Question

閱讀下面短文并回答問題，然后將答案寫到答題卡相應(yīng)的位置上，(請注意問題后面的詞數(shù)要求)。

[1] As a distinguished Indian painter and author, Aabid has written around 80 books but no story so shocked him as the truth about water shortage on the planet, “A UN report says by 2025 more than 40 countries are expected to ．That shortage of water will be the end of civilized life，”he said with great worry．

[2] One day back in 2007，he was sitting in a friend’s house and noticed a leaky tap．It bothered him．A few days later, he came across a statistic in the newspaper：a tap that drips(滴落)once every second wastes a thousand litres of water in a month．That triggered an idea．He would take a plumber(水管工)from door to door and fix taps for free every weekend.

[3] He named his Non-governmental Organization ‘Drop Dead’and created a slogan: save every drop…or drop dead．

[4] By the end of the first year，he had visited l,533 homes and fixed around 400 taps．Slowly，the news began to spread．Local newspapers began to write about Drop Dead, which caused a further flood of grateful emails and messages．Conservatively, it could be estimated that he has saved at least 5．5m litres of water till date．

[5] In the summer of 2014，the state where Aabid lives is expecting its worst drought in 40 years. Months in advance，the govemment has prepareddrought-relief packages worth millions of dollars，but Aabid sees his own approach as simple and inexpensive．“Anyone can launch a water conservation project in his or her area．It doesn’t require much funding．And most importantly, it puts the power back in our own hands，”he says．

1.Fill in the blank in Paragraph l with proper words．(no more than 5 words) ．

2.Why did Aabid take a plumber from door to door and fix taps?(no more than 6 words)

3.Explain the underlined sentence in aragraph 2 in English．(no more than 6 words)

4.What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?(no more than 10 words)

5.What does Aabid think of his water conservation approach?(no more than 4 words)

 

Answer 1

1.experience/suffer/have/face water shortage/crisis Or: be short of water/run short of water /lack water/be lacking in water

2.To help save water./To save every drop of water.

3.That started/caused/led to/brought about an idea. Or: An idea occurred to him.

4.The achievements and influence of Aabid’s water-saving project.

5.Simple and inexpensive.

【解析】

試題分析：

1. 根據(jù)第一段提到That shortage of water will be the end of civilized life，這種水的短缺是文明生活的結(jié)果。所以可以得知上句話提到的聯(lián)合國報(bào)道，到2025年有40個(gè)國家可能會面對水短缺問題。故用experience/suffer/have/face water shortage/crisis

2.根據(jù)第二段提到a tap that drips(滴落)once every second wastes a thousand litres of water in a month．That triggered an idea．He would take a plumber(水管工)from door to door and fix taps for free every weekend.他看到一個(gè)報(bào)道說，水龍頭每秒滴落的水一月有數(shù)升，他請來水管工，挨家挨戶免費(fèi)修水管，為是節(jié)約用水，所以答案是To help save water./To save every drop of water

3.根據(jù)第二段所提到的，水龍頭每秒滴落的水一月有數(shù)升，所以他產(chǎn)生一個(gè)想法，免費(fèi)修水管，來節(jié)約用水，故他突然想到一個(gè)好主意，故填寫That started/caused/led to/brought about an idea. Or: An idea occurred to him

4.根據(jù)第四段在敘述在第一年時(shí)，他修了400個(gè)水龍頭，慢慢地消息開始傳開，當(dāng)?shù)貓?bào)紙開始報(bào)道這件事，產(chǎn)生很大的影響，他節(jié)約很多的水，所以在講他節(jié)約用水的成就與影響，故填寫The achievements and influence of Aabid’s water-saving project.

5.根據(jù)最后一段提到Months in advance，the govemment has prepareddrought-relief packages worth millions of dollars，but Aabid sees his own approach as simple and inexpensive．可知他的想法是十分簡單和成本低的，。

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