江苏学位英语阅读理解模拟试题五.pdfVIP

? ? 价格最低，师资最强，课时最长，错过就是过错！? 江苏学位英语阅读理解模拟试题五 31 省市学位英语网特别提示各位学员： 请同学们在听完讲课或者掌握了答题方法后再做练习,你会觉得英语很容易。 一定要认真做作业，动手能力和举一反三的能力，是衡量一个人素质的重要因素，也是掌 握好英语的关键。 Passage 1 Trees are useful to man in three important ways; they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts 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 make money from tress, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new tress. So the forests slowly disappear. This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil—allowing the rain to sink in –and also bind the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert. Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced with floods and starvation. 1. What is the most important service of trees to man according to the passage? A. They help him make money. B. They give him wood and other products. C. They help him prevent droughts and floods. D. They give him shade. 2. Why do forests in many parts of the world slowly disappear? A. New trees are not looked after properly. B. Many trees have been cut down by