Question

【題目】Water covers 70% of the Earth, but only 3% of it is clean and suitable for human consumption. Even if you live in an area with enough rainfall, using water requires energy to process, pump, heat, re-pump, and reprocess it. 【1】

Save water from your taps.

Turn the tap off while you are brushing your teeth, shaving, washing your hands, doing dishes, and so on.【2】 Get wet, and then turn off the water while you soap up. Turn it back on for long enough to wash away the soap.

【3】

Take a timer, clock, or stopwatch into the bathroom with you and challenge yourself to cut down your showering time. You could even play music while in the shower and challenge yourself to cut down the number of songs it takes you.【4】

Use wastewater from the bath, washing machines or dish washing on the garden.

If possible, connect a pipe to the outlet on your machine to send the water outside onto your garden. When hand-washing dishes, rinse (沖洗) the dishes into a container, and empty the container into your garden.

【5】 Either pour it directly into the bowl. or use it to refill the toilet tank when you flush.

A. If you’re not sure whether wastewater is suitable for plants, you can use it to flush (沖) your toilet.

B. Not all toilets will be able to flush effectively with a reduced amount of water.

C. Turn the tap off when you shower, too.

D. Replace your clothes washing machine with a high-efficiency washer.

E. Shave outside the shower, or turn off the shower while you shave.

F. Take shorter showers.

G. Fortunately, there are ways to save water for everyone.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】C

【3】F

【4】E

【5】A

【解析】雖然地球表面70%被水覆蓋，但是只要3%的可飲用水，因此節(jié)約用水至關(guān)重要，本文提供了一些省水的好辦法。

【1】根據(jù)空格前一句Even if you live in an area with enough rainfall, using water requires energy to process, pump, heat, re-pump, and reprocess it.得知凈化水需要很復(fù)雜的過程，因此下一句：幸運的是，有一些人人可用的省水好方法。符合該處語境。故選G。

【2】根據(jù)空格前Turn the tap off以及空格后Get wet, and then turn off the water while you soap up. Turn it back on for long enough to wash away the soap.得知打肥皂時關(guān)掉水管可以節(jié)約用水。前言后語同義詞可以判斷，故選C。

【3】根據(jù)下文的內(nèi)容challenge yourself to cut down your showering time.得知這里建議我們減少洗浴時間。根據(jù)段落一致性原則，查找同義詞cut down，推斷出主題句。故選F。

【4】根據(jù)空格前面描述是洗浴時如何省水，得知這里建議不要在洗浴時刮胡子，或者關(guān)掉水再刮胡子。因此E項表示遞進的關(guān)系。故選E。

【5】根據(jù)上一段建議用廢水澆花等植物以及Either pour it directly into the bowl. or use it to refill the toilet tank when you flush。也可以用廢水來沖馬桶。A項起到銜接的作用。故選A。