Question

Napoga Gurigo，a 12-year-old girl，lives in a village in Ghana. It is   1  for her family to get clean drinking water. The nearest place to get water is a muddy （混濁的） water hole half a kilometer away from her   2 . Animals and villagers use it alike. Each morning, Napoga leaves home at half past five to collect water for her family. Sometimes it   3  a few hours to get enough water. Napoga has no time to go to school for learning. In the neighboring areas, many boys and girls   4  Napoga. They can't keep strong and   5  just because they have not enough drinking water.
In fact, 70% of Earth's surface is water. But most of   6  is sea water. We can't use salty water in our daily life. Fresh water is what we __7__ drink, take showers and cook food. And fresh water covers only 1 percent of Earth's surface. In some areas people try to make deep wells （水井） to get water from   8 . But there still   9  enough for farming. Scientists say that 10  30 years, more people in the world will face all kinds of water problems than now. So we must do something to take care of our water resources (資源).

【小題1】

A．easy B．hard C．fun D．impossible

【小題2】

A．school B．city C．country D．home

【小題3】

A．spends B．costs C．pays D．takes

【小題4】

A．look like B．a(chǎn)re like C．feel like D．sound like

【小題5】

A．healthy B．strong C．heavy D．clean

【小題6】

A．them B．those C．that D．these

【小題7】

A．used to B．a(chǎn)re used to C．use to D．a(chǎn)re used

【小題8】

A．underground B．subway C．rivers D．the sea

【小題9】

A．haven't B．isn't C．a(chǎn)ren't D．hasn't

【小題10】

A．in B．a(chǎn)fter C．before D．for

Answer 1

【小題1】B
【小題2】D
【小題3】D
【小題4】B
【小題5】A
【小題6】C
【小題7】C
【小題8】A
【小題9】B
【小題10】A解析:

【小題1】考查形容詞。結合下文可知對她家人來說取水是不容易的。
【小題2】考查名詞。離她家半公里的地方。
【小題3】考查動詞。It takes sb. sometime to do sth某人花多少時間做某事。
【小題4】考查動詞短語。be like sb 和某人一樣。
【小題5】考查形容詞。沒有足夠水喝，自然不健康。
【小題6】考查代詞。此處指的是water，不可數(shù)名詞，所以用that。
【小題7】考查動詞。淡水是我們用來喝，洗澡和做飯的。use…to do sth 使用……做什么。
【小題8】考查名詞。挖井自然是從地下取水。
【小題9】考查動詞。但仍然沒有足夠的農(nóng)業(yè)用水。There be sth 有……。
【小題10】考查介詞。結合句末的now可知此處指的是30年之后。