Food for Learning
In Eritrea, a small country in northeast Africa, approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate. That percentage is even higher in woman. As in many developing countries, many Eritreans have traditional ideas about the role of women. They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritriea and other developing countries from improving their economic situation. Experience in many developing countnes has shown that educated women have fewer children and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families. In Eritrea, in fact, there is great need for improvement. It is one of the poorest countries in the world. For many Eritrean families, getting enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems, the Eritrean government together with the World Food Program,has a new program that offers food as a reward for leaming. In primary schools, all the children receive food packages to take home to their families. However, with the new program, the girls receive more food than the boys. This way, parents are encouraged to send their daughter to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another govemment program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National Union of Eritrean Women, this program offer food rewards to women and elder girls who are willing to join the program. Because of the war with Ethiopia, many women are bringing up their families on their own. They often live in refugee camps, with no land of their own and no way to earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job. They spend most of their day looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the tennagers and women change their lives. If they agree to join the program, they receive a large package of food each month. In return, the women are required to attend free literate classes for two hours every day. When Food for Training classes in two regions of Eritrea, 5000 girls and women joined in the first two months. It is especially popular with teenage girls, aged fourteen to sixteen, who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Traing also plans to offer other kinds of courses for women, using the same system of food rewards. In these courses, they will teach women job skills and crafts such as basket weaving. These women will not only learn to read and write. They will become aware of what is going on in their country.
41. According to the passage, traditional ideas about women __________.
A. are rejected by younger generation
B. help improve the economy
C. hinder economic development
D. have little impact on economic development
42. The Eritrean govemment is offering extra food to girls in school in order to __________.
A. encourage to keep girls at home
B. change traditional attitudes towards women
C. help girls feed their families
D. creat more jobs for Eritrean teachers
43. With the Food for Learning program, women get a large package of food as long as__________.
A. they attend free literacy classes every day
B. they have no land of their own
C. they bring up their families on their own
D. they live in refugee camps
44. The new literacy programs are an example of __________.
A. the work of 5,000 women and teenage girls
B. the problems with the aid of international organizations
C. local and international organizations working together
D. the Eritrean govemment working to keep its power
45. According to the passage, Food for Training will__________.
A. help women better their lives
B. encourage women to leave their country
C. teach women about intemational aid
D. allow women to spend more time at home
參考答案：
41.D[解析]問題是對婦女的傳統觀念是什麼。從文章第一段最後一句我們知道，傳統觀念中婦女的作用僅限於照顧家庭，可見，她們對經濟發展的影響微乎其微，所以D正確。
42.B[解析]問題是厄利垂亞政府給到學校上學的女孩提供更多的食物目的何在?第三段中間說到the girls receive more food than the boys. This way，parents are encouraged to send their daughter to school rather than keeping them at home顯然，政府此舉在於改變對婦女的傳統觀念。
43.A [解析]問題是在什麼情況下婦女可以得到一大包食物。第五段第三句In retum，the women are required to attend free literate classes.即只要她們參加免費的識字課就可以領到食物，所以選A。
44.C [解析]問題是新掃盲項目是什麼的範例，第三段第一句To deal with thes prob-lems, the Eritrean govemment together with the World Food Program, has a new program that offers food as a reward for leaming.可見，這一項目是當地政府和國際組織合作的結果。因此，選項C正確。
45.A[解析]問題是食物換學習項目的結果是什麼。文中第五段的第一句The Food for Training program helps the tennagers and women change their lives.顯然，該項目期望改善婦女的生活條件。
參考譯文
學習換食品
在東北非洲的一個小國厄利垂亞，大約80%的的人口是文盲。婦女中文盲的比例更高。像很多發展中國家一樣，許多厄利垂亞人對婦女的角色抱有傳統的觀點，他們認為婦女應該呆在家裡照顧家庭，不應該接受教育或者外出找工作。
這些觀念是阻止厄利垂亞及其他發展中國家改善經濟條件的因素之一。許多發展中國家的經驗表明，受過良好教育的婦女會少生孩子，有更多的機會來改善她們和家人的生活。事實上，在厄利垂亞，還有很多地方有待改進。厄利垂亞是世界上最貧窮的國家之一。對於許多厄利垂亞人來說，填飽肚子是他們日常面臨的問題。
為了解決這些問題，厄利垂亞政府同世界糧食計劃署一起實施一個新的項目，提供食品作為學習的獎勵。在小學，所有的孩子都會領到一包食品帶回家。隨著新項目的實施，女孩比男孩得到更多的食物。用這種方式鼓勵父母送他們的女兒去上學，而不是讓她們待在家裡做家務活。
政府的另一個旨在為婦女提供教育的項目是學習換食品計劃，它由厄利垂亞全國婦女聯合會管理，該項目為那些願意加入培訓的婦女和年齡稍大的姑娘們提供食物獎勵。由於和衣索比亞的戰爭，很多女人支撐著她們的家庭。她們常常住在難民營里，沒有自己的土地，沒有辦法賺錢。這些女性大多數都是文盲，沒有一技之長去找一份工作。她們大部分的時間用來尋找食物和為家人做飯。
學習換食品計劃可以幫助青少年和女性改變自己的生活。如果她們同意加入這個項目，她們每月會領到一大包食物。作為交換，婦女被要求參加每天兩小時的免費識字課。學習換食物計劃在厄利垂亞的兩個地區實施的前兩個月，有5000名女性參加了培訓。這個項目尤其受到14到16歲女孩子的歡迎，她們之前從來沒有機會上學。
學習換食物計劃還打算用同樣的食物獎勵的方式，為女性提供其他類型的課程。在這些課程中，他們會教婦女一些工作技能和手工藝如編籃子等。這些婦女不僅可以學習讀和寫，她們還會了解國家正在發生的事情。
In Eritrea, a small country in northeast Africa, approximately 80 percent of the population is illiterate. That percentage is even higher in woman. As in many developing countries, many Eritreans have traditional ideas about the role of women. They believe that women should stay home and take care of the family and should not get an education or look for a job.
These beliefs are one of the factors that prevent Eritriea and other developing countries from improving their economic situation. Experience in many developing countnes has shown that educated women have fewer children and have more opportunities for improving their lives and the lives of their families. In Eritrea, in fact, there is great need for improvement. It is one of the poorest countries in the world. For many Eritrean families, getting enough food is a daily problem.
To deal with these problems, the Eritrean government together with the World Food Program,has a new program that offers food as a reward for leaming. In primary schools, all the children receive food packages to take home to their families. However, with the new program, the girls receive more food than the boys. This way, parents are encouraged to send their daughter to school rather than keeping them at home.
Another govemment program that aims to educate women is Food for Training. Managed by the National Union of Eritrean Women, this program offer food rewards to women and elder girls who are willing to join the program. Because of the war with Ethiopia, many women are bringing up their families on their own. They often live in refugee camps, with no land of their own and no way to earn money. Most of these women are illiterate and have no skills to find a job. They spend most of their day looking for food and preparing it for their families.
The Food for Training program helps the tennagers and women change their lives. If they agree to join the program, they receive a large package of food each month. In return, the women are required to attend free literate classes for two hours every day. When Food for Training classes in two regions of Eritrea, 5000 girls and women joined in the first two months. It is especially popular with teenage girls, aged fourteen to sixteen, who have never had a chance to go to school before.
The organizers of Food for Traing also plans to offer other kinds of courses for women, using the same system of food rewards. In these courses, they will teach women job skills and crafts such as basket weaving. These women will not only learn to read and write. They will become aware of what is going on in their country.
41. According to the passage, traditional ideas about women __________.
A. are rejected by younger generation
B. help improve the economy
C. hinder economic development
D. have little impact on economic development
42. The Eritrean govemment is offering extra food to girls in school in order to __________.
A. encourage to keep girls at home
B. change traditional attitudes towards women
C. help girls feed their families
D. creat more jobs for Eritrean teachers
43. With the Food for Learning program, women get a large package of food as long as__________.
A. they attend free literacy classes every day
B. they have no land of their own
C. they bring up their families on their own
D. they live in refugee camps
44. The new literacy programs are an example of __________.
A. the work of 5,000 women and teenage girls
B. the problems with the aid of international organizations
C. local and international organizations working together
D. the Eritrean govemment working to keep its power
45. According to the passage, Food for Training will__________.
A. help women better their lives
B. encourage women to leave their country
C. teach women about intemational aid
D. allow women to spend more time at home
參考答案：
41.D[解析]問題是對婦女的傳統觀念是什麼。從文章第一段最後一句我們知道，傳統觀念中婦女的作用僅限於照顧家庭，可見，她們對經濟發展的影響微乎其微，所以D正確。
42.B[解析]問題是厄利垂亞政府給到學校上學的女孩提供更多的食物目的何在?第三段中間說到the girls receive more food than the boys. This way，parents are encouraged to send their daughter to school rather than keeping them at home顯然，政府此舉在於改變對婦女的傳統觀念。
43.A [解析]問題是在什麼情況下婦女可以得到一大包食物。第五段第三句In retum，the women are required to attend free literate classes.即只要她們參加免費的識字課就可以領到食物，所以選A。
44.C [解析]問題是新掃盲項目是什麼的範例，第三段第一句To deal with thes prob-lems, the Eritrean govemment together with the World Food Program, has a new program that offers food as a reward for leaming.可見，這一項目是當地政府和國際組織合作的結果。因此，選項C正確。
45.A[解析]問題是食物換學習項目的結果是什麼。文中第五段的第一句The Food for Training program helps the tennagers and women change their lives.顯然，該項目期望改善婦女的生活條件。
參考譯文
學習換食品
在東北非洲的一個小國厄利垂亞，大約80%的的人口是文盲。婦女中文盲的比例更高。像很多發展中國家一樣，許多厄利垂亞人對婦女的角色抱有傳統的觀點，他們認為婦女應該呆在家裡照顧家庭，不應該接受教育或者外出找工作。
這些觀念是阻止厄利垂亞及其他發展中國家改善經濟條件的因素之一。許多發展中國家的經驗表明，受過良好教育的婦女會少生孩子，有更多的機會來改善她們和家人的生活。事實上，在厄利垂亞，還有很多地方有待改進。厄利垂亞是世界上最貧窮的國家之一。對於許多厄利垂亞人來說，填飽肚子是他們日常面臨的問題。
為了解決這些問題，厄利垂亞政府同世界糧食計劃署一起實施一個新的項目，提供食品作為學習的獎勵。在小學，所有的孩子都會領到一包食品帶回家。隨著新項目的實施，女孩比男孩得到更多的食物。用這種方式鼓勵父母送他們的女兒去上學，而不是讓她們待在家裡做家務活。
政府的另一個旨在為婦女提供教育的項目是學習換食品計劃，它由厄利垂亞全國婦女聯合會管理，該項目為那些願意加入培訓的婦女和年齡稍大的姑娘們提供食物獎勵。由於和衣索比亞的戰爭，很多女人支撐著她們的家庭。她們常常住在難民營里，沒有自己的土地，沒有辦法賺錢。這些女性大多數都是文盲，沒有一技之長去找一份工作。她們大部分的時間用來尋找食物和為家人做飯。
學習換食品計劃可以幫助青少年和女性改變自己的生活。如果她們同意加入這個項目，她們每月會領到一大包食物。作為交換，婦女被要求參加每天兩小時的免費識字課。學習換食物計劃在厄利垂亞的兩個地區實施的前兩個月，有5000名女性參加了培訓。這個項目尤其受到14到16歲女孩子的歡迎，她們之前從來沒有機會上學。
學習換食物計劃還打算用同樣的食物獎勵的方式，為女性提供其他類型的課程。在這些課程中，他們會教婦女一些工作技能和手工藝如編籃子等。這些婦女不僅可以學習讀和寫，她們還會了解國家正在發生的事情。
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