spend large sums of money won in lotteries
C obtain lasting satisfaction from money spent
D become more reasonable in spending on luxuries
答案解析：
答案精析：第一段从一名彩票中奖者引出话题：如何能在花钱中获得快乐？第二段讲Happy Money这本书里的观点。第三段举例说明书中所说的获得幸福的各种途径。最后一段点明了这本书的局限性，但仍值得购买。全文都围绕消费与幸福感进行论述，因此C项可以概括全文，为正确答案。
错项排除：A项将feeling good和spending money看作两个对立的行为，而文中只是论述了两者之间的关系，因此与主旨矛盾。作者从未提及彩票中奖者如何处置奖金，因此排除B项。D项定位到第三段关于奢侈品消费的论述，符合原文态度，但以偏概全，故排除。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
An article in Scientific America has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you’re more beautiful than you are. We have a deep-seated need to feel good about ourselves and we naturally employ a number of self-enhancing strategies to achieve this. Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the “above average effect”, or “illusory superiority”, and shown that, for example, 70% of us rate ourselves as above average in leadership, 93% in driving and 85% at getting on well with others—all obviously statistical impossibilities.
We rose-tint our memories and put ourselves into self-affirming situations. We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem. We stalk around thinking we’re hot stuff.
Psychologist and behavioral scientist Nicholas Epley oversaw a key studying into self-enhancement and attractiveness. Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive. Visual recognition, reads the study, is “an automatic psychological process, occurring rapidly and intuitively with little or no apparent conscious deliberation”. If the subjects quickly chose a falsely flattering image—which most did—they genuinely believed it was really how they looked.
Epley found no significant gender difference in responses. Nor was there any evidence that, those who self-enhance the most (that is, the participants who thought the most positively doctored pictures were real) were doing so to make up for profound insecurities. In fact, those who thought that the images higher up the attractiveness scale were real directly corresponded with those who showed other markers for having higher self-esteem. “I don’t think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion,” says Epley. “It’s a reflection simply of people generally thinking well of themselves.” If you are depressed, you won’t be self-enhancing.
Knowing the results of Epley’s study, it makes sense that why people hate photographs of themselves so viscerally—on one level, they don’t even recognize the person in the picture as themselves. Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer’s paradise, where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyle. It’s not that people’s profiles are dishonest, says Catalina Toma of Wisconsin-Madison University, “but they portray an idealized version of themselves.”
6、26. According to the first paragraph, social psychologist has found that _____.
A our self-ratings are unrealistically high
B illusory superiority is baseless effect
C our need for leadership is unnatural
D self-enhancing strategies are ineffective
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题目可定位到文章第一段，再通过关键词social psychologist可定位到首段第三句。定位句的大意为：社会心理学家的研究结果表明，我们中70%的人认为自己的领导能力比一般人高，93%的人认为自己的驾驶能力比一般人高，85%的人认为自己的人际交往能力比一般人高。由此可知很多人对自我评价过高，这些评价是不客观的，A项说自我评价不切实际地高，两者表述相同，所以A为正确答案。
错项排除：B项中的baseless effect对应本段的above average effect，而illusory superiority（虚幻的优越感）出现在研究课题中，而不是发现的结果。C项关键词为unnatural，文中未提及，故排除。D项的self-enhancing strategies（自我提升的策略）是一种basic need（基本需求），没有被涵盖在社会心理学家的研究内容中，故排除。
7、27. Visual recognition is believed to be people’s _____.
A rapid watching
B conscious choice
C intuitive response
D automatic self-defence
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词Visual recognition可定位到原文第三段第三句。定位句指出，视觉识别（visual recognition）是一种自发的心理过程，会快速而出自直觉地发生，并且几乎不经刻意的思考。因此C为正确答案。
错项排除：A选项的rapid对应visual recognition的发生过程，而不是watching，A选项为拼凑概念，因此排除。B项与原文表述相反，visual recognition通常不是conscious（有意识）的，所以排除。文章第二段指出人们在受到批评时会自我保护，与视觉识别无关，故排除D项。
长难句分析：Rather than have people simply rate their beauty compared with others, he asked them to identify an original photograph of themselves from a lineup including versions that had been altered to appear more and less attractive.
本句主干为he asked them…rather than have people…，使用了sb. do rather than do的结构asked them to identify…使用了ask sb. to do的固定用法，from a lineup为地点状语。including versions为后置定语，修饰lineup，表明其内容。that引导的定语从句修饰versions。Have people rate their beauty是动词+宾语+宾补的结构，compared with others为方式状语，表明评定美貌的方式是和他人作比较。
句意为：他并未让实验者只是简单地把自己的外貌和别人作比较，而是让他们从一系列照片中选出代表他们真实相貌的照片，这一系列图片中包括没有修饰的原图和有过修饰而变得更好看或不那么好看的照片。
8、28. Epley found that people with higher self-esteem tended to _____.
A underestimate their insecurities
B believe in their attractiveness
C cover up their depressions
D oversimplify their illusions
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词Epley和people with higher self-esteem定位到第四段第三句。定位句大意为，那些认为被美化的形象就是真实的自己的人，自尊心会很强，可以推断出那些相信自己吸引力的人也在其他方面表现出自尊心，与B项表述相同，因此B正确。
错项排除：A项与原文含义相反，自尊心强的人并未表现出不安全感，且第四段中提及自尊心不强的人才会去掩饰自己的不安全感，因此A错误。C项中的“抑郁”只是与自我提升有关，并未提及“掩盖”的含义，故排除。D项中的delusion出现在第四句“我不认为我们得到的结果是个人妄想的证据”，未提及是否有过度简化，所以排除。
9、29. The word “viscerally” (Line 2, Para. 5) is closest in meaning to _____.
A instinctively
B occasionally
C particularly
D aggressively
答案解析：
答案精析：该词所在句大意为：在了解艾普利的研究结果以后，很多人_______地讨厌自己的真实照片，这一点就不难理解了。根据上下文艾普利所做研究的内容发现，第三段曾提及人们倾向于选择美化过的照片作为自己的形象，该现象是一种本能行为，所以对自己未经修饰的照片的否定应该是出于本能，所以viscerally与instinctively是近义词，选A。
错项排除：人们“偶尔”讨厌自己的真实照片、“攻击性强地”讨厌照片，都不符合逻辑，所以B、D可以排除。而particularly应该有参照物作对比，而文中并未存在对比，所以C也可排除。
10、30. It can be inferred that Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise because people can _____.
A present their dishonest profiles
B define their traditional lifestyles
C share their intellectual pursuits
D withhold their unflattering sides
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题目关键词Facebook is self-enhancer’s paradise可定位到第五段第二句。定位句指出了Facebook适合自我抬高者的原因是人们讨厌看到自己真实的样子，而Facebook能让人只晒出自己美化修饰过的照片，也就是说人们可以“不公开自己不吸引人的一面”，因此选择D项。
错项排除：第五段第三句指出，该现象并不等同于dishonest profiles（欺骗性个人资料），与A选项矛盾，所以排除A项。B选项把share偷换成define，使选项不符合原文，而且原文未提及traditional lifestyles（传统生活方式），所以B错误。C选项对应the cream of their wit，但没有提及对知识的追求，也可排除。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries. And yet, it would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bust cycle. Certain jobs have gone away for good, outmoded by machines. Since technology has such an insatiable appetite for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we can’t immediately foresee.
When there is exponential improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened. This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MIT’s Center for Digital Business.
This is a powerful argument, and a scary one. And yet, John Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.
Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U. S. that tend to be “tightly scripted” and “highly standardized” ones that leave no room for “individual initiative or creativity”. In short, these are the types of jobs that machines can perform much better than human beings. That is how we have put a giant target sign on the backs of American workers, Hagel says.
It’s time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work. Hagel says. In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination “to respond to unexpected events”. That’s not something machines are good at. They are designed to perform very predictable activities.
As Hagel notes, Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book. We need to reframe race against the machine as race with the machine. In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it. So then the problem is not really about technology, but rather, “how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?”
11、31. According to the first paragraph, economic downturns would _____.
A ease the competition of man vs. machine
B highlight machines’ threat to human jobs
C provoke a painful technological revolution
D outmode our current economic structure
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题目可定位到第一段，再根据关键词economic downturns可定位到首段第一句。定位句指出，从工业革命时期开始就有人和机器的竞争了，但这一竞争的感觉在经济衰退（economic downturns）时尤为激烈，由此可以推断出机器给人带来的竞争压力在经济下滑时期尤为突出，B项符合题意，所以正确。
错项排除：第一段表达出机器与人之间的竞争会因经济下滑而加剧，A项与此相反，故排除。C项对应原文第一段第二句，原文指出，我们看起来正在经历一场痛苦的繁荣与萧条的轮回，但这种看法是错误的，而且痛苦一词修饰的是轮回，而不是技革命，故C项排除。D项对应第一段第三句中的经济体制被淘汰一点，但文中说的是被机器生产淘汰而非被经济下滑淘汰，因此排除。
12、32. The authors of Race Against the Machine argue that _____.
A technology is diminishing man’s job opportunities
B automation is accelerating technological development
C certain jobs will remain intact after automation
D man will finally win the race against machine
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词书名Race Against the Machine可定位到第二段。第二段介绍《与机器赛跑》一书的作者认为人类的工作因技术的进步而受到威胁，也就是说技术在逐步吞噬、减少人类的工作，与A表述意义相近，所以选A。
错项排除：文章首段指与自动化无关的工作也会面临被取代的威胁，而非自动化加速技术发展，因此排除B项。C项的关键信息remain intact（完好无损）在第二段中并未提及，相反，该书表示有些本以为不会受影响的工作也会受影响，选项与原文存在矛盾之处，故排除。D项的总结性论述也没有出现在第二段中，所以D项也排除。
13、33. Hagel argues that jobs in the U. S. are often _____.
A performed by innovative minds
B scripted with an individual style
C standardized without a clear target
D designed against human creativity
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词Hagel和jobs in the U.S.可定位到第四段第一句。定位句指出黑格尔认为美国人将工作设成tightly scripted and highly standardized（照本宣科和过度标准化），从而没有为发挥个人主动性和创造力留下空间，与D项表述的“被设计得阻碍了人类创造力”相吻合，所以正确答案为D。
错项排除：A项表示工作由那些有创新精神的人完成，文中没有提及，故排除。通过上述分析可知，美国的工作并非个性十足，因此B项排除。C项中的standardized在定位句中存在，但without a clear target出现在第四段最后一句，并非Hagel的看法，属于拼凑信息，所以C排除。
长难句分析：In our rapidly changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination “to respond to unexpected events”.
In our rapidly changing economy为地点状语，修饰主句we... need people...，more than ever修饰need，表明需求的程度。in the workplace为地点状语，后接一个who引导的定语从句，修饰people，表明所需人才应具备的素质是可以take initiative and exercise their imagination（发挥主动性并实践想象力）。引号内的不定式短语为exercise their imagination的目的状语。
句意为：在我们日新月异的经济中，我们从未如此需要在工作场合中能发挥主动，并实践想象力“来应对预料之外的事件”的人。
14、34. According to the last paragraph, Brynjolfsson and McAfee discussed _____.
A the predictability of machine behavior in practice
B the formula for how work is conducted efficiently
C the ways machines replace human labor in modern times
D the necessity of human involvement in the workplace
答案解析：
答案精析：根据题目可定位至最后一段，从关键词Brynjolfsson and McAfee可定位到最后一句。定位句指出，两人提及的是指代上文的this point，即第五段论点：现代社会需要能发挥主动性和想象力的人，机器并不具有这些能力，机器只是执行那些可预测的工作。该论点表明机器并不能取代人类，社会依然需要人类参与工作，因此选D。
错项排除：A项对应原文第五段最后一句，机器被设计出来执行可预测的工作，并非机器本身的工作可预测。B项关键词formula位于第五段第一句，但仍属于黑格尔的观点，并非后面两人的讨论内容，故A排除。C项表示机器正在取代人力，但下文第六段中内容提到，我们应该关注如何增强人力，而非让机器取代人类，原文语义与C项表述矛盾，故排除。
15、35. Which of the following could be the most appropriate title for the text?
A How to Innovate Our Work Practices
B Machines Will Replace Human Labor
C Can We Win the Race Against Machines
D Economic Downturns Stimulate Innovations
答案解析：
答案精析：本题为主旨题，第一段引出机器生产威胁人类工作的论点，第二段至第五段分析这种现象产生的原因源自工作方式未能跟上科技进步，最后一段呼吁转变工作方式。全文围绕人类工作与机器工作之间的关系展开论述，因此C项最符合题意。
错项排除：A项只提到创新，未提及受到机器进步的刺激和驱动，以偏概全，故排除。B项为一个在文中已经否定的观点，因此排除。文章没有提及机器生产与创新与经济下滑的关系，故D项错误。
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
When the government talks about infrastructure contributing to the economy the focus is usually on roads, railways, broadband and energy. Housing is seldom mentioned.
Why is that? To some extent the housing sector must shoulder the blame. We have not been good at communicating the real value that housing can contribute to economic growth. Then there is the scale of the typical housing project. It is hard to shove for attention among multibillion-pound infrastructure project, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere. But perhaps the most significant reason is that the issue has always been so politically charged.
Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate. Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.
The comprehensive spending review offers an opportunity for the government to help rectify this. It needs to put historical prejudices to one side and take some steps to address our urgent housing need.
There are some indications that it is preparing to do just that. The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt. Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.
Ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.
But it is not just down to the government. While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then. The Labour Party has recently announced that it will retain a large part of the coalition’s spending plans if returns to power. The housing sector needs to accept that we are very unlikely to ever return to era of large-scale public grants. We need to adjust to this changing climate.
While the government’s commitment to long-term funding may have changed, the very pressing for more affordable housing is real and is not going away.
16、36. The author believes that the housing sector _____.
A has attracted much attention
B involves certain political factors
C shoulders too much responsibility
D has lost its real value in economy
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词the housing sector可定位到第二段。第二段最后一句指出，可能最重要的原因是房地产问题受到政治的制约，所以选B。
错项排除：第一段指出人们很少提及房地产，A项与此矛盾，故排除。C项的responsibility在第二段出现，但原文表述为“必须承担责任”，并非表示已经承担了太多责任，因此C项排除。D项关键词real value出现在第二段第三句，但原文说我们忽视了这些住房在经济发展中真正发挥的价值，并非客观上失去了这些真正的经济价值，选项与原文矛盾，因此D项排除。
17、37. It can be learned that affordable housing has_____.
A increased its home supply
B offered spending opportunities
C suffered government biases
D disappointed the government
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词affordable housing可定位到第四段。第三段讲经济适用房面临着严峻的形势，第四段讲现在有一个机会能够改变这一状况，但需要政府放下偏见。这说明政府目前对经济适用房存在偏见，因此C项正确，其中prejudices与biases为同义词，表示“偏见”。
错项排除：第三段指出住房供应难以满足，A项与此矛盾。B项中的关键词spending opportunities与关于经济适用房的论述无关，故排除。文中并未提及经济适用房已经令政府失望了，D项属于无中生有，故排除。
18、38. According to Paragraph 5, George Osborne may _____.
A allow greater government debt for housing
B stop local authorities from building homes
C prepare to reduce housing stock debt
D release a lifted GDP growth forecast
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词人名George Osborne可定位到第五段第二句。乔治·奥斯本将采取更灵活的政策来提高政府在住房上的借债（borrow against their housing stock debt）的借债上限（current gap），即可以借更多债务用于住房方面，与A项的greater government debt含义相同，因此选择A项。
错项排除：政府要解决住房问题不可能通过减少建房的方式，B项与原文表述相反，故排除。C项与A项表达的含义相反，与原文相悖，因此排除。D项的growth forecast在原文中对应的主语是借债这一方式，而非对应奥斯本，故排除。
19、39. It can be inferred that a stable rental environment would _____.
A lower the costs of registered providers
B lessen the impact of government interference
C contribute to funding new developments
D relieve the ministers of responsibilities
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词a stable rental environment可定位到第六段。定位段指出，部长们还应该关注为租赁环境创造更多稳定性，这样对供应商提供更多的开发项目资金援助有重要影响，所以C项正确。
错项排除：A项中registered providers的对应部分为fund new developments，只是提到了对新的开发的资金投入，没有提及成本，所以A项排除。文章没有提及减少政府介入的影响，B项属于无中生有，故排除。而D项与原文意义相反，原文提及部长还应负起这部分责任，而非减轻责任，故排除。
20、40. The author believes that after 2015, the government may _____.
A implement more policies to support housing
B review the need for large-scale public grants
C renew the affordable housing grants programme
D stop generous funding to the housing sector
答案解析：
答案精析：根据关键词after 2015和the government定位到第七段第二句。原文定位句指出政府针对经济适用房的45亿英镑拨款将会在2015年过期，再根据后半句中“不太可能继续延期”，这表明这项拨款可能会停止，而D项表示慷慨的赞助将会停止，因此正确答案为D。
错项排除：A选项与原文信息完全相反，故排除。B选项中的review在原文没有体现，而且本段的宾语也不是large-scale public grants（大规模公共拨款），而是范围更精确的affordable housing（经济适用房），故排除C项。文章并没有提及更新这些项目，只提及了拨款会过期，因此排除C项。
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