题文
Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rate. But according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty. Danielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute in Washington spent a year visiting twenty-five countries south of the Sahara. In Nairobi, Kenya, for example, Ms Nierenberg found women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlement. She says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus. They use the money to send their children to school.Last year, about 925,000,000 people worldwide did not get enough to eat. Half of all people in the world now live in and around cities. Researchers like Ms Nierenberg are looking increasingly at creative ideas to feed those who don’t have enough good food to eat. She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.
Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market. There are many reasons why food gets wasted. Farmers are without electricity and cold storage. They lack good seeds and fertilizer. They lack good roads. Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty. Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests. She says, “Given all that we invest in producing food in the first place, we need to devote the same amount of attention to making sure that it is not wasted.”
In Nigeria, village processing centers are helping farmers reduce their losses and earn more money. They centers process cassava, a root vegetable, into basic food products. In Uganda, the Worldwatch report says some schools are teaching children how to grow local kinds of crops. And in South Africa and Kenya the report praises the breeding(培育) of local kinds of livestock. These animals may produce less milk or meat than other breeds, but they can survive heat and drought conditions.
小题1:We could learn from the new report in Para.1 that .A．sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest hunger rateB．African farmers have ideas to help fighting hunger and povertyC．women farmers grow vegetables in the Kibera settlementD．women farmers grow vegetables to send their children to school.小题2:The underlined word “surplus” in Para.1 is closest in meaning to .A．private vegetablesB．side productsC．leftover vegetablesD．home-made products小题3:Ms Nierenberg suggests that .A．the women spend more money on education instead of farmingB．more and more African people should live in and around citiesC．researchers find creative ideas to feed the people suffering hungerD．people in the Western world do the same as the Africans have done小题4:Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A．Farmers in developing world often lose some of their harvestB．Small farmers in developing countries often suffer poverty.C．Farmers should pay more attention to protecting their harvestD．Attention should be paid to saving food instead of producing food小题5:The best title of this passage should be .A．A New Report about African Farmers Fighting HungerB．Creative Ideas to Feed Those Who Have No Enough FoodC．Looking to Africa for Ideas about How to Fight HungerD．Animals That Can Survive Heat and Drought Conditions 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:D
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
试题解析：文章叙述的是：面对撒哈拉沙漠以南的非洲的饥饿状况，根据一项调查而展示给大家的非洲农民妇女以及尼日利亚对抗饥饿和贫困的措施，值得人们学习和借鉴。
小题1:细节理解题。根据第一段的内容，ACD都有但不是根据新的报告了解的内容，所以都不对，根据according to a new report, African farmers also have ideas that could help the world fight hunger and poverty.根据一项新的报告，非洲的农民有可以帮助世界应对饥饿和贫困的做法，所以B正确。
小题2: 词义猜测题。 A. private vegetables私人蔬菜 B. side products配菜C. leftover vegetables剩余的蔬菜D. home-made products国货，根据第一段women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlementShe says they are finding ways to make their lives better. The women feed their families and sell their surplus.，她们种蔬菜，除了解决自己的温饱还卖剩余的蔬菜，所以C正确。
小题3:细节理解题。根据第二段最后两句话She says there are a lot of lessons that people in the Western world can learn from Africa. And what they are doing can certainly be done in other developing countries.她说有许多经验可以从非洲学习，而且他们所做的在其他发展中国家也可以做，没得出D正确。
小题4:细节理解题。用排除法，根据第三段第一句话Farmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches market，得出A，根据第三段第四句话Conditions like these keep small farmers in poverty.，得出B，根据第三段最后一句话Ms Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvests.得出C，而D与C相反，所以D不符合事实，所以选D。
小题5:主旨大意题。通读全文知道，通过一项新的调查引出非洲一系列对抗饥饿和贫困的做法，所以短文的最好题目应该是C，其他选项均不符合。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Sub-Saharan Africa h.....”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：
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日常生活类阅读题答题技巧：
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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。
