【精品】（浙江省专用）2011届高三英语二轮专题复习 专题四 IB自选模块综合练（二）（教师版）.DOCVIP

综合练(二) 题号：05 阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。 In the future，large greenhouses could use sea water to grow crops.That，together with solar power plants，will provide food，fresh water and clean energy in deserts. This is a project run by a team of British engineers called the Sahara Forest Project.It will marry huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP)．CSP uses mirrors to focus the sun’s rays and turn them into heat and electricity.① Demonstration(示范)plants are already running in some Middle East countries. Plants cannot grow in deserts because of the extreme temperatures and lack of nutrients(营养物)and water.Charlie Paton，one of the Sahara Forest team members，said his technology was a way to change such environments. Paton said，“② ” Above a certain temperature，the amount of water lost through the holes in its leaves gets so large that a plant will shut down photosynthesis(光合作用)and cannot grow. The greenhouses work by using the solar farm to power sea water evaporators(蒸发器)and then pump the damp，cool air through the greenhouses.③ At the other end of the greenhouses from the evaporators，the water vapour is cooled.Some of this fresh water is used to water the crops，while the rest can be used to clean the solar mirrors. “So we’ve got conditions in the greenhouses of high humidity(湿度)and lower temperature，”said Paton.“The crops sitting in this conditions can grow well.” The designers said that any vegetable could be grown in the greenhouses，depending on the conditions at which it is maintained(保持)．④ The nutrients to grow the plants could come from local seaweed. The cost of the Sahara Forest Project could be relatively low since both CSP and sea water greenhouses are technologies which have been proved energy-saving.The designers said that building 5,000 square metres of greenhouses together with a 10MW CSP would cost around 845 million yuan.Paton said groups in countries across the Middle East have shown interest in the possibility of supporting demonstration proj