14．Most mornings，the line begins to form at dawn：scores of silent women with babies on their backs，buckets balanced on their heads，and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug．On good days，they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari，a slumon the southern edge of New Delhi．On bad days，when there is no electricity for the pumps，the tankers don't come at all．"That water kills people，"a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning，pointing to a row of pails filled with thick，caramel （焦糖）-colored liquid．"Whoever drinks it will die．"The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhood．Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children，but nobody is desperate enough to drink it．
There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day，but experts usually put the minimum at fifty liters．The government of India promises （but rarely provides） forty．Most people drink two or three liters-less than it takes to wash a toilet．The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing．Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred liters of water each day，more than any other people on earth．Most Europeans use less than half that．The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred liters that day-two or three buckets'worth．Shoba has a husband and five children，and that much water doesn't go far in a family of seven，particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon．She often makes up the difference with bottled water，which costs more than water delivered any other way．Sometimes she just buys milk； it's cheaper．Like the poorest people everywhere，the people of New Delhi's slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes．
28．The underlined word"slum"most likely meansC．
A．a(chǎn) village
B．a(chǎn) small town
C．a(chǎn) poor area of a town with badly-built，over-crowded buildings
D．the part of a town that lacks water
29．Sometimes the water tanker doesn't come becauseB．
A．the weather is bad
B．there is no electricity
C．there is no water
D．people don't want the dirty water
30．Which of the following statements is wrong？A
A．water is the biggest expense for people in New Delhi's slums
B．Shoba has a family of seven people
C．in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water
D．Americans uses the largest amount of water each day
31．The passage mainly tells usC．
A．how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water
B．how much water a day a person deeds
C．that India lacks water badly
D．how India government manages to solve the problem of water．
分析 本文主要描述印度缺少水的現(xiàn)象．人們的食用水和使用水都是一個極大的問題，不是等送水車的到來就是要到很遠(yuǎn)的地方去取水．
解答 28．C 詞義猜測題．根據(jù)第一段的第二句 On good days，they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari，a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi．可知，在運氣好的時候，人們能夠等到 送水車穿過臟的小道來 Kesum Purbahari送水，而Kesum Purbahari是一個及其貧窮的地方，結(jié)合選項，故slum指的是"貧窮地區(qū)"．故選
29．B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第一段的On bad days，when there is no electricity for the pumps，the tankers don't come at all．送水車不來，則人們就沒水喝了，可知答案為B
30．A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第二段的Like the poorest people everywhere，the people of New Delhi's slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes可知新德里貧困地區(qū)的人會花很多錢買水，但并沒有說買水是最大的花銷．
31．C 主旨大意題．通讀全文可知，本文主要描述印度缺少水的現(xiàn)象．結(jié)合選項，故選C
點評 本文是一個新聞報道類閱讀，題目涉及多道細(xì)節(jié)理解題，做題時結(jié)合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關(guān)語句進行仔細(xì)分析，結(jié)合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案，切忌胡亂猜測，一定要做到有理有據(jù)．
