Question

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       阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给出的A、B、C三个选项中 选出最佳选项：

       What can people do when natural disasters (灾难）happen? Can we stop them? No, we can't. The only thing we can do is to  1   after the disasters.

       Last year I met Mr. Flood. It started raining and   2   raining almost a month: the water on the streets got higher and higher every day. We used   3   instead of cars. We lost lots of things, including our businesses, our jobs and our homes.

       Schools   4   and farms were destroyed. We ran out of food and clean water. In some places the water was higher than the buildings. I felt like we lived in a(n)  5 _ world.

       Because of the flood, lots of  6  broke out. Because of the dead animals, some people  7  . The soil and other things made the water become very, very 8 _. That was in summer time, so though it was raining, the  9  was still high. The hot weather and really dirty water  10  the air very bad. Hospitals didn't have enough rooms for  11  .

       When the flood was over, I looked around my city. The word “ 12 ” can describe the situation. Everything was destroyed and lots of people were sick, but we were very  13  .1 think.

       We had to 14  our city, take care of the sick people, and start our schools again. I just 15 that one day, people can stop the natural disasters whenever they happen. After all, people are very clever.

1.    A. wake up       B. make up         C. clean up
2.    A. kept          B. finished          C. stopped
3.    A. bikes         B. trains            C. boats
4.    A. started        B. closed           C. opened

5.    A. water.        B. fire              C. ice
6.    A. happiness     B. illnesses          C. hardness
7.    A. ran          B. slept             C. died
8.    A. dirty         B. clean             C. clear
9.    A. temperature   B. weather           C. water
10.  A. had.         B. made             C. changed
11.  A. nurses       B. doctors            C. patients

12.  A. sad          B. beautiful          C. good
13.  A. weak        B. strong            C. happy
14.  A. rebuild       B. return            C. remain
15.  A, want         B. hope             C. see

Answer 1

1C 2A 3C 4B 5A 6B 7C 8A 9A 10B 11C 12A 13B 14A 15B