Four million children are caught up in the war in Syria. Thirteen-year-old Rabia is one of them. Tall and thin, she sits shaking in a yellow T-shirt at the Al Marj settlement, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Home for Rabia was once a two-story house near Damascus. Now it is a tent shared with her nine family members.
Rabia’s face is covered with dirt, and she is tired and cold. She has just finished work, picking up potatoes that fell from a truck. Her typical day starts at 4 a.m., and she works a double shift that lasts about 16 hours, putting potatoes into bags. The only choice for her is that she can choose the first eight hours or the second eight hours. For this, she gets paid about $8 a day.
Working means Rabia misses school. Back in her village, she was the best in her class and good at everything. Her favorite subjects were Arabic literature and math. But, like many children now living in the settlements—there are no official refugee （難民）camps in Lebanon —that was Rabia’s old life. Life before war, before her family moved five times to escape the bombs, before leaving behind her bedroom, her toys and her friends without packing a bag, before “half the people I know”were dead.
The old life was full of laughter with her sister, Wala. But Wala, 14, got married two days ago to an 18-year-old Lebanese. Rabia is happy for her sister. Life in the settlement is tough— the children have nowhere to play, the bathing is poor and sexual abuse is out of control. You can’t blame parents —often confused, illiterate （不識字的）and poor—who want to marry off their daughters. They fear for their safety.
Increasing numbers of Rabia’s girlfriends are getting married. Once in rural Syria, a girl got married at 16. According to UNICEF, the age is now dropping to 12 or 13. It is no secret that Lebanese men want to marry Syrian refugee girls, who work hard and don’t ask for anything.
小題1:Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?
A．A news report.B．A book review.
C．A history book.D．A travel magazine.
小題2:The underlined word “shift”in Para. 3 probably refers to _____.
A．the extra taskB．the low pay
C．the potato factory.D．the working period
小題3:The writer's purpose for writing Para. 4 is to ________.
A．present the dream of RabiaB．show the damage of the war
C．predict the future of Syrian girlsD．compare the life before war and now
小題4:Why are so many young Syrian girls getting married?
A．They have no good friends to play with.
B．They want money from the husband family.
C．Their parents are worried about their safety.
D．Their parents are confused，illiterate and poor.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：文章通過敘利亞女孩Rabia的故事向人們報(bào)道了敘利亞戰(zhàn)后的糟糕的形勢，人們的正常生活受到破壞，很多女孩很早就結(jié)婚，以此獲得安全。
小題1:文章題材題：文章通過敘利亞女孩Rabia的故事向人們報(bào)道了敘利亞戰(zhàn)后的糟糕的形勢，人們的正常生活受到破壞，很多女孩很早就結(jié)婚，以此獲得安全。所以是一篇新聞報(bào)道，不是書評，歷史書，也不是旅游雜志，選A
小題2:猜詞題：從第三段的句子：The only choice for her is that she can choose the first eight hours or the second eight hours.可知Rabia 每天工作兩個(gè)工作時(shí)段持續(xù)16小時(shí)，所以shift="working" period，選D
小題3:段落大意題：從第四段的內(nèi)容：可知戰(zhàn)爭讓Rabia輟學(xué)，失去家園，失去朋友，成為難民，使很多人死亡，所以這段講的是戰(zhàn)爭的危害，選B
小題4:推理題：從倒數(shù)第二段的句子：You can’t blame parents —often confused, illiterate （不識字的）and poor—who want to marry off their daughters. They fear for their safety. 可知很多父母讓年輕的女孩結(jié)婚是因?yàn)閾?dān)心她們的安全。選C。
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Norm Pethrick, who with his wife had been collecting water, immediately went to help her. He jumped onto the back, poked (戳) the eyes of the crocodile and finally got his wife free.
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