题文
Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on a little corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.
I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought(干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other ways to feed themselves left.
Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure(测量) rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and develop their country. It’s our responsibility(责任) to change the situation so that they can support themselves.
Drought is impossible to avoid but famine(饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.
小题1: Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?A．Because they have no time.B．Because they are tired of them.C．Because they are always hungry.D．Because they have other interesting things to do.小题2:During the drought Tede had experienced, ______of his goats were killed.A．200B．193C．7D．6小题3: Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?A．He was a farmer in Kenya.B．He has never received any food aid.C．His traditional way of life ha s been changed.D．He found it hard to raise animals after the drought.小题4:What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?A．To show drought is serious in the world.B．To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage(短缺).C．To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya.D．To make it clear what is the right way to help people suffering from drought. 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:D
解析
作者在不久前去肯尼亚的托卡那湖地区时发现这个地方和多年前去的时候判若两地。究其原因作者发现这个地方正遭受着干旱的威。在文章最后作者指出要想帮助干旱地区的人们不能仅仅给他们提供粮食,而是要从根本上解决干旱问题。
小题1:C细节理解题．根据文章第二段No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food,可知人们不再唱歌跳舞是由于他们没有粮食吃，经常挨饿造成的，答案选C．
小题2:B细节理解题．由文章第三段Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left.可知他本来的２００只山羊现在还剩下7只,所以在干旱中死掉了193只,故答案选B.
小题3:B推理判断题.根据文章第三段Without the food aid(援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve和文章倒数第二段but people like Tede don’t want food aid.可以判断Tede Lokapelo能收到一些粮食救助,故B选项内容错误.
小题4:D主旨大意题.文章先是叙述肯尼亚干旱贫穷的状况，然后在文章最后提出具体的解决方法，根据unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure(基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.可以判断作者的写作目的就是为了指出帮助干旱地区的人们并不是仅仅给他们提供粮食,而是要从根本上解决干旱问题，由此可知D为正确选项。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Earlier this year I .....”主要考查你对 [日常生活类阅读 ]考点的理解。日常生活类阅读
日常生活类阅读的概念：
日常生活这一话题主要涉及人们衣食住行等方面的活动。这一话题的选材主要针对人们日常的工作，生活以及学习情况。做这一类题时，最主要的是要把握好人物的活动内容，时间和地点。
日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
【题型说明】
该类文章内容涉及到人们的言谈举止、生活习惯、饮食起居、服饰仪表、恋爱婚姻、消遣娱乐、节日起源、家庭生活等。文章篇幅短小，追根溯源，探索各项风俗的历史渊源，内容有趣。命题也以送分题为主，如事实细节题、语义转换题、词义猜测题和简单推理判断题等。虽然这类文章读起来感觉轻松，试题做起来比较顺手，但绝不能掉以轻心。因为稍不留神，就会丢分。
【备考提醒】
为了保证较高准确率，建议同学们做好以下几点：
1、保持正常的考试心态。笔者在教学中发现，越是容易的试题，同学们越是容易失分。为什么呢？因为在这种情况下，同学们极易产生麻痹思想，认为题目好做，就不引起高度重视，于是思维不发散、不周密。而命题人就是利用同学们的这一弱点，设计陷阱题。所以，无论试题难易与否，我们都要保持正常的考试心态。试题容易，不欣喜；试题难，不悲观。
2、根据前面讲到的方法，认认真真、细细心心做好事实细节题。
3、做好语义转换题。这类题是根据英语中一词多义和某些词语在文中能表达一定的修辞意义的原则而设计的。要求同学们解释某生词的含义，确定多义词或短语在文中的意思，确认文中的某个代词所指代的对象，或者对英语中特有的表达、格言、谚语进行解释。这种题要求同学们一定要根据上下文猜测词义或理解句子，切不可望文生义。
4、做好简单推理判断题。简单推理判断题要以表面文字为前提，以具体事实为依据进行推理，做出判断。这种推理方式比较直接，只要弄清事实，即可结合常识推断出合理的结论。
