Question

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest people in the world, is now making efforts to reinvent （以新形式出現(xiàn)）the toilet. Gates has donated a big part of his wealth to charity. Now his charitable organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for future toilets that can improve the living conditions of millions of people.

The flush toilet （抽水馬桶）we use today was invented in 1775. While it works well in getting rid of our waste, it also uses a lot of water and needs a costly sewage system（下水道排污系統(tǒng)）. Besides, it’s not necessarily practical for the developing world. In some developing countries, lack of toilets leads to poor hygiene（衛(wèi)生），and that could kill people. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 million children under the age of five die each year because of hygiene problems.

Last year, the Gates Foundation gave money to eight universities around the world and asked them to start inventing the toilet of tomorrow: a toilet that uses little or no water is cheap and easy to fix, and is safe and hygienic.

At the “ Reinvent the Toilet Fair（展銷會）” competition recently held in Seattle, twenty-eight designs were displayed. The winners, from the California Institute of Technology（加州理工學(xué)院）, were awarded a $ 100,000 prize by the Gates Foundation.

“We couldn’t be happier with the response that we’ve gotten,” Bill Gates said at the event. Many of the new designs would not only greatly improve hygiene in the developing world, but also help change the dependence on traditional flush toilets in developed nations, he said.

1.What are disadvantages of the flush toilet we use today?

A. Wasting a lot of water and energy.

B. Washing a lot of water and needing a costly sewage system.

C. Spending too much time and energy.

D. Improving hygiene and environment.

2.How many designs were displayed at the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair”?

A. Eight. B. Eighty.

C. Eighteen. D. Twenty-eight.

3.What does the underlined word “that” refer to?

A. The flush toilet we use today.

B. The old toilet we used long ago.

C. Lack of toilets in some developing countries.

D. Lack of toilets leads to poor hygiene in some developing countries.

4.Which would be the best title for the passage?

A. Bill Gates of Microsoft B. Revolution （革命） of the toilet

C. Fair of the toilet D. Type of the toilet

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.D

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：短文大意：閱讀短文可知，這篇段文字主要講述了世界首富，微軟的創(chuàng)始人，比爾蓋茨為了改變傳統(tǒng)廁所的弊端，投資鼓勵研發(fā)新的節(jié)水馬桶的故事。

1.While it works well in getting rid of our waste, it also uses a lot of water and needs a costly sewage system（下水道排污系統(tǒng)）. 描述，可知抽水馬桶的不好之處是需要很多水和造價昂貴的污水處理系統(tǒng)。故選B。

2.At the “ Reinvent the Toilet Fair（展銷會）” competition recently held in Seattle, twenty-eight designs were displayed. 描述，可知這個展銷會上展出了28種設(shè)計。故選D。

3.In some developing countries, lack of toilets leads to poor hygiene（衛(wèi)生）描述，可知這個詞指代的是缺少在一些國家缺少廁所這個問題。故選D。

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