5. Can all this be done easily?

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4. What must be done, for example?

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3. Can anything be done about it?

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2. Do the poorer countries have many problems? What for example?

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1. What’s the difference between the two parts?

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5. How old was Ted when his bicycle was stolen ?

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(B)The rich and the poor

　　 The world is divided (分为)into two main parts . The difference is that one

part is rich and the other is poor . In the poor part, a lot of people never get enough to

eat . In the rich part , a lot of people eat too much . In one part , child starve (饿死)and in the other , a lot of people get fatter and fatter and have to go on diets (吃特别饮食), or do special exercises in order to lose weight.

　　 The poorer countries have special problems. Sometimes the land is too poor

to grow anything on . The land can be improved (改善), but a lot of things must be done first . The people must be educated an water must be found.

　　 But rich countries have problems, too. There are not always pleasant

places to live in . Sometimes the air is too dirty to breathe, and the rivers are too dirty to swim in or to take water from. The roads are too crowded to drive along. Large numbers of people do not have decent (象样的)housed to live in . Some things will have to be done about these problems.　

The air and the river will have to be cleaned, and more houses will have to be

built.

Answer the questions:

4. Why was he surprised and amused ?

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3. What are the police doing with the bicycle ?

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2. What was he told at the station ?

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(A)Quick Work

　　 Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and he is not worried at more.

　　 At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train.

　　 Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused (感到有趣)，too , because he never expected (指望)the bicycle to be found . It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.

　Answer the questions :

1. What happened last Tuesday ?

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