Water is the most mon substance(物质) found on the earth, but less than 1% of the earth’s water is suitable for drinking. More than 1,000,000,000 people around the world survive on just over 1 galon of water a day. Probebly more than 3,000,000,000 people may suffer from not having enough water by the year 2025. You are considered lucky if you live in a country where you can drink water out of your kitchen tap or bathroom tap. People in some countries have to pay for drinking water at home. So clean water is one of our most valuabe natural resources(资源).
In fact, peole waste so much clean water today. In factories lots of water is wasted. At home many people are not taking showers but still baths, and many are brushing their teeth with the tap turned on. Children are no longer taught how to save water….
You can save clean water in many ways. For example, if you keep gold fish, the tank water excellent for graden plants. And when you wash a milk bottle, pour the water on your house plants. Putting a brick or a water into your toilet tank many help use less water, saving many gallons over a long time.
Using rainwater is another simple way to save clean water. You can use rainwater to wash your hands after gardening, flush the toilet, and wash your car, your pet, your driveway when they are dirty.
For the same reason, people in Malaysia are encourageed to use rainwater. If one has a house with a small garden, he would buy a huge plastic tank to keep rainwater for their daily life.
【小题1】We can learn from the passage .A．when man can’t live without waterB．where there is no water resourceC．why there is less water on the earth D．how important it is to save water【小题2】According to the passage, one of the ways to save water is .A．to stop keeping gold fishB．to pay much for drinking waterC．to use it in a clever wayD．to educate those who waste water【小题3】The underlined word “flush” in Paragraph 4 means “ ”.A．clean something with waterB．pour water over somethingC．make somehting wet with waterD．get water out of someghing【小题4】People are ecouraged to use rainwater .A．so that is can make our life easierB．so that clean water can be kept for other usesC．because is it free and easy to getD．because there is no claen water left for themD
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(答案→)D
解析：文章大意：当今世界饮用水异常缺乏，然而浪费水的现象依然严重，我们要学会节约用水。有没有想过用雨水来干些啥？
【小题1】D 推理判断题。根据第一段细节及最后一句So clean water is one of our most valuabe natural resources.可以判断答案选D节约用水有多么重要。
【小题2】 C 推理判断题。 根据第三段举得节约用水的例子可以推知答案C、用聪明的方式来用水是节约用水的好方法。
【小题3】A 猜测词义题。 根据所在句子You can use rainwater to wash your hands after gardening, flush the toilet, and wash your car, your pet, your driveway when they are dirty.很容易猜出“flush”就是“wash”，所以答案选A、用水把东西弄干净。
【小题4】B推理判断题。根据倒数两段内容可推知，鼓励人们用雨水这样就可以节约干净的水为其他所用。所以选择答案B。