（热）2016年12月份电大大学英语阅读理解B 考试小抄 【精编直接打印版】.docVIP

阅读理解Ｂ 1、 If you travel by air across the center of Africa or South America, you fly over forests for thousands of kilometers. These great forests are the oceans of trees. There are thousands and thousands of different kinds of plants and animals. However, the worlds forests are getting smaller all the time. We are cutting down the trees because we need wood, and we need more farmland. Some people say that there will not be any forests like these in 20 or 30 years. What will happen if they disappear? If we cut down our forests, a lot of plants and animals will disappear from the world. In a lot of places the new farmland will soon look like the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. It will not rain very often, and the weather will get very hot. Perhaps the climate of the world will change. This will be dangerous for everyone in the world. That is why we must take care of our forests. (1)、The passage mainly tells us about the importance of taking care of plants. A：T B：F ：A (2)Forests are homes for different kinds of animals. A：T B：F ：A (3)The need for more wood and more land help to protect our forests. A：T B：F ：B (4)Well have more and greater forestsn in 20 or 30 years in some peoples view. A：T B：F ：B (5)The writer thinks it necessary to protect the forests. A：T B：F ：A 2 No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon and part of it taken out. Today, however, we neednt worry about feeling pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have operation felt all its pain. Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. Soon after 1770, Josept Priestley discovered a gas which is now called laughing gas. Laughing gas became known in America. Young men and women went to parties to try it. Most of them spent their time laughing, b