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扎兰屯一中2014-2015年度下学期高一期末考试 （英语试卷） 时间：100分钟 满分：130分 第I卷 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分50） 第一节（共题，分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。A Scientists are trying to make the deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food. They are learning a lot about the deserts. But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.  Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.  Some places on the earth dont get much rain. But they still dont become deserts. This is because some green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places. Plants dont let the sun make the earth even drier. Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can become desert more easily. 1. Deserts _____. A. get very little rain B. can all be turned into good land before long C. are becoming smaller and smaller D. never have any plants or animals in them 2. Small green plants are very important to dry places because _____. A. they dont let the sun make the earth even drier B. they dont let the wind blow the soil away C. they hold waterD.all of the above 3. Land is becoming desert little by little because _____. A. plants cant grow there B. there is not enough rain C. people are doing bad things to the earth D. scientists know little about the deserts 4. After reading this passage, we learn that _____. it is not good to grow the grass in the desertsB. plants can keep dry land from becoming desert C. all places without much rain will become deserts D. we can do nothing to stop the land becoming deserts B One afternoon when Charlie Chaplin was sitting together with his friends, talking, a fly(苍蝇) flew into the