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 pletely 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(测量) 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(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.
Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.
【小题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.【小题2】During the drought Tede had experienced, of his goats were killed.A．200B．193C．7D．6【小题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.【小题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.C
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(答案→)C
解析：作者在不久前去肯尼亚的托卡那湖地区时发现这个地方和多年前去的时候判若两地。究其原因作者发现这个地方正遭受着干旱的威。在文章最后作者指出要想帮助干旱地区的人们不能仅仅给他们提供粮食,而是要从根本上解决干旱问题。
【小题1】C细节理解题．根据文章第二段No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food,可知人们不再唱歌跳舞是由于他们没有粮食吃，经常挨饿造成的，答案选C．
【小题2】B细节理解题．由文章第三段Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left.可知他本来的２００只山羊现在还剩下7只,所以在干旱中死掉了193只,故答案选B.
【小题3】B推理判断题.根据文章第三段Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve和文章倒数第二段but people like Tede don’t want food aid.可以判断Tede Lokapelo能收到一些粮食救助,故B选项内容错误.
【小题4】D主旨大意题.文章先是叙述肯尼亚干旱贫穷的状况，然后在文章最后提出具体的解决方法，根据unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.可以判断作者的写作目的就是为了指出帮助干旱地区的人们并不是仅仅给他们提供粮食,而是要从根本上解决干旱问题，由此可知D为正确选项。