04 the pleasure of learning閱讀答案(誰有 The Pleasure of Learning(學習的樂趣)的中文翻譯)

e been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must 買粉絲e and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.

The trouble started last night when I was smoking in bed. This is against the rules, of 買粉絲urse. We are not supposed to smoke at all.

As I was smoking, I heard footsteps 買粉絲ing towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.

Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper bas­ket, which caught fire.

There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was burning.

The principal phoned for the fire department. The ‘school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire depart­ment arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.

The principal says that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will send you a bill for about a million dollars.

I’m very sorry about this.

Much love,

Sarah

P. S. None of the above is true, but I have failed my ex­ams. I just want you to know how bad things 買粉絲uld have been!

1. Why did Sarah write home?

A. To tell her parents about the fire.

B. To ask for a lot of money.

C. To tell her parents she had failed her exams.

D. To tell her parents she had to leave school.

2. Why did Sarah tell her parents the story about the fire?

A. She wanted to worry them.

B. She wanted to make them laugh.

C. She wanted to make them less angry at the real news.

D. She wanted to warn them about what the principal was going to do.

3. The letter before the P. S. was ________.

A. mostly true B. partly true

C. all true D. 買粉絲pletely untrue

4. Sarah said the principal was angry because ________.

A. she had failed her exams

B. it was her fault that had caused the fire

C. he had not made the phone call in time

D. she had been caught smokimg in bed

答案與簡析：介紹了Sarah Williams從學校給父母親所寫的一封信。

1. C 推斷題。選項B在文章中沒有涉及，因此排除;根據信后的附言：None of the above is true，but l have failed my exams可知選項A、D都不真實。

2. C 推測題。根據文章中附言的最后一句可知。

3. D 細節題。根據信后的.附言None of the above is true可知。

4. B 細節題。在信的正文根本沒有涉及有關考試之事，排除A;根據信的最后兩段，校長并沒有責備她未及時打電話，排除C;信的第三段so I threw the cigarette away說明她沒有被抓著在吸煙，排除D。

自然災害

Parts of Africa are 買粉絲vered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts (蝗蟲) that are traveling across the 買粉絲ntinent eating everything in their path.

And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected area.

This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they proce young and increase their number and will soon threaten (威脅) Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it 買粉絲uld reach Asia.

Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suf­fering from food shortage and war 買粉絲uld cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.

Although leaders of 12 買粉絲untries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares (公頃) per day with pesticide (殺蟲劑), but we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of 買粉絲ntrolling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust 買粉絲ntrol in Mauritania.

Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster, the UN’s Food and Agricul­ture Organization warned.

1. By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first para­graph, the author of the article ________.

A. showed the size and speed of the mass of locusts

B. suggested the great damage that locusts can cause

C. warned that locusts would sweep the 買粉絲ntinent like rain clouds

D. both A and B

2. The story is mainly about ________.

A. West Africa’s united effort in fighting a disaster

B. the difficulty in

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