Question

Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate. But according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty. Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute in Washington spent a year visiting twenty-five countries south of the Sahara. In Nairobi, Kenya, for example, Ms Nierenberg found women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlement. She says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus. They use the money to send their children to school.

Last year, about 925,000,000 people worldwide did not get enough to eat. Half of all people in the world now live in and around cities. Researchers like Ms Nierenberg are looking increasingly at creative ideas to feed those who don’t have enough good food to eat. She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.

Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market. There are many reasons why food gets wasted. Farmers are without electricity and cold storage. They lack good seeds and fertilizer. They lack good roads. Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty. Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests. She says, “Given all that we invest in producing food in the first place, we need to devote the same amount of attention to making sure that it is not wasted.”

In Nigeria, village processing centers are helping farmers reduce their losses and earn more money. They centers process cassava, a root vegetable, into basic food products. In Uganda, the Worldwatch report says some schools are teaching children how to grow local kinds of crops. And in South Africa and Kenya the report praises the breeding(培育) of local kinds of livestock. These animals may produce less milk or meat than other breeds, but they can survive heat and drought conditions.

1.We could learn from the new report in Para.1 that         .

A.sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate

B.African farmers have ideas to help fighting hunger and poverty

C.women farmers grow vegetables in the Kibera settlement

D.women farmers grow vegetables to send their children to school.

2.The underlined word “surplus” in Para.1 is closest in meaning to         .

A. private vegetables                        B. side products

C. leftover vegetables                      D. home-made products

3.Ms Nierenberg suggests that         .

A.the women spend more money on education instead of farming

B.more and more African people should live in and around cities

C.researchers find creative ideas to feed the people suffering hunger

D.people in the Western world do the same as the Africans have done

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Farmers in developing world often lose some of their harvest

B.Small farmers in developing countries often suffer poverty.

C.Farmers should pay more attention to protecting their harvest

D.Attention should be paid to saving food instead of producing food

5.The best title of this passage should be         .

A.A New Report About African Farmers Fighting Hunger

B.Creative Ideas to Feed Those Who Have No Enough Food

C.Looking to Africa for Ideas About How to Fight Hunger

D.Animals That Can Survive Heat and Drought Conditions

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.D

5.C

【解析】

试题解析：文章叙述的是：面对撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲的饥饿状况，根据一项调查而展示给大家的非洲农民妇女以及尼日利亚对抗饥饿和贫困的措施，值得人们学习和借鉴。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段的内容，ACD都有但不是根据新的报告了解的内容，所以都不对，根据according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty.根据一项新的报告， 非洲的农民有可以帮助世界应对饥饿和贫困的做法，所以B正确。

2.  词义猜测题。 A. private vegetables私人蔬菜  B. side products配菜C. leftover vegetables剩余的蔬菜D. home-made products国货，根据第一段women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlementShe says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus.，她们种蔬菜，除了解决自己的温饱还卖剩余的蔬菜，所以C正确。

3.细节理解题。根据第二段最后两句话She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.她说有许多经验可以从非洲学习，而且他们所做的在其他发展中国家也可以做，没得出D正确。

4.细节理解题。用排除法，根据第三段第一句话Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market，得出A，根据第三段第四句话Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty.，得出B，根据第三段最后一句话Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests.得出C，而D与C相反，所以D不符合事实，所以选D。

5.主旨大意题。通读全文知道，通过一项新的调查引出非洲一系列对抗饥饿和贫困的做法，所以短文的最好题目应该是C，其他选项均不符合。

考点：考查社会生活类短文阅读。