阅读理解精练9
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
（一）
Sarah Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school：
Wentworth Girls School
Beachside
July 20th
Dearest Mom and Dad，
I’m afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come 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 cour. We are not suppod to smoke at all.
As I was smoking， I heard footsteps coming 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 bas-ket， 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 depart-ment 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 nd you a bill for about a million dollars.
I’m very sorry about this.
Much love，刻章大师
Sarah
P. S. None of the above is true， but I have failed my ex-amps. I just want you to know how bad things could 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.哪些食物回奶
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. completely untrue
4. Sarah said the principal was angry becau ________.
甘肃平凉崆峒山A. she had failed her exams
B. it was her fault that had caud the fire
C. he had not made the phone call in time
婚礼上的歌曲D. she had been caught smoking in bed
（二）
Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts[蝗虫] that are traveling across the continent 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 produce young and increa their number and will soon threaten[威胁] Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.
Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering from food shortage and war could cau many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.
Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan， it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6，000 hectares[公顷] per day with pesticide[杀虫剂]， but we need to treat 20，000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster，” said Mohamed Abdullah Old Babar， director of locust control in Mauritania.
Requests are being made for international aid， which is the only way to limit the disaster， the UNs Food and Agriculture Organization warned.汽车凹陷修复
1. By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first para-graph， the author of the article ________.
A. showed the size and speed of the mass of locusts
B. suggested the great damage that locusts can cau
C. warned that locusts would sweep the continent 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 controlling locusts
C. how locusts caud great damage to West Africa
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D. a struggle to fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa
3. The locust disaster ________.
A. would be even more rious in Asia
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B. is（was）out of control
C. affected only the warning areas
D. cannot be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas
4. Which of the following is WRONG？
A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort.
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