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       Singapore (新加坡) is a small island with a busy city, factories and a large port (港口). Nearly
all of the food is from abroad because the island is so small and it has very few farms. Hay Dairies is
the only goat farm on the island. 
       Goats are useful animals. They are able to produce milk for us to drink. The milk can also be
used to make many things including cheese, soap and beauty creams. Their meat can be eaten and
their hair can be made into beautiful clothes. Their skin can be made into leather. In some parts of
the world, goats are kept to carry heavy loads (重物). 
      The, 1,000 goats at Hay Dairies are kept for their milk. The farm was set up by John Hay, a pig
farmer who saw that there was a growing need in Singapore for goat's milk. One in five children in
Singapore suffers (患病) from Asthma (气喘), a disease which does a lot of harm to the breathing
pathway and leads to a sudden difficulty in breathing that can cause death if not treated quickly. Many
of these children cannot drink cow's milk as this can start an asthma attack and doctors believe goat's
milk is healthy choice.
1. How many goat farms are there is Singapore?
                                                                                                  
2. What can goats be used to do for us according to the story? 
                                                                                                  
3. Who set up Hay Dairies? 
                                                                                                  
4. Why was Hay dairies set up?
                                                                                                   
5. Why can't some children drink cow's milk?
                                                                                                   

An Australian teenager stepped onto the shore(海岸) for the first time in nearly nine months, announcing to the record for being the youngest solo sailor to circle the globe nonstop.

David Dicks, 18, left Perth on the 10-metre sailing boat On February 26th, 1996. He returned with a warm hero’s welcome, cheered by thousands on the shore and greeted by about 200 other boats.

At the age of 17 when he started out, the teenager’s voyage(航海) gave him his first look ever at snow when he rounded Cape Horn.

Strong winds in the Pacific broke his mast in May, but he kept going until he could borrow a tool from the British Royal Navy to fix it.

“David had dreamed of a round-the-world sail when he was five, inspired by a family friend who did it three times,” his mother Patricia Dicks said.

“Once he started making plans to do it, I never doubted that he would,” she said.

In September, 20-year-old Brain “BJ” Caldwell Jr. landed a 26 sloop(单桅帆船) in Hawaii and asked for the title of the youngest sailor circling the world. His asking was admitted by the World Sailing Commission.

Australian news reported that the last record holder accepted by the Guinness Book of Records was American Robert Lee Graham, who set out in 1965 at the age of 16.

Graham took five years to complete the trip, stopping off along the way to get married. But David asked for the nonstop voyages.

53. David Dicks is the ______.

A. faster solo sailor circling the globe.

B. faster sailor circling the globe nonstop

C. youngest solo sailor circling the earth.

D. youngest solo sailor circling the earth nonstop.

54. Robert Lee Graham_________.

 A. was accepted by the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest solo sailor

B. was accepted as the youngest but greatest sailor.

C. first thought about sailing when he was five years old.

D. traveled around the world faster than Brian “BJ” Caldwell Jr.

55. We may infer from the text that __________.

A. David took the place of Robert in the Guinness Book of Records

B. David had never left his hometown before the trip

C. David is a determined person

D. His mother herself took three sailing trips.

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