Question

Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.

As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.

I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.

Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(測量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(責任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.

Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饑荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基礎設施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.

1. Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?

A. Because they have no time.                    

B. Because they are tired of them.

C. Because they are always hungry.           

D. Because they have other interesting things to do.

2.During the drought Tede had experienced, ______of his goats were killed.

A. 200                B. 193                 C. 7                     D. 6

3. Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?

A. He was a farmer in Kenya.                                

B. He has never received any food aid.

C. His traditional way of life ha s been changed.

D. He found it hard to raise animals after the drought.

4.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To show drought is serious in the world.

B. To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺).

C. To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya.

D. To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.B

3.B

4.D

【解析】

試題分析：作者在不久前去肯尼亞的托卡那湖地區時發現這個地方和多年前去的時候判若兩地。究其原因作者發現這個地方正遭受著干旱的威。在文章最后作者指出要想幫助干旱地區的人們不能僅僅給他們提供糧食,而是要從根本上解決干旱問題。

1.C細節理解題．根據文章第二段No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food,可知人們不再唱歌跳舞是由于他們沒有糧食吃，經常挨餓造成的，答案選C．

2.B細節理解題．由文章第三段Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left.可知他本來的２００只山羊現在還剩下7只,所以在干旱中死掉了193只,故答案選B.

3.B推理判斷題.根據文章第三段Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve和文章倒數第二段but people like Tede don’t want food aid.可以判斷Tede Lokapelo能收到一些糧食救助,故B選項內容錯誤.

4.D主旨大意題.文章先是敘述肯尼亞干旱貧窮的狀況，然后在文章最后提出具體的解決方法，根據unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基礎設施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.可以判斷作者的寫作目的就是為了指出幫助干旱地區的人們并不是僅僅給他們提供糧食,而是要從根本上解決干旱問題，由此可知D為正確選項。

考點：考查社會生活類短文閱讀。