Droughts (干旱)are common in Kenya . Before ,they came every 10 years ,but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for a longer time .
We gave the droughts names :“longoza”was the drought when many animals died ; there was the drought of the “planes” because food was dropped from the air by planes; and one particularly bad drought was called “ man who dies with his money in his fist (拳头)”，because ,even if there was money , there was simply no food to buy .
I was born in 1951 in Machakos. From what my mother tells me , when I was 7, there was a serious drought . I clearly remember the terrible weather and the hunger. I can’t tell you how many times I went to bed without eating . “ I slept like that ,” is how we described it . I can’t count the number of days when “ I slept like that,” or describe the feeling of going to sleep hungry ,knowing I’d wake up and there would still be no food for breakfast.
My father would leave early in the morning carrying a little basket to ask for food on credit (赊欠). Each night he would return home around 10:00p.m. My mother would try to encourage me by telling me to keep the water in our pot boiling so that when my father arrived we could quickly cook any food he brought in the already prepared water . I would keep the fire burning and the water boiling , along with the hopes that we would eat that night. But my father would arrive frustrated and empty -handed. And I would sleep like that.
【小题1】The best title for the text is ________.

A．A Hungry Childhood Caused by Droughts

B．Food and Hunger

C．Protecting the Environment

D．Droughts and Their Names

【小题2】What does the drought of the “ longoza”refer to (指代)?

A．Many animals needed food dropped by planes.

B．People had to eat animals because of hunger.

C．Many animals died because of the droughts.

D．People died of hunger even if they had money.

【小题3】Why would the author keep the fire burning and the water boiling?

A．To wait for her father to come back to have supper.

B．To cook the food that her father would bring back.

C．To keep her house warm all night.

D．To make her hungry mother happy.

【小题4】The sentence “I slept like that ” means “ ________.”

A．I was disappointed when my father came back empty-handed

B．I felt sorry because my family got hungry again

C．I went to sleep with no food for breakfast.

D．I went to bed with nothing to eat

　　It was a few days before New Year's Day, so when the office 1 at half past five, a lot of young boys and girls 2 and had a party (聚会) . They 3 and drank, played games and watched TV , and nobody (没人) wanted 4 home. But Jim had a wife (妻子)at home, and lived quite along way 5 the city. 6 few minutes he looked at his watch, and at last (最后) , when it was very 7 he began to leave.

　　“Jim!”shouted (喊) his friends,“are you 8 ? 9 don't you stay and enjoy the party?”

　　 “I'm not leaving. ”said Jim, “ I am only going down to the 10 to miss (错过) the last train back home. I will be back here soon. ”

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　　“Jim!”shouted (喊) his friends,“are you 8 ?   9 don't you stay and enjoy the party?”

　　 “I'm not leaving. ”said Jim, “ I am only going down to the 10 to miss (错过) the last train back home. I will be back here soon. ”

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阅读理解

　　Maybe there are many differences between going to school in Britain and going to school in your country. In Britain school starts between 8:30 and 9:00 and finishes at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It is a long day but there are no lessons on Saturdays. Children usually have lunch at school. School meals are not very expensive and are quite good. But some children don't like them and bring sandwiches or go home.

　　In Britain school holidays are different from those in other countries. They are shorter at Christmas and Easter but much longer in the summer. The school year starts in the first week in September and ends in the third or fourth week of July.

　　Children start primary school when they are five years old; they stay there until they are eleven. Then they usually go to a secondary school. Children cannot leave. school before they are sixteen. At this age most students take public exams. Students who continue their studies go into the sixth form. If their school doesn't have a sixth form, they change schools or go to a college. Students need two years in the sixth form, and they take more public exams. In some parts of Britain, students go to middle school at the age of eight and then go to secondary schools when they are twelve or thirteen.