______ with all sorts of affairs, the manager had little time to have a good sleep.
A. Occupying B. Being occupied
C. Occupied D. Having occupied
Experts suggest that young parents ______ some time to communicate with their children instead of spending much time playing games on the phone.
A. set aside B. put away
C. make up D. account for
This kind of plant ______ grass in appearance , so it’s difficult for the students to tell them.
A. reflects B. instructs
C. resembles D. shapes
In response to the citizens’ concern, the government claimed ______ measures to attend to the increasingly serious smog in the past two months.
A. taking B. to take
C. having taken D. to have taken
—What about the two of us going downtown ?
— ______. I hate spending time hanging around.
A. That suits me fine B. Why not
C. It depends on the weather D. Well, that’s the last thing I will do
请阅读下面短文，然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。
Water is the driving force of all nature, Leonardo da Vinci claimed. Unfortunately for our planet, water supplies are now running dry at an alarming rate. The world’s population continues to increase but that rise in number has not been matched by adequate supplies of fresh water. Reports show that more than a billion individuals — one in seven people on the planet — now lack access to safe drinking water.
In Sao Paulo, a Brazilian city, drought got so bad that residents began drilling through basement floors and car parks to try to reach groundwater. Officials in this city warned that rationing（配给制）of water supplies was likely soon. Citizens in Sao Paulo might have access to water for only two days a week. In California, US, officials have shown that the state has entered its fourth year of drought. At the same time, its per capita（人均）water use has continued to rise.
（写作内容）
1.用约30词概括上述信息的主要内容；
2.结合上述信息及日常生活，简要分析导致全球淡水资源短缺的主要原因（不少于两点）；
3.谈谈在日常生活中我们应如何保护淡水资源（不少于两点）。
（写作要求）
1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3.不必写标题。
（评分标准）
内容完整。语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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