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14.Most mornings,the line begins to form at dawn:scores of silent women with babies on their backs,buckets balanced on their heads,and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug.On good days,they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari,a  slumon the southern edge of New Delhi.On bad days,when there is no electricity for the pumps,the tankers don't come at all."That water kills people,"a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning,pointing to a row of pails filled with thick,caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid."Whoever drinks it will die."The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhood.Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children,but nobody is desperate enough to drink it.
There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day,but experts usually put the minimum at fifty liters.The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty.Most people drink two or three liters-less than it takes to wash a toilet.The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing.Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred liters of water each day,more than any other people on earth.Most Europeans use less than half that.The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred liters that day-two or three buckets'worth.Shoba has a husband and five children,and that much water doesn't go far in a family of seven,particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon.She often makes up the difference with bottled water,which costs more than water delivered any other way.Sometimes she just buys milk; it's cheaper.Like the poorest people everywhere,the people of New Delhi's slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.
28.The underlined word"slum"most likely meansC.
A.a village
B.a small town
C.a poor area of a town with badly-built,over-crowded buildings
D.the part of a town that lacks water
29.Sometimes the water tanker doesn't come becauseB.
A.the weather is bad   
B.there is no electricity
C.there is no water     
D.people don't want the dirty water
30.Which of the following statements is wrong?A
A.water is the biggest expense for people in New Delhi's slums
B.Shoba has a family of seven people
C.in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water
D.Americans uses the largest amount of water each day
31.The passage mainly tells usC.
A.how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water
B.how much water a day a person deeds
C.that India lacks water badly
D.how India government manages to solve the problem of water.

分析 本文主要描述印度缺少水的现象.人们的食用水和使用水都是一个极大的问题,不是等送水车的到来就是要到很远的地方去取水.

解答 28.C 词义猜测题.根据第一段的第二句 On good days,they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari,a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi.可知,在运气好的时候,人们能够等到 送水车穿过脏的小道来 Kesum Purbahari送水,而Kesum Purbahari是一个及其贫穷的地方,结合选项,故slum指的是"贫穷地区".故选
29.B 细节理解题.根据第一段的On bad days,when there is no electricity for the pumps,the tankers don't come at all.送水车不来,则人们就没水喝了,可知答案为B
30.A 细节理解题.根据第二段的Like the poorest people everywhere,the people of New Delhi's slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes可知新德里贫困地区的人会花很多钱买水,但并没有说买水是最大的花销.
31.C 主旨大意题.通读全文可知,本文主要描述印度缺少水的现象.结合选项,故选C

点评 本文是一个新闻报道类阅读,题目涉及多道细节理解题,做题时结合原文和题目有针对性的找出相关语句进行仔细分析,结合选项选出正确答案.推理判断题也是要在抓住关键句子的基础上合理的分析才能得出正确答案,切忌胡乱猜测,一定要做到有理有据.

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