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时文阅读(四)——环保世界
All living things on the earth need water to live. Yet people pollute and waste it. More than a fifth of the world's population doesn't have enough water. It is likely that people will go to war over water in your lifetime.
Water pollution
If you had a bottle of water to keep yourself alive, would you pour it down your toilet? Of course not. And yet, that is just what people are doing with our water, all over the world.
Factories pour polluted water into the river. Farmers use pesticides(杀虫剂) and fertilizers(化肥), which are washed into rivers and lakes. In many parts of the world, people use rivers like toilets and trash cans.
Drying up our planet
Near the sea, when too much water is taken from underground lakes, seawater flows, making the water salty and undrinkable.
If you take more money out of a bank than you put in, you become overdrawn and finally go broke. We are doing this to our underground lakes all over the world. In West Asia, North Africa, China, India, Russia and the US, we use far too much water. Water shortage is one of the most important problems in the world right now.
Water we use has increased everywhere in the last 50 years. Between 1900 and the mid 1980s, water consumption(消费) in Asia increased from 600 to 5,000 km³, a year. In Beijing, water consumption increased almost 100 times between 1950 and 1980. The crazy thing is that water is lost through leaky(渗漏的) pipes(水管). In parts of Central Asia, the pipes are so bad that over half the water is lost through leaks.
(B)1. In paragraph 3, how many times does it mention polluted rivers or lakes?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.
(C)2. The underlined word "overdrawn" means "C" in Chinese.
A. 分红 B. 著名 C. 透支 D. 盈利
(B)3. According to the last paragraph, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Asian countries use more water than any rich country.
B. Over 50% of water is lost through leaking pipes in parts of Central Asia.
C. Water consumption increased quickly in the 1970s.
D. Water consumption in Asia increased almost 10 times between 1900 and the mid 1980s.
4. What can we do to save water? (不多于 10 个单词)
I'll turn off the tap while brushing my teeth.

答案： 1-3. BCB
4. I'll turn off the tap while brushing my teeth. (合理即可)