When I crossed a small road on my first day in Kolkata, I was surprised because I heard a bell-not a horn (喇叭),  It was a tiny man pulling a rickshaw(黃包車), He stopped and picked up two children from the front door of their house and pulled them to school. For many people, the rickshaw in Kolkata has many advantages. When the traffic is bad, rickshaws find a way through the traffic. If you miss your bus and there aren't any taxis, you can always find a rickshaw in Kolkata. Rickshaws are from your house to the market and waits for you. Then he loads (裝載)all your things, drops you off outside your home and helps you unload, No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.
From June to September, Kolkata gets heavy rain. Sometimes it rains for 48 hours without a break. In some parts of the city, the roads flood (水淹), and anything with an engine(發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)) is useless, But the rickshaw drivers never stop working, even with water all around them.
But not everyone thinks rickshaws are a good thing. The local government wants to ban rickshaws. They believe it is wrong for one man to pull another person when there is modern transport in the city. However, there is a problem with this plan. Many of the rickshaw drivers come from the countryside. The only job they can find in Kolkata is pulling a rickshaw, If the city bans rickshaws, these men won't have a job. So for the moment, the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.
小題1:What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?
A．The rickshaw drivers carry things for local people in Kolkata.
B．Parents need rickshaws for taking children to school in Kolkata.
C．Rickshaws can find a way through the bad traffic in Kolkata.
D．Rickshaws are very useful for the people's daily life in Kolkata.
小題2:Which type of transport may you take when the roads flood in Kolkata?
A．A bus.B．A taxi.C．A car. D．A rickshaw.
小題3:What does the underlined word "ban" mean?
A．makeB．encourageC．forbidD．collect
小題4:What can we learn from the passage?
A．The rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns.
B．The rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata.
C．The local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw driven.
D．The people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars.

小題1:D
小題2:D
小題3:C
小題4:B

試題分析：這篇短文中作者主要介紹了黃包車在Kolkata地區(qū)的流行以及它的巨大便利，給人們帶來了很多方便，成為許多普通大眾的謀生手段。
小題1:大意歸納題。根據(jù)短文第一段的描述以及最后一句話No other type of public transport offers this kind of service.可知本段的主要內(nèi)容就是介紹的黃包車的巨大用處；前三項(xiàng)都不如D項(xiàng)概述全面；故選D。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段 But the rickshaw drivers never stop working, even with water all around them.可知在大雨天，不受影響的就是黃包車，所以選D。
小題3:詞義猜測題。根據(jù)短文最后一段開頭說政府不認(rèn)為黃包車是一種好現(xiàn)象，以及If the city bans rickshaws, these men won't have a job. 可知，ban的意思是禁止；故選C。
小題4:推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文最后一段的描述可知，黃包車目前還是很多基層人士的謀生手段；故選B。
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