The United Nations refugee （难民）agency says hundreds of thousands of Syrians who fled to Jordan to escape the war in Syria face a difficult future. Tens of thousands of these Syrians live in the Zaatari refugee camp. The camp was set up three years ago in just nine days. It has grown as the Syrian conflict has worsened. It is now the largest refugee camp in the Middle East.

    The fighting in Syria started more than four years ago, with a series of protests against the government. The United Nations estimates that since March of 2011, about 200,000 people have been killed in the fighting.

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says more than four million Syrians have fled the country. U.N. officials believe about 7.6 million others have fled their homes, but remain in Syria.

    Ariane Rummery works for the refugee agency. She says that more than half of the 81,000 Syrians in the Zaatari camp are children. She says educating them is a difficult job.

    "One in every three children inside Zaatri camp is outside of formal or informal schooling. There's also about nine and a half thousand (9,500) young people between 19 and 24 who need skills training and lack other ways to make a living. About five percent of these young people were at university in Syria, but had to drop out because of the conflict, and only 1.6 percent of those had managed to graduate."

    As difficult as life is in the camp, conditions are worse for the more than 500,000 Syrian refugees who are trying to survive in Jordanian cities. A recent study shows about 86 percent of them earn less than $95 a month.

    Ms. Rummery says these urban refugees are getting aid from the U.N. refugee agency, the World Food Program and other agencies. But, she says, it is not enough, and they are forced to make difficult decisions.

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1.Why did hundreds of thousands of Syrians flee to the Zaatari refugee camp?

A To challenge the difficult future.

B To enlarge the refugee camp.

C To escape the war in Syria.

D To set up the camp in nine days.

解析：选C。C。细节理解题。由第一段可知，成千上万的叙利亚人因躲避战争而逃到难民营来，故选C。

2.How many Syrians have left their home since the beginning of the war?

A About 11.6 million.

B About 7.6 million.

C About 200,000 million.

D About 4 million.

解析：选A。A。细节理解题。由第三段可知，自战乱以来，被迫离开家园逃亡到国外的叙利亚人有四百多万，留在国内不能回家的有七百六十多万，总计约一千一百六十多万，故选A。

3.The number of the university students in the Zaatari refugee camp was

A around 475

B around 160

C around 8

D around 152

解析：选A。A。细节理解题。由第五段可知，在Zaatari难民营中，在校大学生9,500人中有百分之五的学生生活在这里，约为475人，故选A。

4.It is implied in the last sentence that in order to survive___________.

A the refugees have to leave the camp

B the refugees have to find other ways

C the refugees are forced to leave

D the refugees feel it difficult to live there

解析：选B。B。推理判断题。由最后一段可知，有包括联合国难民所，世界粮食组织等在内的多种组织在帮助叙利亚难民，但是这些帮助远远不够，难民们不得不作出艰难的选择，这里的艰难选择应是指找到其它的出路。

5.Which of the following did the reporter pay more attention to in this report?

A The living condition of the refugees.

B How Syrians fled to the refugee camp.

C Education of the young.

D How to help the refugees in the camp.

解析：选C。C。作者意图题。本文作者在报道难民艰难的生活时，重点关注了年轻人的教育，从儿童到大学生都重点提到，故C为最佳选项。