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Nick Peters is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. Hes been a doctor for ten years.

Dr Peters gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesnt just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television！ Dr Peters has his own TV show. The show is in Italian， English and French. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that， he sings another song.

Dr Peters produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs， and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote. Dr Peters says， “I always love to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing.” But when Dr Peters was young， his father didnt want him to be a singer， so he went to medical school.

Some people tell Dr Peters he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr Peters says he helps people when he sings， too. “I like to make people smile. Sometimes its difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and entertainment both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good.”

1. Why does Dr Peters work 60 hours a week？

A. He can treat different diseases.

B. He takes care of so many patients.

C. He sings for many patients in the hospital.

D. He has much medical advice for his patients.

2. In his TV show， Dr Peters ___ .

A. sings love songs he wrote

B. sings about different diseases

C. sings and gives medical advice

D. sings songs to explain diseases

3. Dr Peters show is popular ___ .

A. with people who like his singing

B. with patients in Montreal

C. at medical school

D. in Las Vegas

4. Dr Peters sings songs to ___ .

A. help people

B. make people smile

C. treat his patients

D. realize his dream to perform in Las Vegas

B

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 （蝗蟲） 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 Senegals worst affected area.

This is West Africas biggest locust disaster in 15 years， and it is moving east， causing huge damage to crops. As they move， they produce young and increase their number and will soon threaten 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 （短缺） and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the locusts.

Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan， it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6，000 hectares （公頃） per day with pesticide （殺蟲劑）， but we need to treat 20，000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster，” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah， 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.

5. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 refer to？

A. Living cloud. B. Great damage.

C. A mass of locusts. D. A rain cloud.

6. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that the locust disaster ___ .

A. has reached Asia

B. was out of control

C. was the first in Asia

D. would be even more serious in Asia

7. Which of the following is TRUE？

A. Senegal is to the southwest of Sudan.

B. The locusts has no natural enemy in West Africa.

C. 12 countries affected by locusts havent reached an agreement.

D. Senegal government offered a reward for fighting locusts.

8. Whats the passage mainly about？

A. West Africas united effort in fighting food shortage.

B. A war to fight against a disaster brought by locusts.

C. How locusts caused great damage to West Africa.

D. The difficulty in controlling locusts.

選詞填空

用方框里單詞的正確形式填空，使其句意完整。每空一詞，有兩個詞是多余的。

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furniture rotating feather disaster entertaining

1. What a frightful traffic ____ ！

2. I want some persons more ____ than Tom.

3. Do you know what ____ the fire？

4. Its time to ____ our differences and be friends again.

5. When exactly did the incident ____ ？

6. It took all day to transport the ____ to the new apartment.

7. It can be used on ____ machinery and under water.

8. The wind lifts the soft ____ on the little ducks head.

句子翻譯

1. 大雨在這個地區(qū)造成了水災(zāi)。

2. 他脫下我的鞋子，讓我在桌子旁坐下來。

3. 有一種可能，那就是這位老太太是被閃電擊中的。

4. 你像那樣開車最后總要進醫(yī)院的。