2021年6月英语六级阅读真题及答案第2套段落匹配2.docxVIP

第 1 页 共 8 页 2021 年 6 月英语六级阅读真题及答案 第 2 套 段落匹配 Grow Plants Without Water [A]Ever since humanity began to farm our own food, weve faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend and enemy. It comes and goes without much warning, and a field of lush(茂 盛的) leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away the next. Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places. It has consequences: South Africas ongoing drought-the worst in three decades-will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year. [B]Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall. She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops. As the earths climate changes and rainfall 第 2 页 共 8 页 becomes even less predictable in some places, those answers will grow even more valuable. The type of farming Im aiming for is literally so that people can survive as its going to get more and more dry, Farrant says. [C]Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants. In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth. The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era, scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements. Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions. [D]Farrant calls them resurrection plants (复苏植物) . During months without water under a harsh sun, they wither, shrink and contract until they look like a pile of dead gray leaves. But rainfall can revive them ina matter of hours. Her time-lapse (间歇性拍摄的) videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the p