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India"s mobile users totaled 563.73 million at the last count, enough to serve nearly half of the
country"s population.
But just 366 million people-around a third of the population-had access to proper sanitation (卫
生设施) in 2008, said the study published by the UN University, a UN thinktank.
"It is a tragic irony (讽刺) to think in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the
people own phones, so many people cannot afford the basic necessity and quality of a toilet, " said
UN Univers
ity director Zafar Adeel.Adeel heads the UN University"s Institute for Water, Environment and Health, based in the
Canadian city of Hamilton, which prepared the report.
Worldwide, an estimated 358 billion dollars is needed between now and 2015 to achieve the UN
Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the proportion of people with inadequate (不充分的)
sanitation from 2000 levels.
"Proper san
itation could do more to save lives, especially those of young people, improve healthand help pull India and other countries in similar circumstances out of poverty than any alternative
investment, " Adeel said.
Poor sanitation is a major contributor to waterborne diseases (水传播疾病), which in the past three
years alone killed an estimated 4.5 million children under the age of five worldwide, according to the
study.
The report gave a rough cost of 300 dollars to build a toilet, including labour, and materials.The
world could expect a return of up to 34 dollars for every dollar spent on sanitation through improved
productivity and reduced poverty and health costs, said Adeel.He said improving sanitation was an
economic and humanitarian opportunity of historic proportions.
B. about 1.2 billion
C. 900 million
D. 800 million
B. a mobile phone is more important than a toilet
C. it"s normal in Indian that they can"t attach importance to toilets
D. Zafar Adeel wasn"t satisfied with the sanitary situation in India
B. saving lives of young people
C. pulling developing countries out of poverty
D. improving the quality of mobile phone and getting more information
can get a return of________.
B. $10,000
C. $340,000
D. $10,200
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试题【阅读理解 Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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a semester in a foreign country now involves more than just sitting in classrooms and hanging out with
other American students. Instead, they are encouraged and sometimes required to be involved in the
local communities they are studying in.
"It"s absolutely important that they know something about how people in other parts of the world
live and think, and how they behave," says William Finlay, head of the sociology department at the
University of Georgia. In 2008, he co-founded a study abroad program with South Africa"s Stellenbosch University. It combines traditional academic in-class learning with community involvement.
"We"ve been working with a non-government organization in the township. Our students typically
either work with little children in day care centers or work in the library and teach very basic computer
skills to young children," says Finlay.
The three-week program proved to be an unforgettable experience for Hillary Kinsey. She says, "
It was interesting to learn the history of the area and then talk to these people and see what the social
dynamics were, and how certain groups felt about other groups."
When Hillary Kinsey returned home from South Africa, she and other students in the program
established a non-profit group. Kinsey says the group wants to contribute to advancing education and
development in South Africa. "One of the purposes of the group is that we hope to raise money and
awareness about the situation where those people live and help to promote any sort of educational
development that we can, " Kinsey added.
While many study abroad programs focus on helping Americans to learn foreign languages, others
take a more intensive approach. "In all of our locations, we place students with local roommates," says
Mark Lenhart, director of CEF Academic Programs, which sends more than a thousand students to
China, Korea and other countries each year.
He says American students benefit from such one-on-one interactions, in spite of the challenges they
face. Lenhart says, "They have to adjust to the local life. This will enable students to become more
employable when they graduate."
B. How to take part in study abroad programs.
C. Americans studying abroad pay more attention to working with local children.
D. Americans combine community involvement with study while studying abroad.
B. raising money for local people
C. helping to develop education in South Africa
D. raising people"s awareness of the local situation
abroad?
B. Surprised.
C. Impressed.
D. Unforgettable.
① making more friends
② being qualified for more jobs
③ learning a foreign language
④ having the ability to adjust to a new environment
B. ②③④
C. ①③④
D. ①②④
with the portable computer in business class. In the last 15 years, pilots have reported well over
100 incidents that could have been caused by electromagnetic interference. The source of this
interference remains unconfirmed, but increasingly, experts are pointing the blame at portable
electronic devices such as portable computers, radio and cassette players and mobile telephones.
RTCA, an organization which advises the av
iation(航空) industry, has recommended that allairlines ban such devices from being used during "critical" stages of flight, particularly take-off
and landing. Some experts have gone further, calling for a total ban during all flights. Currently,
rules on using these devices are left up to individual airlines. And although some airlines prohibit
passengers from using such equipment during take-off and landing, most are reluctant to enforce
a total ban, given that many passengers want to work during flights.
The difficulty is predicting how electromagnetic fields might affect an aircraft"s computers.
Experts know that portable devices emit radiation which affects those wavelengths which
aircraft use for navigation and communication. But, because they have not been able to reproduce
these effects in a laboratory, they have no way of knowing whether the interference might be
dangerous or not.
The fact that aircraft may be vulnerable (易受损的) to interference raises the risk that
terrorists may use radio system in order to damage navigation equipment. As worrying, though,
is the passenger who can"t hear the instructions to turn off his radio because the music"s too loud.
B. the defects of electronic crashes
C. a possible cause of aircraft crashes
D. effective safety measures for air flight
B. They may have taken place during take off and landing.
C. They were proved to have been caused by the passengers" portable computers.
D. They were suspected to have resulted from electromagnetic interference.
l ban on their passengers using electronic devices because _______.B. the harmful effect of
electromagnetic interference is yet to be proved.C. most passengers refuse to take a plane which bans the use of radio and cassette players.
D. they have other effective safety measures to fall back on.
computers?______
B. Because it remains a mystery what wavelengths are liable to be interfered with.
C. Because research scientists have not been to produce the same effects in labs.
D. Because experts lack adequate equipment to do such research.
B. has overestimated the danger of electromagnetic interference
C. hasn"t formed his own opinion on this
problemD. regards it as unreasonable to exercise a total ban during flight
Weiming, who has killed five and injured some others in Chengdu, Sichuan. However, such a case is not
rare.
Today, traffic accidents may have been regarded as a social problem. The car has killed and disabled more people in its brief history than any bomb or weapon ever invented. Much of the blood on the street
flows actually from rude behavior of drivers who refuse to respect the legal and moral rights of others. In
fact, the enemies of society on wheels are rather harmless but just ordinary people acting carelessly, you
might say. But it is a principle both of law and common morality that carelessness is no excuse when one"s actions could bring death or damage to others. A minority of the killers go even far beyond carelessness
that can be imagined.
Researchers have estimated that as many as 80 percent of all automobile accidents can be attributed to the psychological condition of the driver. Emotional upsets can change drivers" reactions, slow their
judgment, and make them blind to the dangers that might otherwise be evident. The experts warn that it is
vital for every driver to make a conscious effort to keep his/her emotions under control.
Yet the irresponsibility that accounts for much of the problem isn"t only put upon drivers. Street walkers regularly ignore or break traffic regulations. They are blamed in most vehiclewalker accidents, and many
cyclists even believe that they are not subject to the basic rules of the road.
Significant legal advances have been made towards safer driving in the past few years. Safety standards for vehicles have been raised both at the point of manufacture and through regular road inspections. In
addition, speed limits have been lowered. Due to these measures, the accident rate has decreased. But the accident experts still worry because there has been little or no improvement in the way drivers behave. The only real and lasting solution, say the experts, is to make people believe that driving is a skilled task
requiring constant care and concentration. Those who fail to do all these things present a threat to those
with whom they share the road.
B. people usually pay no attention to law and morality when driving
C. they have caused serious psychological problems among drivers
D. the car has killed and disabled more people than any weapon in history
B. Careless people walking in the street.
C. Irresponsible auto drivers.
D. Irresponsible auto manufacturers.
B. angry and disappointed
C. objective and concerned
D. anxious and annoyed
B. help protect street walkers from car accidents
C. discuss traffic problems and possible solutions
D. warn auto drivers to refuse drunk driving
surprising.Obviously there are some pretty big differences between our behavior and theirs
in this respect.Most Chinese children seem to get whatever they want,from ice creams,sweets
and toys to endless attention from the adults around them.Is this a sort of spoiling or love?I
wonder.
Most westerners would think it is a sort of spoiling rather than love.We think love means
educating your children and bringing them up to lead an independent life.That includes learning
to accept the fact that he can"t get everything he wants.As an adult,he will not always get the
quite expensive car he hunts for；she will not always manage to acquire the beautiful dress
she longs for.So we try to teach our children early to cope with the disappointment of not
getting what they want.
I find too much such kind of love for the children can actually spoil them.To my surprise,it
seems that the life of a Chinese child is rather hard.Without doubt,the child is the very center
of a whole circle of adults,but on the other hand he or she is also expected to start studying
according to adults" wishes.Many children of my son"s age take piano lessons,painting classes
and even English lessons.It looks as if Chinese adults think that just playing without learning
anything is a waste of time.So in this respect our children appear spoiled
,just because they are allowed to play.But without this sort of play how can Western children develop such free
and rich imaginations?In fact the connection between this imagination and the creativity is so
important in the children" s future life.
B．They can play whenever they want.
C．They need not behave themselves.
D．Their d
emands can always be satisfied.B．rather easy
C．independent
D．colorful
B．they can have the freedom to play
C．they can take piano lessons
D．they may have expensive toys
.B．How to develop kids" imagination
C．What is the real love for children
D．The imagination and creativity
of five young people now get on with their parents,which is the opposite of the popularly held
image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more
harmonious than it has ever been in the past."We were surprised by just how positive today"s
young people seem to be about their families,"said one member of the research team."They"re
expected to be rebellious (叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds；
they want a car and material goods,and they worry about whether school is serving them well.
There"s more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children,and children expect
to take part in the family decisionmaking process.They don"t want to rock the boat."
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to
treat their children as friends."My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen
to me," says 17yearold Daniel Lazall."I always tell them when I"m going out clubbing.As long as
they know what I"m doing,they"re fine with it." Susan Crome,who is now 21,agrees."Looking back
on the last 10 years,there was a lot of what you could call negotiation.For example,as long as I"d
done all my homework,I could go out on a Saturday night.But I think my grandparents were a lot
stricter with my parents than that."
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected.It is possible that the idea of
teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts.A researcher comments,"Our surprise that teenagers
say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history
when teenagers were regarded as different beings.But that idea of rebelling and breaking away
from their parents really happened during the 1960s when everyone rebelled.The normal situation
throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it
over."
B．They dislike living with their parents.
C．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D．They quarrel a lot with other family members.
B．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their family
D．make family decisions
B．are much stricter with their children
C．careless about their children"s life
D．give their children more freedom
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