B
The quality of drinking water
in Shanghai will meet European Union standard by
2010 and, a decade later, citizens in Shanghai
will drink the best water in the world.
These were the goals set out
by the Shanghai Water Authority. With the city's population expected to
increase only slightly and the economy to boom by 2020, Chen Yin, an official
with the water authority, said Shanghai's
water consumption will not increase from its present amount.
Zhang Yue, director of the
Urban construction Division under the Ministry of Construction, said, “Shanghai is the first city
in the country to publicize these ambitions. They will not be easy to achieve.”
He said water saving will help
keep the sustainable development of China's economy.
Saving one cubic meter of
water means saving the city's infrastructure(基础设施)costs by
10,
000 yuan. Last year, Shanghai
saved 300 million cubic meters of water either from readjustment of industrial
structure or the employment of new technology.
“The aim is to arouse
public awareness of the seriousness of water shortages,” Chen said.” The
abundant surface water and amount of rain of the city are so misleading that
they result in improper use of water.”
Shanghai lacks drinkable water. The Huangpu River, which supplies 80 percent of the
city's drinkable water, is nearing exhaustion.
The city, therefore, has been
exploring new sources from the Yangtze River
and growing forests along it to conserve quality water.
Besides penning regulations,
the authority is popularizing technology among the public to efficiently cut
the amount of water used.
At present, the city has 600
000 family toilets, each using 13 liters of water per flush. These are to be
renovated(整修)to use only 9 liters of water
per flush.
The authority is renovating
the first 200 toilets for households-at a cost of 40 yuan each.
In three years, all the
toilets will be renovated, which saves the city nearly 15 million yuan
every year in water conservation.
Another task the city is
engaged in is the treatment of sewage(污水)to improve the water
environment.
At present the city can only
treat 44 percent of its daily 5.04 million tons of waste water. To meet the
total demand, 27 more sewage treatment factories are to be established with an
estimated investment of 18 billion yuan.
41.
The people in Shanghai
get their daily water mainly from now.
A. underground B. the Yellow River C. the Yangtze River D. the Huangpu River
42.
The underlined words “the aim” here refer to .
A. the quality of drinking
water in Shanghai
will meet European Union standard by 2010
B. citizens in Shanghai will drink the
best water in the world by 2020
C. water saving will help keep
the sustainable development of China's
economy
D. saving one cubic meter of
water means saving the city's infrastructure costs by 10 000 yuan
43.
The authority is renovating the first 200 toilets for households to .
A. make people's living more
convenient B. save
drinkable fresh water
C. ease employment pressure D.
meet the total demand of water
44.
The writer wrote the passage to .
A. call on residents to save
water in their daily life
B. seek(寻找)ways to solve water shortage existing in
Shanghai
C. introduce Shanghai's advanced experience in improving
the water environment
D. show that citizens in Shanghai will have the
best drinking water in the world
45.
In the opinion of Zhang Yue, the real meaning of the action to publicize these
ambitions is to make people know .
A. it is not easy to achieve
B. water shortage is very
serious in China
C. the importance of improving
infrastructure
D. economic development can't
be separated with water supply