题目内容
Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.
Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that the villagers? sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees their roots break the soil up—allowing the rain to sink in and also hold the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away with it the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but a worthless desert.
63. The purpose that the writer wrote this article for is ____ .
A. to tell people that trees are very useful to man
B. to warn people not to cut down trees any more
C. to warn that man mustn't destroy forests any more
D. to explain how trees help to prevent drought and floods
64. In the writer's opinion, ____ , or the forests slowly disappear.
A. measure must be taken B. people shouldn't draw benefit from the tree
C. government must realize the serious results D. unless trees never be cut down
65. According to the article we know it is ____ to prevent the forests from slowly disappearing.
A. necessary but impossible B. necessary but difficult
C. impossible and unimportant D. difficult and impossible
66. In the last two paragraphs the writer wanted to make it clear that ____ .
A. where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor
B. where there are many trees, there are fewer floods
C. where there are no trees, the land might become desert slowly
D. floods will make the land become desert
63.C。64.A。65.B。66.C。
解析:
Passage C 本文反映了乱砍乱伐树木所带来的危害,旨在告诫人们不要乱砍乱伐。
63.C。本题为主旨大意题。由全文来看,作者没把重点放在说明树的用途上,而是通过人们破坏树木所带来的危害,告诉大家不要再破坏森林了。
64.A。本题为推理判断题。作者并非不让人们砍伐树木和从中受益,而是希望政府能采取一定的措施来加以限制。
65.B。本题为推理判断题。由短文第一段可推知答案。
66.C。本题为推理判断题。这两段的首句便告诉读者没有了树木的后果。
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后1 ̄25各题所给的四个选项中, 选出一个最佳 答案。
(A)
In 1962, A Russian woman told her doctor that she could see with her fingers. 1 the doctor did not believe it 2 he saw with his own eyes. The doctor 3 her eyes with a large handkerchief and then put colored papers 4 newspapers under her hands. She was able to 5 one color from 6 and read the newspaper by 7 and feeling them. The doctor examined her many times and was 8 with the examination, so he sent 9 to Moscow, in which she was further examined by 10. Her unusual powers, in the end, were 11.
The early 12 into these unusual powers has shown that 13 man trusts only his eyes he will 14 be able to see outside the limits of time and into the 15.
1. | A. Easily | B. Certainly | C. So | D. Sometimes | [ ] |
2. | A. after | B. when | C. until | D. since | [ ] |
3. | A. opened | B. hid | C. closed | D. covered | [ ] |
4. | A. but | B. and | C. or | D. also | [ ] |
5. | A. see | B. guess | C. tell | D. think | [ ] |
6. | A. those | B. that | C. other | D. another | [ ] |
7. | A. seeing | B. singing | C. touching | D. checking | [ ] |
8. | A. satisfied | B. strict | C. busy | D. very careful | [ ] |
9. | A. him | B. them | C. her | D. it | [ ] |
10. | A. nurses | B. scientists | C. blind people | D. good teachers | [ ] |
11. | A. examined | B. believed | C. known | D. true | [ ] |
12. | A. lesson | B. examination | C. newspapers | D. research | [ ] |
13. | A. if | B. whether | C. because | D. after | [ ] |
14. | A. hardly | B. not | C. certainly | D. easily | [ ] |
15. | A. space | B. world | C. future | D. earth | [ ] |
(B)
(W=woman;P=policeman)
W: Excuse me. I want to buy an English dictionary for my daughter. could you tell me 16 to get it?
P: I think you can get it from the book shop in the center of the 17. There are all kinds of dictionaries there.
W: Thanks. But I don't know the way to the book shop. This is my 18 time to come here.
P: Oh, welcome to our city, madam. The book shop is a bit far from here. I think it's 19 to go there by bus. The No. 4 bus will take you there. The bus stop is just on the other side of the street.
W: But I want to 20 the city while I'm walking.
P: OK! Go up the road and turn right at the second 21, walk on until you reach a big bridge. Go across it and take the first turning on the left. Walk 22 the road with some flowers and trees on 23 sides. At the end of the road you'll find the book shop on your right, 24 the museum and the Bank of China. You can't miss it.
W: Oh, it's really a long 25, But it doesn't matter. I like walking. It's very kind of you, young man. Thanks a lot.
P: You're welcome.
16. | A. what | B. where | C. when | D. which | [ ] |
17. | A. shop | B. village | C. city | D. village | [ ] |
18. | A. first | B. second | C. third | D. fourth | [ ] |
19. | A. best | B. better | C. well | D. good | [ ] |
20. | A. look | B. visit | C. watch | D. travel | [ ] |
21. | A. turning | B. crossing | C. lights | D. cross | [ ] |
22. | A. on | B. slowly | C. along | D. alone | [ ] |
23. | A. all | B. both | C. each | D. every | [ ] |
24. | A. between | B. among | C. inside | D. beside | [ ] |
25. | A. road | B. street | C. way | D. path | [ ] |
完形填空
The amount of usable water has always been of great interest in the world. __1__ springs and streams sometimes means control, particularly in the __2__ areas like the desert. The control is possible even without possession of large areas of __3__ land. In the early days of the American west, gun fights were not __4__ for the water resources(资源), and laws had to be __5__ to protect the water rights of the __6__ and the use of the water resources accordingly.
__7__ is known to us all, there is not __8__ water in all places for everyone to use as much as he likes. Deciding on the __9__ of water that will be used in any particular period __10__ careful planning, so that people can manage and use water more __11__. Farmers have to change their use of or demand for water __12__ the water supply forecast(预报).
The __13__ water supply forecast is based more on the water from the__14__than from the below. Interest is __15__ in the ways to increase rainfall by man-made methods, and to get water from the winter snow on mountain __16__. With special equipment, some scientists are studying the ways in which the mountain snow can be __17__, and with the help of a repeater station, they send the __18__ data(数据)to the base station. The operator at the base station can get the data at any time by __19__ a button. In the near future, the forecast and use of water __20__ probably depend on the advance knowledge of snow on mountains, not of water underground.
(1)A.Using |
B.Holding |
C.Owning |
D.Finding |
(2)A.dry |
B.distant |
C.deserted |
D.wild |
(3)A.fine |
B.beautiful |
C.rich |
D.farming |
(4)A.unlawful |
B.unacceptable |
C.unpopular |
D.uncommon |
(5)A.made |
B.designed |
C.signed |
D.written |
(6)A.winners |
B.settlers |
C.fighters |
D.supporters |
(7)A.That |
B.It |
C.What |
D.As |
(8)A.plentiful |
B.enough |
C.any |
D.much |
(9)A.type |
B.quality |
C.amount |
D.level |
(10)A.requests |
B.requires |
C.means |
D.suggests |
(11)A.effectively |
B.easily |
C.conveniently |
D.actively |
(12)A.leading to |
B.due to |
C.owing to |
D.according to |
(13)A.correct |
B.further |
C.average |
D.early |
(14)A.clouds |
B.sky |
C.air |
D.above |
(15)A.raising |
B.rising |
C.building |
D.lasting |
(16)A.rocks |
B.tips |
C.tops |
D.trees |
(17)A.taken care of |
B.made use of |
C.piled up |
D.saved up |
(18)A.picked |
B.produced |
C.used |
D.gathered |
(19)A.touching |
B.knocking |
C.pressing |
D.turning |
(20)A.might |
B.can |
C.will |
D.should |