Through analyzing theoretically the temperature effect of the optical-fiber Raman backscattering,a distributed temperature sensor is designed based on the single-mode fiber. Demodulation methods of temperature transduction are compared,and then the demodulation method using the ratio of the anti-Stokes and the Stokes Raman backscattering intensity is adopted. Both the hardware composition and the software realization of the system are introduced in detail. The experiment shows that the distinguishing ability of the temperature and that of the space are 1℃ and 2m,respectively,and that the system response time is about 180 s with a sensing range of 5km and with a temperature measurement range of 0-100℃.