There is ______ water in the glass.

A. a lot

B. a number of

C. a few

D. a little

There is ________ water in the glass.

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阅读下面短文，从每小题A、B、C、D中选出能填入文章中空白处的最佳答案。
    Boys and girls!Do you want to know what a hobby means?OK,let me tell you.
    From Monday to Friday most people are busy working and studying,but in the evenings and weekends they are free and   1 themselves. Some watch television or go to the movies.Others 2  sports.This is decided by their own  3 .
    There are many different ways to spend our   4  time.
    Almost everyone has some  5  :it may be something from colleting stamps to   6  model planes. Some hobbies are very  7  ,but others don't cost anything at all. Some collections are worth  8  of money, others are valuable(有价值的)only to their owners.
    I know a man who has a coin which is worth several  9  dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare(罕见的)fifty-cent piece which  10  him$250!He was very happy about this collection and thought the price was all right. On the other hand, my youngest brother collects match boxes. He has almost 600of them, but I wonder   11  they are worth any money. However,   12  my brother they are quite valuable. 13 makes him happier than to find a neo match box for his collection.
    That's what a hobby means, I think. It is something we 14  to do in our free time just for the   15  of it. The value in dollars is not important, but the pleasure it gives us is.
1 A．love     B．work    C．enjoy     D．play
2 A．look like   B．take care of    C．think about    D．take part in
3 A．lives   B．jobs     C．interests    D．things  
4 A．working      B．free    C．own    D．whole
5 A．hobbies      B．things    C．jobs      D．ways
6 A．make      B．making     C．makes     D．made
7 A．interesting    B．exciting        C．cheap     D．expensive
8 A．a little       B．a few       C．a lot    D．a number
9 A．thousand     B．thousands     C．thousands of     D．thousand of
10A．paid     B．cost       C．took        D．spent
11A．that      B．if       C．what       D．why
12A．to   B．on       C．with    D．in
13A．Everything       B．Anything        C．Nothing       D．Something
14A．have    B．need      C．refuse    D．like
15A．money     B．work    C．fun         D．time

阅读理解

　　A four-year-old girl is lying in the arm of a doctor. She has just become motherless. A few minutes age, a big bombing(轰炸) happened near her home in the south of Iraq.

　　Every day we see pictures like this on our televisions. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and British soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad.

　　We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost the same size as their small bodies as they quickly left their homes in Baghdad.

　　All this shows that some of the young lives have been turned upside down by the war. And they show the terrible price being paid by Iraqi children.

　　In southern parts of the country, like the second largest city, Basra, the UN is working to repair the damage(毁坏) caused by the war.“we are working to provide clean water and get the electrical power to work again，”said Geoffrey Keele, a UN spokesman.

　　But little else can be done. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to try and let them escape the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed. Some diseases break out among the children, sometimes leading to death.

　　Nearly 50％ of the Iraqi population, which is over 20million, is under 15 years old. And 30％ of them are suffering(遭受) from malnutrition(营养) .

(1) From the first paragraph, we know that ________.

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A. the girl in the doctor's arm is dead

B. the girl's mother is looking for her

C. the girl's mother was killed during the bombing

D. the text tells us nothing about her mother

(2) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph?

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A. There are bombings every day in Iraq.

B. Children ask for water and food from the American and British soldiers.

C. Children with big bags are leaving their homes for Baghdad.

D. Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.

(3) The second sentence in paragraph 3 means ________

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A. the Iraqi children pay much money for what they need

B. the Iraqi children are suffering a lot in the war

C. some people sell children at a terrible price.

D. the young lives have been turned upside down.

(4) How much help is the UN giving to the Iraqi children?

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A. They are helping them return to school.

B. They are giving them enough food and drinks.

C. They can do only a little.

D. They can do nothing.

(5) The number of Iraqi children in malnutrition is about ________.

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