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第 PAGE " 页 码" 页 码 页 / 总共 NUMPAGES " 总页数 " 总页数 页 高考英语阅读专题强化练习 　　英语阅读在高考中一直占有相当大的比重，因而加强英语阅读的练习尤为重要。下面我为大家带来，欢迎同学们阅读练习。 　　原文 　　Trees are useful to man in three very important ways：they provide him wood and otherproducts;they give him shade;and they help to prevent drought干旱and floods. 　　Unfortunately，in many parts of the world，man has not realized that the third of these servicesis the most important.In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees，he has cut themdown in large numbers Two thousand years ago，a rich and powerful country cut down its treesto build warships，with which to gain itself an empire It gained the empire but，without itstrees，its soil became bare and poor.When the empire fell to pieces，the country found itselffaced by floods and starvation. 　　Even where a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees，it is difficultsometimes to make the people realize this.They cut down the trees but are too careless toplant and look after new trees So，unless the government has a good system of control，orcan educate the people，the forests slowly disappear 　　This does not only mean that there will be fewer trees.The results are even more serious：forwhere there are trees，their roots break the soil up，allowing the rain to sink in， and also bindthe soil.This prevents the soil from being washed away.But where there are no trees，therainfalls on hard ground and flows away on the surface，and this causes floods and the raincarries away the rich topsoil in which crops grow When a11 the topsoil is gone.nothingremains but worthless desert. 　　题目 　　1.Trees are useful to man mainly in three ways，the most important of which is thatthey can ____ 　　A.keep him from the hot sunshine 　　B.enable him to build warships 　　C.make him draw quick profit from them 　　D.protect him from droughts and floods 　　2.It's a great pity that ____ 　　A.man is only interested in building empires 　　B.man is eager t