Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chooses to live alone far away from people in Blize. Her home is at Gales Point, a small village which can be reached only by sea or air: after a 500-meter walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses. They are so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a few people know Dorothea is there.

    She lives happily growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chicken. About once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food and letters from her sisters and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a worker who lives not far will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.

At night she lies in her small sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table and one of the hens in a corner of the room and listens for hours to some news over the radio. Sometimes she feels lonely but most of the time the radio is her friend.

But recently the very things she tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earthmoving machines that are not many miles away. The new north-south road cuts through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more and more people know I’m here,” she said. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”

1．We can infer that Dorothea lives a _____ life.

    A．rich and happy                            B. simple and easy   

C. hard but happy                            D. rich but uneasy

2. Dorothea spends a lot of her time ____.

    A. cutting wood                              B. building the road   

C. listening to the radio                    D. talking with the soldiers

3. What makes Dorothea feel more and more uncomfortable?

    A. The peace of the forest has been spoiled.

    B. Her food is getting shorter and shorter.

    C. Something is wrong with her eyes.

    D. She is becoming older and older.

4. The writer wrote this article mainly to tell people _____.

    A. how Dorothea lives alone in a lonely place

    B. why Dorothea lives in such a lonely place

    C. that Dorothea is a strange old woman

    D. what kind of place Dorothea lives in

Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize — a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.

She lives happily and totally alone – growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.

At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.

But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”

1.Dorothea’s small houses ________.    

A．are entirely surrounded by trees

B．have always been her home

C．were built for just a few people

D．are in a county with the same population as Wales

2.Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.

A．she doesn’t like living near people	B．she is too old to move
C．machines destroyed her home	D．there’s nowhere else for her to live

3. Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.

A．her sister

B．some animals

C．friends from Canada

D．a postman

4.Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.

A．growing all the food she needs	B．cutting down trees
C．listening to the radio	D．studying languages

 

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　　In the past,man did not have to think about the protection of his environment. There were few people on the earth,and natural resources,seemed to be __1__.

　　Today things are __2__,the world has become too __1__ We are using up our natural resources too quickly and at the same time we are __4__ our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this,human life on the earth __5__ survive.

　　Everyone __6__ today that if too many fishes are taken from the sea,there will soon be none left. Yet,with modern fishing __7__,more and more fishes are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down,__8__ will disappear and nothing will grow on the land．Yet,we __9__ to use bigger and more powerful machines to __10__ more and more trees. 

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　　If we eat more vegetables and less __16__,there will be more food available for everyone Land that is used to grow crops __17__ five times more people than land where animals are kept.

　　Our natural resources will __18__ longer if we learn to recycle them.

　　The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth __19__. Finally,if we educate people to think about the problems,we shall have a better and cleaner __20__ in the future.

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　　Today things are __2__,the world has become too __1__ We are using up our natural resources too quickly and at the same time we are __4__ our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this,human life on the earth __5__ survive.

　　Everyone __6__ today that if too many fishes are taken from the sea,there will soon be none left. Yet,with modern fishing __7__,more and more fishes are caught. We know that if too many trees are cut down,__8__ will disappear and nothing will grow on the land．Yet,we __9__ to use bigger and more powerful machines to __10__ more and more trees. 

    We realize that if rivers are polluted with waste products from factories,fish will die. __11__,in most countries wastes are __12__ put into rivers or into the sea,and there are __13__ laws to stop this. We know,too,that if the __14__ of the world continues to rise at the present rate in a few years there will not be enough __15__ What can we do to solve these problems?

　　If we eat more vegetables and less __16__,there will be more food available for everyone Land that is used to grow crops __17__ five times more people than land where animals are kept.

　　Our natural resources will __18__ longer if we learn to recycle them.

　　The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth __19__. Finally,if we educate people to think about the problems,we shall have a better and cleaner __20__ in the future.

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