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 （混浊的） 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 (资源).

【小题1】

A．easy B．hard C．fun D．impossible

【小题2】

A．school B．city C．country D．home

【小题3】

A．spends B．costs C．pays D．takes

【小题4】

A．look like B．are like C．feel like D．sound like

【小题5】

A．healthy B．strong C．heavy D．clean

【小题6】

A．them B．those C．that D．these

【小题7】

A．used to B．are used to C．use to D．are used

【小题8】

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

【小题9】

A．haven't B．isn't C．aren't D．hasn't

【小题10】

A．in B．after C．before D．for

Answer 1

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

【小题1】考查形容词。结合下文可知对她家人来说取水是不容易的。
【小题2】考查名词。离她家半公里的地方。
【小题3】考查动词。It takes sb. sometime to do sth某人花多少时间做某事。
【小题4】考查动词短语。be like sb 和某人一样。
【小题5】考查形容词。没有足够水喝，自然不健康。
【小题6】考查代词。此处指的是water，不可数名词，所以用that。
【小题7】考查动词。淡水是我们用来喝，洗澡和做饭的。use…to do sth 使用……做什么。
【小题8】考查名词。挖井自然是从地下取水。
【小题9】考查动词。但仍然没有足够的农业用水。There be sth 有……。
【小题10】考查介词。结合句末的now可知此处指的是30年之后。