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【題目】 (C)

Pollution inside homes and other buildings kills more than 4 million people each year. Many people die as a result of breathing smoke or from cooking over wood-powered or coal-powered stoves.

One way to reduce the number of deaths is through cooking equipment powered by the sun. Crosby Menzies, a solar power expert in a South African company, described his latest solar cooker called the "Sol-4". "It is four square meters of mirrors, six to eight meters in length. It is quite a large cooker. "

The "Sol-4" works by reflecting (反射) light from the sun off large mirrors. The mirrors direct (把……對準) the light at a cooking pan. Then the light heats the pan with solar energy. Within two minutes, the pan is hot enough to cook sausages and onions. In just four minutes, water can be boiled. That is as fast as cooking with natural gas or electricity.

The cooker is also much "friendlier" than other models because people do not have to stand in the sun to use it. And people can prepare meals without having to collect firewood or spend money on coal. Such individuals （人）would be less likely to have breathing illnesses from harmful smoke.

At present, the cooker only works when the sun is shining. But engineers are working on a way to make it work without sunlight.

Each cooker costs about $2,000, which is a large amount of money for most Africans. To solve that problem. Crosby Menzies has created a non-governmental organization called Solar Cookers for Africa. It plans to raise money through donations to provide poor people with solar cooking equipment.

【1】This passage is mainly about _______ .

A. solar cookerB. smoke pollutionC. solar power expertsD. breathing illnesses

【2】The "Sol-4" is mainly used to _______ .

A. shorten the time of cooking

B. reduce the cost of making cookers

C. raise money through donations to help African people

D. reduce the number of deaths caused by harmful smoke

【3】Which of the following about the "Sol-4" is TRUE?

A. It is six to eight square meters of mirrors.

B. It can work in any weather condition now.

C. It can also heat the pan by lighting firewood.

D. It is more environment-friendly than other cookers.

【4】From the passage, we can infer that _______ .

A. the "Sol-4" will be designed in a smaller size

B. more Africans can use the solar cookers in the future

C. the "Sol-4" is the first product of the South African company

D. the African government will provide poor people with solar cookers

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

本文主要內(nèi)容：房屋和其他建筑物的污染每年造成超過400萬人死亡，許多人因吸入煙或用煤作動力的爐子做飯而死亡．減少死亡人數(shù)的一個方法是通過太陽能烹飪設(shè)備，一個南非公司的太陽能專家Crosby Menzies描述了他最新的太陽能炊具，稱為“Sol.4”，“它是四平方米的鏡子，長度六到八米，相當于一個大的灶具．”“Sol.4”由大鏡子反射的太陽光運作的．鏡子直接把光對準炒菜的鍋，然后光用太陽能加熱鍋．兩分鐘后，鍋熱得能夠烤香腸和洋蔥．在短短的四分鐘，水可以煮沸，和用天然氣或電做飯一樣快．鍋也比其他灶具更“友好”，因為人們不必站在太陽下使用它，人們可以不必收集柴火或花錢買煤做飯．這樣的人們不太可能有來自于有害煙霧引起的呼吸�。�目前，炊具只是在陽光燦爛的時候工作，但工程師們正在努力工作，使它在沒有陽光的情況下也能工作．每個鍋的成本約為2000美元，這是大多數(shù)非洲人一大筆錢．為了解決這個問題，Crosby Menzies已建立一個叫做非洲太陽能炊具的非政府組織．它計劃籌集捐贈的資金去提供太陽能烹飪設(shè)備給窮人．

【1】題意：這篇文章主要是關(guān)于_________________。考查主旨大意題．A. solar cooker太陽灶；B. smoke pollution煙污染； C. solar power experts 太陽能專家； D. breathing呼吸。本文主要介紹一個南非公司的太陽能專家發(fā)明的一種新型的太陽能灶具“Sol.4”，它能夠減少污染對身體的傷害。根據(jù)本文主要的內(nèi)容可知選A。

【2】題意：“sol-4”主要是用來__________________。考查細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)Many people die as a result of breathing smoke or from cooking over wood﹣powered of coal﹣powered stoves． One way to reduce the number of deaths is through cooking equipment powered by the sun．Crosby Menzies，a solar power expert in a South African company，described his latest solar cooker called the“Sol.4”可知Sol﹣4主要是用于減少因有害氣體引起的死亡，故答案是D．

【3】題意：關(guān)于“sol-4”以下哪一個是正確的？考查細節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)The cooker is also much“friendlier”than other models because people do not have to stand in the sun to use it．And people can prepare meals without having to collect firewood or spend money on coal．Suchindividualswould be less likely to have breathing illnesses from harmful smoke可知這種新灶具比其他灶具更環(huán)保，故選D．

【4】題意：從本文我們可以推斷出___________________。考查推理判斷題．根據(jù)To solve that problem，Crosby Menzies has crated a non﹣governmental organization called solar Cookers for Africa．It plans to raise money through donations to provide poor people with solar cooking equipment．可以推斷將來越來越多的非洲人會用上太陽能灶，故答案是B．