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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. As native as the royal family, they fled the city about centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is cleaner, the foxes have come home, one of the many wild animals that have moved into urban areas around the world.
Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs. In addition, urban wildlife refuges (避難處) have been created. The Greater London Council last year spent $750, 000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from abandoned spots. One evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
　　For peregrine falcons (游隼), cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings (懸崖棲息地). By 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life. That year, scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food.
　　Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful. The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated. Such habitats can even be functional. In San Francisco, the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only which ones retain (保持) the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds

  1. 1.

    The first paragraph suggests that______.

    1. A.
      environment is the key to wildlife
    2. B.
      tour books are not always a reliable source of information
    3. C.
      London is a city of fox
    4. D.
      foxes are highly adaptable to environment
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife is returning to the cities?

    1. A.
      Food is plentiful in the cities
    2. B.
      Wildlife is appreciated in the cities
    3. C.
      Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities
    4. D.
      Air and water quality has improved in the cities
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the passage that______.

    1. A.
      Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos
    2. B.
      Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city
    3. C.
      Londoners are trying to move wild animals back to the countryside
    4. D.
      Londoners have welcomed the wild birds, but found foxes a problem
  4. 4.

    What is the passage mainly about?

    1. A.
      Wildlife returning to large cities
    2. B.
      Foxes returning to London
    3. C.
      Wild animals living in zoos
    4. D.
      A survey of wildlife in New York

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The day when the jobs were handed out was one of the most exciting moments for all the children in the class. It took place during the first week of the term. Every kid was given a job for which they would be responsible for the rest of that school year.
Some jobs were more interesting than others, and the children were eager to be given one of the best ones. When giving them out, the teacher took into account which pupils had been most responsible during the previous year. During the previous year Rita had carried out the teacher’s instructions perfectly. All the children knew Rita would be given the best job.
But there was a big surprise. Each child received a normal job. But Rita’s job was very different. She was given a little box containing some sand and one ant. Though the teacher insisted that this ant was very special, Rita felt disappointed. Most of her classmates felt sorry for her. Even her father became very angry with the teacher and he encouraged Rita to pay no attention to this insignificant pet. However, Rita preferred to show the teacher her error by doing something special with that job of little interest.
Rita started investigating all about her little ant and gave the ant the best food, and it grew quite a bit bigger.
One day, a man, who looked very important, came into their classroom and declared, “Your class has been chosen to accompany me, this summer, on a journey to the tropical rain forest, where we will investigate all kinds of insects. Among all the schools of this region, your class has best cared for the little ant.”
That day the school was filled with joy and celebration. Everyone thanked Rita for having been so patient and responsible. And many children learnt that to be given the most important task you have to know how to be responsible even in what are the smallest tasks

  1. 1.

    What did the teacher base his decision on when giving out jobs to the children?

    1. A.
      Their characters and interests
    2. B.
      Their class performance during the previous year
    3. C.
      Their working performance during the previous year
    4. D.
      Their ability of managing their accounts during the previous year
  2. 2.

    What does the underlined sentence mean?

    1. A.
      Each child got an important job
    2. B.
      Each child got an interesting job
    3. C.
      The perfect student got the job of everyone’s preference．
    4. D.
      The most responsible student got the job of least interest
  3. 3.

    What is Rita’s attitude to her father’s suggestion?

    1. A.
      Negative
    2. B.
      Uncertain
    3. C.
      Totally positive
    4. D.
      Acceptive
  4. 4.

    We can infer that the man who made the declaration is a______.

    1. A.
      hunter
    2. B.
      director
    3. C.
      biologist
    4. D.
      principal
  5. 5.

    What would be the best title for the passage?

    1. A.
      Never complain about life
    2. B.
      Small tasks can lead to fortunes
    3. C.
      Men are best known by their friends
    4. D.
      Responsibility and intelligence bring good luck

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

Very far away from the city lived a poor farmer and his wife. In front of their house was a small dirt road. Very few cars drove on this road because it was so far from the city. On the dirt road, there was a big hole filled with water. The hole was very deep, but drivers on the road didn't know just how deep. Drivers always drove into the hole, but they never drove out.
One day, a man in a new car was driving down the road. He saw the hole with the water, but he didn't think it was very deep. He drove into the hole, but he couldn't drive out. The man saw the farmer on his tractor working in the field, and he signaled to the farmer. The farmer drove over to the man in the new car.
“Is there a problem?”asked the farmer.
“Yes,”said the man.“My car is stuck in this hole. Can you help me?”
“Maybe,”said the farmer.“But I'm very busy.”
“l(fā)f you help me, I'll pay you,” said the man.
“OK,”said the farmer. The farmer pulled the car out of the hole with his tractor, and the man paid him a lot of money. The man looked at the farmer and said,“You must. make a lot of money pulling cars out of this hole day and night.”
“Actually, no,”said the farmer.
“Why not?”asked the man.
“The hole is very deep, and a lot of people get stuck and ask for help. But I don't make money day and night because I don't pull cars out at night.”
“At night I'm busy filling the hole with water,” answered the farmer

  1. 1.

    The reason why few cars drove on the small dirt road was that ______.

    1. A.
      there was a big and deep hole
    2. B.
      the couple was not polite enough
    3. C.
      it had a long distance from the city
    4. D.
      drivers were afraid of being in the hole
  2. 2.

    According to paragraph 2, we can know about the man in a new car______.

    1. A.
      he just learned to drive a car
    2. B.
      it was the first time that he passed there
    3. C.
      he knew how deep the hole was
    4. D.
      he knew the farmer in the field
  3. 3.

    What did the farmer usually do at night?

    1. A.
      He helped pull out cars
    2. B.
      He made money
    3. C.
      He filled water to the hole
    4. D.
      He slept at home

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

A reader from Brazil recently wrote to us asking for some advice. He’s planning a trip to the United States, and wanted to know about the best places to travel in America. Today, we are going to give you some information which may help you when choosing your destination.
Each of the 50 states in America has interesting things to offer visitors, but some are more popular than others. Washington, D.C. is famous for its historical places, like the White House and the Lincoln Memorial. Visitors to Los Angeles, California can see the Hollywood Walk of Fame or shop the stores on Rodeo Drive where they may see a star or two. The Grand Canyon in Arizona appeals to hikers, climbers and nature lovers, as does Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
TripAdvisor is a website where people can write reviews about their travel experiences. Every year, TripAdvisor makes a list of the top 25 cities to visit in the United States. The results are based on the opinions of visitors to the website.
Brooke Ferencsik of TripAdvisor said the top picks on the list were not surprising. And it’s no secret why New York City was named the number one destination.
New York City is sometimes called “the city that never sleeps” because it can be very busy. It is an exciting place for many people because there is so much to do. But the city might be too busy for travelers looking for rest and calm. They might want something more like Myrtle Beach, in the state of South Carolina, which made it to number 21 on Trip Advisor’s list.
“A lot of people come to Myrtle Beach for great weather, it’s a wonderful family vacation spot, the beaches - got the wonderful Atlantic beaches there - there’s a lot of family-friendly parks and water parks.”
Many people take time off from their jobs in the summer to travel. Because there are many tourists visiting other places, June until August is known as “high season.” Traveling during the high season can be crowded. Hotels, restaurants, and transportation might also be very expensive.
If you want to save money on a trip, it is a good idea to plan to leave before or after the summer months. These times are known as “shoulder seasons” for travel.
“If you’re looking for value, try and think about traveling through the shoulder season if it’s possible - the shoulder season being the fall or the spring. The weather is still very good in some of these destinations, and you can get better prices.”
America’s major cities are still the most popular destinations for visitors. Ferencsik says this is because of the good quality of services they provide tourists.
“They do a great job of giving travelers what they want when they’re on vacation. I think they kind of cater to every type of traveler need. So whether you’re traveling alone, you’re traveling for business, you’re traveling with your family - whatever it is, those destinations are really tuned in to delivering amazing experiences and just a lot of different opportunities when you’re there.”

  1. 1.

    Lily has great interest in nature and American history. She can visit______.

    1. A.
      The Grand Canyon and Rodeo Drive
    2. B.
      California and Los Angeles
    3. C.
      White House and Arizona
    4. D.
      Washington,
    5. E.
      C and The Grand Canyon
  2. 2.

    Which of the following is NOT true about Myrtle Beach?

    1. A.
      People can enjoy a wonderful holiday with their family there
    2. B.
      It’s a place where people can have rest and calm
    3. C.
      It’s on the list of the top 25 cities to visit in the United States
    4. D.
      It’s in North Carolina with great weather that attracts tourists
  3. 3.

    Why does the author suggest traveling through the shoulder seasons?

    1. A.
      To enjoy good weather in spring and fall
    2. B.
      To have good quality of services
    3. C.
      To have better value of traveling
    4. D.
      To save money and energy
  4. 4.

    The author write this passage to______.

    1. A.
      give some information about the top 25 cities to visit in USA
    2. B.
      talk about some American popular places and advice on traveling
    3. C.
      advise tourists to visit big cities for their good service and opportunities
    4. D.
      give advice on saving money and time when traveling in America
  5. 5.

    This passage may probably be taken from______.

    1. A.
      a travel journal
    2. B.
      a magazine
    3. C.
      News Weekly
    4. D.
      a website

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

Mary Jean Price Walls graduated second in her class in 1950.She had high hopes when she applied to a local college,Southwest Missouri State College.But after sending off her application，she spent months waiting for a reply.It never came.
Worse than simply being denied admission(拒絕接收)，the school didn’t reply to her at all.It wasn’t a matter of her school records，but of her skin color：Wallsis African American，and in those days，that fact alone closed a lot of doors. “I was sad and I was hurt,”Walls told ABC News.“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”
Four years later，the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧視)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.She’d moved on with her life, becoming a wife and a mother，and working as an elevator operator.She retired last year，at the age of 77.
She stayed quiet about the unfairness she’d faced in Missouri State.Her son，Terry，went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.
Although it’s too late for Missouri State to change the past，the school is awarding Walls with an honorary degree(榮譽(yù)學(xué)位)from the school.While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree，it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years，and there’s not a single door closed to them anymore

  1. 1.

    Walls couldn’t enter the local college because________

    1. A.
      her examination performance is too bad
    2. B.
      girls were not allowed to go to college
    3. C.
      she was an AfricanAmerican student
    4. D.
      her parents had no enough money to support her
  2. 2.

    Before she was denied Walls thought that________

    1. A.
      her application would be accepted as others’
    2. B.
      it was hard to become a college student
    3. C.
      it was impossible for her to be admitted
    4. D.
      she could be the best student in her college
  3. 3.

    What can we know about Walls’s son?

    1. A.
      He helped his mother get the honorary degree
    2. B.
      He is a good student who teachers like best
    3. C.
      He was admitted by the college once his mother applied to
    4. D.
      He wants to be a government official who can help his mother
  4. 4.

    What can we infer from the passage?

    1. A.
      Walls did not fight for her right to education
    2. B.
      The college did not receive Walls’s application
    3. C.
      Walls got a good job after she received the degree
    4. D.
      The government gave Walls some money for the wrongs
  5. 5.

    Walls’s honorary degree suggests that________

    1. A.
      she could change her life with the degree
    2. B.
      her dream of going to college has come true
    3. C.
      she has been leading a happy life with her family
    4. D.
      great changes have taken place in Missouri State

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The 30-mile road that runs through the mountains of Willie Valley makes most drivers′ hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn’t expecting any trouble on the road last New Year’s Eve, when he set off for a ski trip to the Bear Mountains with nine-year-old daughter Mia, four-old son Baylor, and nine-year-old neighbor Kenya. Andersen had driven through the Valley hundreds of times over the years.
The weather was fine. But the higher they drove, the more slippery the road became. Rounding a sharp U-turn, Andersen saw a heavy truck off the road and immediately hit his brakes. In a minute, the car was going at 25 miles per hour down the mountain before falling down from a ten-foot dam into the extremely cold Logan River.
The crash had broken a few windows, and within seconds, the car was filled with water. “It was frightening that we were going fast into deep water,” remembers Andersen, a soft-spoken manager.
Having lost all sense of direction, Andersen began to search the freezing water for the kids. Mia had been right next to him in the front seat; now, in the blackness, he couldn’t find her. “I thought, if I don’t get out, maybe none of us are going to get out.” Andersen got out of his seat belt, swam through a broken window, and, deeply and quickly, breathed air at the surface. That’s when he saw a group of men, about ten in all, appear at the top of the dam. One after another, they rushed down into the water. Helping onto safety all the three children, they began to shout at the father, “Who else is in the car？”
Andersen says respectfully, “It was like the sight of angels.”

  1. 1.

    What might be the main cause of the car accident？

    1. A.
      The bad weather
    2. B.
      The high dam
    3. C.
      The sudden brake
    4. D.
      The heavy truck
  2. 2.

    Andersen didn’t expect any trouble on the road because _____

    1. A.
      he was familiar with the road
    2. B.
      he was good at driving
    3. C.
      his hands didn’t have sweat
    4. D.
      the weather was fine
  3. 3.

    What can be learned from the last paragraph？

    1. A.
      Andersen lost consciousness in the water
    2. B.
      Strangers helped Andersen out of the car
    3. C.
      Andersen liked Mia most among the children
    4. D.
      Strangers teamed together to save three children
  4. 4.

    The underlined sentence is to express Andersen’s feeling of being _____

    1. A.
      tired
    2. B.
      excited
    3. C.
      doubtful
    4. D.
      thankful
  5. 5.

    Which of the following can be the best title of the text？

    1. A.
      Stay calm when in trouble
    2. B.
      Drive rounding a U-turn
    3. C.
      Miracle rescue from a river
    4. D.
      Mystery of the Bear Mountains

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科目： 來(lái)源： 題型：閱讀理解

This dictionary tells you about English words and how to use them in reading, writing and speaking English. It not only gives the meaning of words, it can also help you with spelling, word-building, grammar and pronunciation.
To use your dictionary correctly, you need to understand how the dictionary works. At the front of the book, you will find some exercises to help you make the most use of your dictionary.
If you look up the word “colour”, you will find two spellings for this word. “Colour” is used in British English, while “color” is used in American English. When there are differences between British and American spelling, the dictionary shows it with the word “BrE” for British English and “AmE” for American English.
The dictionary also helps you pronounce words correctly. We use a special alphabet (特殊字母) to show pronunciation. If you turn to the inside back face, you will see all the phonetic letters (音標(biāo)) with some words to show you how they are pronounced. Just look at the inside back cover when you’re not sure how to say a word.
The most important reason for using a dictionary is to find out the meaning of a word—its definition
In this dictionary, the definitions have been written using only 2000 words. This means that the definitions of even the most difficult words are simply explained and easy to understand.
When a word has more than one meaning, read all the meanings until you find the one that correctly tells the use of the word you are looking for.
Most of the words in this dictionary can be used by people in all parts of the world

  1. 1.

    The AmE spelling of the Chinese word “顏色” in this dictionary is ________

    1. A.
      colour
    2. B.
      colar
    3. C.
      color
    4. D.
      corner
  2. 2.

    The phonetic alphabet help you ________ each word correctly

    1. A.
      understand
    2. B.
      write
    3. C.
      say
    4. D.
      know
  3. 3.

    The underlined word ‘definition’ means__________

    1. A.
      詞性
    2. B.
      詞條
    3. C.
      詞義
    4. D.
      詞庫(kù)
  4. 4.

    The dictionary explains ________

    1. A.
      some of the difficult words
    2. B.
      all the words in the dictionary in a simple way
    3. C.
      all easy words
    4. D.
      the words with two meanings

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It was an afternoon Truman would never forget．
Rayburn and his friend were talking in the office before Truman arrived. The telephone rang. It was a call from the White House asking whether Vice-President Truman had arrived yet. No, Rayburn replied. The caller asked to have him telephone the White House as soon as he arrived.
Truman entered a minute later. He immediately called the White House. As he talked, his face became white. He put down the phone and raced out of the door to his car.
Truman arrived at the White House within minutes. An assistant took him to the president’s private living area. Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, was waiting for him there. “Harry,” she said, “the president is dead.” Truman was shocked. He asked Mrs. Roosevelt if there was anything he could do to help her. But her reply made clear to him that his own life had suddenly changed. “Is there anything we can do for you ?” Mrs. Roosevelt asked the new president, “You are the one in trouble now.”
Truman had been a surprise choice for vice-president at the Democratic Party nominating convention in nineteen forty-four. Delegates considered several other candidates before they chose him as Roosevelt’s running mate. That was at a time when presidential candidates did not make their own choices for vice-president．
Harry Truman lacked the fame，the rich family and the strong speech-making skills of Franklin Roosevelt．He was a much simpler man．He grew up in the Midwestern state of Missouri．Truman only studied through high school but took some nighttime law school classes．He worked for many years as a farmer and a small businessman，but without much success．
Truman had long been interested in politics．When he was almost forty，he finally won several low-level positions in his home state．By nineteen thirty-four，he was popular enough in Missouri to be nominated and elected to the United States Senate. And he won re-election six years later．
Most Americans, however, knew little about Harry Truman when he became president．They knew he had close ties to the Democratic Party political machine in his home state．But they had also heard that he was a very honest man．They could see that Truman had strongly supported President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs．But they could not be sure what kind of president Truman would become．
At the center of all the action was Harry Truman．It was not long before he showed Americans and the world that he had the ability to be a good president．He was honest，strong and willing to make decisions．

  1. 1.

    When Mrs. Roosevelt said”You are the one in trouble now”，she really meant that______.

    1. A.
      Truman’s life had suddenly changed
    2. B.
      Truman was at the center of all the action
    3. C.
      Truman was a surprise choice for vice-president
    4. D.
      Truman had close ties to the Democratic Party
  2. 2.

    According to the passage，of Truman’s day，the president’s running mate was______.

    1. A.
      decided by delegates
    2. B.
      recommended by presidential candidates
    3. C.
      chosen by the Democratic Party
    4. D.
      elected by vice-president
  3. 3.

    Truman served as the U．S．Senator______.

    1. A.
      for ten years
    2. B.
      before he was forty
    3. C.
      before 1943
    4. D.
      for two terms
  4. 4.

    What’s the best title of the passage?

    1. A.
      An Unforgettable Afternoon
    2. B.
      Vital Telephone Call Makes a Difference
    3. C.
      Truman Makes His Decisions
    4. D.
      Roosevelt’s Death Makes Truman President

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When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍視) it like it’s the most precious thing in the world, because in some ways, it is.
Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.
And that’s only natural. Most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, and we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious（無(wú)意識(shí)的）reaction.
Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world. They make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.
By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.
Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, and make works of genius possible.
Think about how we learn：We don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting，or writing，or computer programming，or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually...then you construct a model in your mind...then you test it out by trying it in the real world...then you make mistakes...then you revise the model based on the results of your real world experimentation...and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from that success—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey is made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.
So if you value learning，if you value growing and improving，then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible

  1. 1.

    Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?

    1. A.
      Because mistakes make us suffer a lot
    2. B.
      Because it’s a natural part in our life
    3. C.
      Because we’ve been taught so from a young age
    4. D.
      Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers
  2. 2.

    According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?

    1. A.
      We should try to avoid making mistakes
    2. B.
      We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes
    3. C.
      We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn
    4. D.
      We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction
  3. 3.

    The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph 6 probably means ________

    1. A.
      a small child learning to walk
    2. B.
      a kindergarten child learning to draw
    3. C.
      a primary pupil learning to read
    4. D.
      a school teenager learning to write
  4. 4.

    We can learn from the passage that ________

    1. A.
      most of us can really grow from success
    2. B.
      growing and improving are based on mistakes
    3. C.
      we learn to make mistakes by trial and error
    4. D.
      we read about something and know how to do it right away
  5. 5.

    What is the best title of this passage?

    1. A.
      Value Mistakes
    2. B.
      Mistakes Make Things Possible
    3. C.
      Try to Avoid Mistakes
    4. D.
      Life is a Journey Full of Mistakes

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Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no?body is desperate enough to drink it.
　　There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex?perts usually put the minimum at fifty li?tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every?where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

    1. A.
      a village
    2. B.
      a small town
    3. C.
      the part of a town that lacks water badly
    4. D.
      an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings
  2. 2.

    Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

    1. A.
      there is no electricity
    2. B.
      the weather is bad
    3. C.
      there is no water
    4. D.
      people don’t want the dirty water
  3. 3.

    A person needs at least ______ litres of water a day

    1. A.
      forty
    2. B.
      four hundred
    3. C.
      a hundred
    4. D.
      fifty
  4. 4.

    The passage mainly tells us ______.

    1. A.
      how India government manages to solve the problem of water gets their water
    2. B.
      how women in Kesum Purbahari
    3. C.
      how much water a day a person deeds
    4. D.
      that India lacks water badly

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