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Researcher Robert Engelman frown Population Action International says by the year 2025 about 3000 million people may lack water. At least 18 more countries are expected to have serious water problems. The need for water keeps increasing.

Mr Engelman says the population in these countries that lack water is growing faster than in other parts of the world. The report says lack of water in the future may result in(导致)several problems. It may even increase ______ problems. Lack of water often means drinking water isn't safe. Mr Engelman says there are problems all over the world because of diseases. Lack of water may also ______ more international conflict(冲突). Countries may have to compete for water in the future. Some countries, such as Egypt, the Netherlands, Cambodia, now get sixty percent of their fresh water from other countries. And the report says lack of water would affect(影响)the ability of developing to improve their economies. This is ______ new industries(工业)often need a large amount of water when they are beginning.

The Population Action International study gives several solutions ______ the water problem. One way, it says, is to find ways to use water for more than one purpose. ______ way is to teach people to be careful and not to waste water. A third way is to use less water of agriculture. The ______ also says long-term(长期的)ways of dealing with the water problem must include controls on population growth.

1.A.health B.water C.economy D.healthy

2.A.take B.cause C.result D.change

3.A.what B.that C.how D.because

4.A.or B.at C.to D.of

5.A.Second B.The other C.Another D.Other

6.A.story B.report C.news D.actions

We buy vegetables in the supermarket. But students at Dalton Middle School in Georgia, US, may no longer(不再) need a supermarket! Tomatoes, green peppers and other vegetables are growing outside the doors of a science classroom at school.

Seventh-grade science teacher Sarah Ott has a vegetable garden. Her spring students planted vegetabe seeds in the garden. Her autumn students enjoy the vegetables.

The students pick, water and watch the vegetables grow. The school garden is a good chance(机会) for them to learn how to grow plants.

Seventh-grader Habibah Bikhit says she loves to work in the school garden.

“It’s because we just get to pick and look at all the beautiful vegetables and the flowers,” she says.

A class of language learners also join them. Ott says it is also a good way for them to learn English words, because they can connect (联系) the words with real things.

You would be surprised at how much the kids can learn from it.

1.Students at Dalton Middle School don’t need to buy vegetabels because _________.

A.they open a supermarket themselves.

B.they don’t like eating vegetables at all.

C.they grow vetgetables in a vegetable garden.

D.their parents don’t give them money.

2.What does Habibah Bikhit think of her work in the school garden?

A.She doesn’t enjoy it. B.She thinks it is not interesting.

C.She is interested in it. D.She is good at growing vegetables.

3.What do students learn from working in the garden?

a. English words with the real things. b. How to plant vegetables.

c. The way to cook vegetables. d. How to make friends.

A.a, b B.a, c C.b, c D.a, d

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