In Africa, engineers are teaching poor farmers how to find water using bamboo. These African countries need cheap ways to find water because they have no money, and their fields often die from no rain and no water. It seems that bamboo is one of the best things they can use. Bamboo pipes and drills(钻) can help to make the poor thirsty fields to be watered.

　　51. How is bamboo like grass?

　　A. It is thin and easy to cut.

　　B. It grows everywhere.

　　C. It grows quickly after its cut short. D. It is short and green.

　　52. The sentence “while others may grow to more than 30 centimeters across.” means “Some other bamboo plants may grow to be very _______.”

　　A. short

　　B. strong

　　C. thick

　　D. tall

　　53. From the text we know ______.

　　A. most people call bamboo plant trees

　　B. a bamboo plant may grow 4.5 meters in three days

　　C. the bamboo plant changes its colors when it grows

　　D. a bridge held by bamboo cable was built thousands of years ago

　　54. Why did the engineers teach the poor farmers in Africa to make use of bamboo?

　　A. Because it is cheap.

　　B. Because it is colorful.

　　C. Because it drills fast.

　　D. Because it is used by Asians.

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