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The World Bank says there are about 650 million mobile phone users in African countries in the south of the Sahara Desert. That is greater than the number of users in the United States and European Union.

Samia Melhem works for the World Bank to increase information tech?nologies in Africa. She says mobile phones are the fastest growing technolo?gy in Africa. " This technology is faster than TV and surely faster than electricity. More people have access to mobile phones and Internet today in Africa than they have access to clean water. So we can say that this has been the most important revolution(改革)in terms of changing the African landscape and how people live their daily life.，，

CNN television recently named seven ways of life which have been changed because of mobile phones. They include political activism, educa?tion, entertainment, disaster management, agriculture and health. Another area is banking. Reports say half or more of the adults in Gabon, Kenya and Sudan use mobile money. Rene Mendy sells goods in the streets of Dakar, Senegal. But he doesn't have enough money to open a bank account. Now he uses a mobile phone banking service called Orange Money. With his tele?phone, he can add or take out as little as one dollar. He can make payments and send money to family members who live far away. Orange Money says it serves four million customers in ten countries.

In education, the United Nations agency UNESCO is holding its second Mobile Learning Week in Paris later this month. Conference delegates (代表)are to discuss how the mobile phone use can increase the number of peo?ple who read. Other issues include how mobile technologies can support teachers, and make it easier for girls and women to receive an education.

8. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 is written mainly to show that

  A.Africans like mobile phones more than clean water

B. clean water is no longer a big problem in Africa

C. Africans don't know what is really important

D.mobile phones and Internet are widely used in Africa

9. According to CNN television, we learn that .

  A. mobile phones have brought many problems to the countries in Africa

B. mobile phones have the biggest influence on political activism in Africa

C. mobile phones are more important in Africa than in any other part of the world

 D. mobile phones have played an important role in changing Africans' life

10.What do Africans most probably think of the mobile phone banking service called Orange Money?

A. Useless.                          B. Convenient.

C. Interesting.                       D. Expensive.

11. What is the United Nations agency UNESCO trying to do?

  A. Find more teachers who are willing to teach in Africa.

   B. Provide more reading materials on the Internet for mobile phone users.

C. Help Africans receive a better education using mobile phones.

D Prove to the world that mobile phones also have other important uses.

Answer 1

C

[文章大意]在非洲，手机的使用越来越普遍，这一现象也正在改变着非洲人的生活。

8- 作者意图题。画线句子是讲在非洲，人们使用手机和因特网的可能性比得到干净水的可能性更大，这主要是为了说明在非洲使用手机和因特网很普遍。

9.D 推理判断题。根据第三段的"CNN television recently named seven ways of life which have been changed because of mobile phones.”可知，在非洲，手机在改变人们生活方式方面起着非常重要的作用。

10.  B 推理判断题。根据第三段的"Now he uses a mobile phone banking service called Orange Money. With his telephone, he can add or take out as little as one dollar. He can make payments and send money to family members who live far away."可推断，非洲人认为这种服务非常便利。

11.  C 细节理解题。根据末段的"Conference delegates(代表）are to discuss how the mobile phone use can increase the number of people who read. Other issues include how mobile technologies can support teachers...，，可知，这个机构正在设法利用手机来帮助非洲人接受更好的教育。