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Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate. But according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty. Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute in Washington spent a year visiting twenty-five countries south of the Sahara. In Nairobi, Kenya, for example, Ms Nierenberg found women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlement. She says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus. They use the money to send their children to school.

Last year, about 925,000,000 people worldwide did not get enough to eat. Half of all people in the world now live in and around cities. Researchers like Ms Nierenberg are looking increasingly at creative ideas to feed those who don’t have enough good food to eat. She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.

Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market. There are many reasons why food gets wasted. Farmers are without electricity and cold storage. They lack good seeds and fertilizer. They lack good roads. Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty. Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests. She says, “Given all that we invest in producing food in the first place, we need to devote the same amount of attention to making sure that it is not wasted.”

In Nigeria, village processing centers are helping farmers reduce their losses and earn more money. They centers process cassava, a root vegetable, into basic food products. In Uganda, the Worldwatch report says some schools are teaching children how to grow local kinds of crops. And in South Africa and Kenya the report praises the breeding(培育) of local kinds of livestock. These animals may produce less milk or meat than other breeds, but they can survive heat and drought conditions.

1.We could learn from the new report in Para.1 that         .

A.sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate

B.African farmers have ideas to help fighting hunger and poverty

C.women farmers grow vegetables in the Kibera settlement

D.women farmers grow vegetables to send their children to school.

2.The underlined word “surplus” in Para.1 is closest in meaning to         .

A. private vegetables                        B. side products

C. leftover vegetables                      D. home-made products

3.Ms Nierenberg suggests that         .

A.the women spend more money on education instead of farming

B.more and more African people should live in and around cities

C.researchers find creative ideas to feed the people suffering hunger

D.people in the Western world do the same as the Africans have done

4.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Farmers in developing world often lose some of their harvest

B.Small farmers in developing countries often suffer poverty.

C.Farmers should pay more attention to protecting their harvest

D.Attention should be paid to saving food instead of producing food

5.The best title of this passage should be         .

A.A New Report About African Farmers Fighting Hunger

B.Creative Ideas to Feed Those Who Have No Enough Food

C.Looking to Africa for Ideas About How to Fight Hunger

D.Animals That Can Survive Heat and Drought Conditions

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.D

5.C

【解析】

試題解析：文章敘述的是：面對撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲的饑餓狀況，根據一項調查而展示給大家的非洲農民婦女以及尼日利亞對抗饑餓和貧困的措施，值得人們學習和借鑒。

1.細節理解題。根據第一段的內容，ACD都有但不是根據新的報告了解的內容，所以都不對，根據according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty.根據一項新的報告， 非洲的農民有可以幫助世界應對饑餓和貧困的做法，所以B正確。

2.  詞義猜測題。 A. private vegetables私人蔬菜  B. side products配菜C. leftover vegetables剩余的蔬菜D. home-made products國貨，根據第一段women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlementShe says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus.，她們種蔬菜，除了解決自己的溫飽還賣剩余的蔬菜，所以C正確。

3.細節理解題。根據第二段最后兩句話She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.她說有許多經驗可以從非洲學習，而且他們所做的在其他發展中國家也可以做，沒得出D正確。

4.細節理解題。用排除法，根據第三段第一句話Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market，得出A，根據第三段第四句話Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty.，得出B，根據第三段最后一句話Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests.得出C，而D與C相反，所以D不符合事實，所以選D。

5.主旨大意題。通讀全文知道，通過一項新的調查引出非洲一系列對抗饑餓和貧困的做法，所以短文的最好題目應該是C，其他選項均不符合。

考點：考查社會生活類短文閱讀。