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【題目】 As a report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization（聯(lián)合國糧食和農(nóng)業(yè)組織）says, 1.29 million square kilometres of forest, an area almost the same size of South Africa, have been lost from the Earth since 1990. Now the forest loses an area around the size of Panama every year. As the forest becomes smaller, many animals lose their home. Luckily, there are still some people doing their best to save forest. A Brazilian （巴西人） Sebastiao Salgado and his wife Lelia Salgado have spent about 20 years planting forest.

Sebastiao is one of the most famous Brazilian photographers. He traveled all over the world to take photos. When he finally came back home in Brazil in the 1990s, he was astonished - the forests were once full of wildlife. Now there are no trees here. So Sebastiao decided to do something about it. He believed that he could plant the forest together with his wife. And then his amazing dream began to come true. When they began to do that, all the birds and fish returned.

The couple brought the forest back by planting 4 million young trees. During the following 20 years. Sebastiao and his wife took care of the planted forest. 293 kinds of plants, 172 kinds of birds and other animals came back there. Sebastiao’s dream and hard work is a shining example of saving the nature. The couple show us how quickly the nature can recover(恢復) if we take action. As the saying goes, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is today.”

【1】Every year our forest loses an area almost the size of .

A.BrazilB.PanamaC.South AfricaD.the United States

【2】There was no wildlife in Sebastiao’s hometown in the 1990s because .

A.the weather was coldB.there was no water

C.people killed them allD.people cut down all the forests

【3】What does the underlined word “astonished” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.interested.B.bored.C.surprised.D.excited.

【4】What's the best title of the passage?

A.Never too late to start.B.Love me, love my dog.

C.You can’t have your cake and eat it.D.Think twice before you make a decision.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】C

【4】A

【解析】

本文介紹了塞巴斯蒂奧·薩爾加多（Sebastiao Salgado）和他的妻子萊莉亞·薩爾加多（Lelia Salgado）花了大約20年的時間種植森林的故事。這對夫婦種了400萬棵小樹，把森林帶回來了。他們呼吁人們從今天開始就行動起來。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“Now the forest loses an area around the size of Panama every year.”現(xiàn)在這片森林每年都會損失一個巴拿馬大小的面積。故選B。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“When he finally came back home in Brazil in the 1990s, he was astonished - the forests were once full of wildlife. Now there are no trees here.”上世紀90年代，當他終于回到巴西的家時，他很驚訝——森林里曾經(jīng)充滿了野生動物�，F(xiàn)在這里沒有樹了�？芍�，上世紀90年代塞巴斯蒂奧的家鄉(xiāng)沒有野生動物了，因為人們砍伐了所有的森林。故選D。

【3】詞意猜測題。根據(jù)“When he finally came back home in Brazil in the 1990s, he was astonished - the forests were once full of wildlife. Now there are no trees here.”上世紀90年代，當他終于回到巴西的家時，他很驚訝——森林里曾經(jīng)充滿了野生動物。現(xiàn)在這里沒有樹了�？梢酝浦�，單詞astonished應該是“驚奇的”意思（surprised）。故選C。

【4】最佳標題。根據(jù)“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is today.” 最好的植樹時間是20年前，其次是今天。因此最佳的題目應該是Never too late to start.現(xiàn)在開始還不晚。故選A。

本題的第3小題是詞義猜測題。詞義猜測題是閱讀理解中常見的一種題型，所猜測詞匯可以是生詞，也可以是熟詞新義，還可以是人稱代詞的指代內(nèi)容。詞義猜測題主要考查考生根據(jù)上下文推測詞義和語義的能力，突出考查對語境的分析和把握能力。本題可以利用上下文語境來猜測詞意。猜測任何詞義都離不開上下文，所以要借助上下文對需要猜測的詞或短語進行合乎邏輯的推測。