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Read the following magazine article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. The Burden of Thirst 0
Read the following magazine article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page. The Burden of Thirst 0
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Read the following magazine article and answer questions 9-18 on the next page.
The Burden of Thirst
0. AylitoBinayo’s feet know the mountain. Even at four in the morning, she can rundown the rocks to the river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to her village with a container of water on her back. She has made this journey three times a day since she was a small child. So has every other woman in her village of Foro, in the Konso district of south-western Ethiopia in Africa.
1. In developed parts of the world, people turn on a tap and out pours abundant, clean water. Yet nearly 900 million people in the world have no access to clean water. Furthermore, 2.5 billion people have no safe way to get rid of human waste. Polluted water and lack of proper hygiene cause disease and kill 3.3 million people around the world annually, most of them children.
2. Bringing clean water close to villagers’ homes is the key to the problem. Communities where clean water becomes accessible and plentiful are transformed. All the hours previously spent hauling water can be used to cultivate more crops, raise more animals or even start a business. Families spend less time sick or caring for family members who are unwell. Most important, not having to collect water means girls can go to school and get jobs. The need to fetch water for the family, or to take care of younger siblings while their mother goes, usually prevents them ever having this experience.
3. But the challenges of bringing water to remote villages like those in Konso are overwhelming. Locating water underground and then reaching it by means of deep wells requires geological expertise and expensive, heavy machines. Abandoned wells and water projects litter the villages of Konso. In similar villages around the developing world, the biggest problem with water schemes is that about half of them break down soon after the groups that built them move on. Sometimes technology is used that can’t be repaired locally, or spare parts are available only in the capital.
4. Today, a UK-based international non-profit organisation called Water Aid is tackling the job of bringing water to the most remote villages of Konso. Their approach combines technologies proven to last - such as building a sand dam to capture and filter rainwater that would otherwise drain away. But the real innovation is that Water Aid believes technology is only part of the solution. Just as important is involving the local community in designing, building and maintaining new water projects.
5. The people of Konso, who grow their crops on terraces they have dug into the sides of mountains, are famous for hard work. In the village of Orbesho, residents even constructed a road themselves so that drilling machinery could come in. Last summer, their pump, installed by the river, was being motorised to push its water to a newly built reservoir on top of a nearby mountain. From there, gravity will carry it down in pipes to villages on the other side of the mountain. Residents of those villages have each given some money to help fund the project. They have made concrete and collected stones for the structures. Now they are digging trenches to lay pipes. If all goes well, AylitoBinayo will have a tap with safe water just a three-minute walk from her front door.
Questions 9-13(10 marks)
For questions 9-13, choose from the list A~G which best summarizes each part of the article.
For each numbered paragraph(1~5), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet.
Do not mark any letter twice.
A. Failure of some projects
B. A possible success
C. Anew management style
D. Some relevant statistics
E. A regular trip for some people
F. Treatment for disease
G. Water in people’s lives
Paragraph 5:______
选项
答案
C
解析
第5段主要谈WaterAid这个组织不同以往的创新方法模式,因此C选项最贴切。
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