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阅读理解,阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  “Eat local.” It's one way to reduce human effect on the planet.Eating local means to try to buy and consume foods that are grown in places close to home.However, most of the food sold at supermarkets is not locally grown or produced.Trucks and planes deliver these foods from hundreds or thousands of miles away.During the transportation, greenhouse(温室)gases are produced, causing global warming.So the shorter the distance your foods must travel, the less the harm is done to the environment.

  But how do you get local food if you live in a large city, hundreds of miles away from farms? Environmental health scientist Dickson Despommier and his students came up with the idea of a “vertical(垂直的)farm”.

  A vertical farm is a glass-walled structure that could be built as tall as a skyscraper(摩天大楼).Since the garden is built upwards, rather than outwards, it requires much less space than an ordinary farm.The world is quickly running out of room for ordinary farming.Vertical farms could be a key to this situation.Despommier imagines a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor.The walls of the building would be clear, to allow crops to get as much sunlight as possible.Depending on a city's water resources, Despommier thinks hydroponic(水培的)farming is another method for the vertical farm which needs no soil to grow plants.

  Despommier says the hydroponic greenhouses would use a system that would use a city's waste water and fill it with nutritions to make the crops grow.If this method works, it would provide food to a city and save millions of tons of water.

  The idea of a vertical farm has attracted the attention of government officials around the world.Scott Stringer, a government official from New York City, thinks the city is suitable for the vertical farming.“Obviously we don't have much land left for us, ” Stringer said.“But the sky is the limit in Manhattan.”

  Despommier admits that there is still a lot of work to do to make vertical farms a reality.“But I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way, ” he says.

(1)

Why are people advised to eat local?

[  ]

A.

Because it means convenience(方便)to people.

B.

Because it can help people save a lot of money.

C.

Because local food has more nutrition.

D.

Because it is environmentally friendly.

(2)

Which is one of the vertical farm's benefits when compared with ordinary farming?

[  ]

A.

It produces healthier food.

B.

It does less harm to the cities.

C.

It needs less space of the city.

D.

It requires less transport costs.

(3)

By saying “the sky is the limit in Manhattan”, Stringer means ________.

[  ]

A.

people can make full use of vertical space of Manhattan

B.

there is a limit for using empty land in Manhattan

C.

the height of buildings in Manhattan is limited

D.

Manhattan can spread as far as possible

(4)

What can we learn about the vertical farming in the passage?

[  ]

A.

No soil is needed to grow plants in a vertical farm.

B.

It has solved the problem of the food shortage in a big way.

C.

It is a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor.

D.

Crops are mainly grown in the rainwater in a vertical farm.

答案:1.D;2.D;3.A;4.A;
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请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

                                   A

Scars of Love

Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went.

He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator(短吻鳄) was getting close. The mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In great fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. From the dock, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the alligator snatched (抓住) his legs. That began an unbelievable tug-of-war (拔河比赛) between the two. The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, rushed from his truck, took aim and shot the alligator.

Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred (留下伤疤) by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother’s fingernails dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.

The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy after the trauma (外伤), asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted the pant legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, “Look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mum wouldn’t let go.”

You and I can identify with (认同) that little boy. We have scars, too. Not from an alligator, but the scars of a painful past. Some of those scars are unsightly and have caused us deep regret. But, some wounds, my friends, are because we have refused to let go.

56. The underlined part “the two” in the second paragraph refers to ______.

   A. the alligator and the mother         B. the mother and the son

C. the driver and the alligator          D. the son and the alligator

57. From the passage we can infer ________.

   A. The mother was unwilling to let the alligator go

   B. The mother was actually stronger than the alligator

   C. The son was proud of his scars on his arms

   D. The son was ashamed of his scars on his legs

58. According to the last paragraph, what is the writer’s real meaning?

   A. To forget the past is to betray.       B. We should forget the scars.

   C. Wounds are different from scars.     D. We should learn to let go sometimes.

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