The name sounds funny but the idea is no joke: it’s a personal toilet called the pee-pool, Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, is the inventor of the pee-pool.
He became interested in the idea of sanitation(衛(wèi)生設(shè)施) after taking part in a research project on the social and political development of cities, One of the most common problems he found in developing countries was the lack of toilets, He wanted to do something to help, So working with others, he started the project in 2005, and the next year started a company called Peepoolple.
The toilet is a single—use bag made of environmentally friendly plastics, The inside is treated with urea （尿素）, a chemical commonly used as fertilizer, The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste turns into what is needed by plants The sanitation process can be as soon as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks ,You can just bury it in a pot and grow whatever you like.
The company expects to start selling the bags in August in Kenya and Bangladesh, But it is just beginning production and sales in Nairobi now , Full production could reach about half a million bags a day and people may be able to buy the pee-pool in countries Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.
The United Nations says more than two and a half billion people around the world do not have good sanitation ,Many have no choice but to use the outdoors, which is not only bad for the environment ,but also harmful to people’s health, Each year, poor sanitation leads to three fifths of those people getting an infectious disease which on average causes one out of 1,000 patients to die.
Jack Smith ,the founder of the World Toilet Organization ,says “This is quite an unacceptable situation given the fact that we are living in the modem world , And strangely, many of them own televisions ,phones but have no toilet.”
小題1:What was the original purpose of Anders Wilhelmson in starting the company?
A．To protect the local environment
B．To earn a lot of money from the project
C．To do research on the social development
D．To help solve the problem of lack of toilets in developing countries
小題2:What can be learned about the pee-pool from the passage?
A．It can be used over again
B．Its sanitation process doesn’t last long
C．It works better in summer than in winter
D．It should be buried in a pot after being used
小題3:In which place can people buy the Pee-pool now?
A．NairobiB．VietnamC．SwedenD．Bangladesh
小題4:The fifth paragraph is written mainly to tell us that       
A．poor sanitation may cause many problems
B．many people don’t care for the environment
C．many people get ill from using the outdoors
D．quite a number of people died from poor sanitation
小題5:The underlined word“This ”in the last paragraph probably refers to         
A．the outdoors being damaged
B．many places being shout of toilets
C．many people having TVs and phones
D．many people getting an infection disease

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：文章介紹了環(huán)保廁所pee-pool，它解決了發(fā)展中國家缺乏廁所的問題，并且可以被利用來終止植物，可謂是一舉兩得。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第二段 One of the most common problems he found in developing countries was the lack of toilets, He wanted to do something to help，可知他開公司的目的是幫助解決發(fā)展中國家缺少廁所的問題，所以選D
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段The hotter the weather, the more quickly the waste turns into what is needed by plants可知在較熱的環(huán)境里pee-pool能更快將廢料轉(zhuǎn)化為肥料，所以選C
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第四段But it is just beginning production and sales in Nairobi now，可知pee-pool已經(jīng)在Nairobi上市，所以選A
小題4:主旨大意題。第五段主要說明了生活環(huán)境不夠清潔會(huì)產(chǎn)生的惡劣影響，比如滋生病菌等，所以應(yīng)該選A
小題5:詞義理解題。根據(jù)上下文，這里的this指的是許多發(fā)展中國家的家庭沒有廁所的情況，所以選B
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