2019 2020年九年级英语下册版块复习阅读专练课件外研版.ppt

A (2015 ， 湖北襄阳 ) Imagine one day ， the water taps( 水龙头 ) in your house stop running. You have water from shops. And still there isnt enough for everyone. Your mother has to s familys shower water to do other things. Would you be able to stand that kind of life Probably not. But thats what kids in Yemen are experiencing. Experts said Ye going to be the first country in the world to run out of water. According to a repo capital ， Sana ， will run out of drinking water as early as 2025. Because of the shortage ， the government often cuts the water supply( 供应 ) ． Ha an 18- year- old from Lahej ， told Times: “ In a good week well have a water su week.But then the following week there will be water only for a day or two. ” Hannan said only rich people have enough water to use. They can buy water fr the shops or from the water trucks. Private companies own the trucks. They tra around the city every day to sell water — at very high prices. “ A lot of people c afford it ， ” she said. The average( 平均 ) person in Yemen uses 100 to 200 cubic( 立方 ) meters of wa per year. That is far below the international water poverty( 贫困 ) line of 1 ， 0 cubic meters. The government is thinking of making use of seawater. But it will cost a lot an may not happen soon enough to help the people of Yemen. 1 ． ________is the name of the capital city of Yemen. A ． Sana B ． Lahej C ． Hannan D ． Times 2 ． A report shows that Sana will have ________as early as 2025. A ． enough drinking water to use B ． no drinking water to use C ． no private companies D ． more water pollution 3 ． What does the underlined word “ shortage ” in the third paragraph m Chinese? A ． 充足 B ．短缺 C ．干旱 D ．需求 B A B 4 ． We can infer( 推断 ) from the passage that________. A ． the poor dont have to worry about the water supply B ． the 18- year- old boy is from a poor family C ． private companies make a lo