【创新设计】2015高考英语（湖南专用）大二轮总复习写作专题：专题一　阅读填空（含15命题动向）5-1.docVIP

　 Passage 1 Since the earliest civilizations，people have controlled rivers to meet societys demands.Today，rivers are controlled for many reasons，primarily to maintain reliable water supplies for daily，agricultural and industrial needs，for power generation，for navigation (航行)，and to prevent flooding. River control is achieved by channelization，a term that covers a range of river engineer in works，including widening，deepening，straightening and stabilization of banks，and by the construction of dams. An important period of channelization took place in Europe during the 19th century，when many large rivers were straightened and their beds deepened.One of the most dramatically changed was the Tisza River，a branch of the Danube that flows through Hungary.The controlling of the Tisza，designed to reduce flooding and make land for agriculture，included cutting off more than 100 meanders (河曲)，shortening the rivers length by nearly 400 kilometers. One of the most common ways in which people control rivers is by damming them.The past 50 years or so has seen an increase in dam construction worldwide，and at the beginning of the 21st century，there were about 800,000 dams globally，some towering more than 200 meters in height. Despite their successes，many dams also cause significant environmental changes that prove harmful.Some particularly deep reservoirs (水库) can bring about earthquakes due to the stress on their bottom rocks caused by huge volumes of water.Downstream of a reservoir，the river is certainly influenced in many ways：water volume，speed and quality are all affected，leading to changes in the landscape and among plants and animals. 答案　1.River control　2.Reasons　3.supply　4.agriculture　5.flooding　6.deepening　7.stabilizing　8.shortening　9.dam construction　10.the environment Passage 2 A professor of environmental health and his students began studying the idea of rooftop gardening for cities.“I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way，”said Despommier. Why w