Question

【題目】The Earth Is Getting Greener

NASA has got some good news for us. The world is a greener place today than it was 20 years ago. How does this happen? Well, it appears China and India are leading the change.

NASA researchers compared satellite data(衛(wèi)星數(shù)據(jù)) from the mid-1990s to today. They found that the whole world’s green leaf area had increased by 5% since the early 2000s. That’s about the same area as the whole Amazon rain forest. At first, the researchers were unsure what caused the large increase in greening around the planet. After further study, they found that greening was mostly in China and India.

China and India have the world’s biggest population. In the past, they were considered to have harmed the environment seriously. But the two countries have made the largest greening of the planet exist in the past twenty years.

The tree-planting programmes in both countries have made huge contributions to the whole world’s greening trend(趨勢). China has carried out the programmes to protect forests and make them larger. These programmes were developed to keep soil in place to reduce air pollution and so on. India continues to break world records in tree planting. It was reported that 800,000 Indians planted 50 million trees in one day in 2016.

The greening trend has also caused by intensive(集中的) agriculture in both countries. Both countries have greatly increased food pollution in order to feed their large populations.

However, the researchers warned that we should not be happy with the situation. Some of the natural green leaf areas in the earth are getting smaller at the same time. The gain in global greenness does not offset(抵消) the losses.

【1】How much had the whole world’s green leaf area increased since the early 2000s?

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【2】According to the passage, what has made the whole world’s greening trend happen?

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【3】Do you think the environment in Suzhou will get better? Why or why not?

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Answer 1

【答案】

【1】The whole world’s green leaf area had increased by 5% since the early 2000s.

【2】The tree-planting programmes in China and India.

【3】Yes, because both the government and we citizens in Suzhou will pay more attention to the environment.

【解析】

本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道，介紹了NASA的一個新發(fā)現(xiàn)：世界變得越來越綠了，其中最大的功臣是中國和印度。

【1】

題意：自21世紀(jì)初以來，全世界的綠化面積增加了多少？

根據(jù)原文They found that the whole world’s green leaf area had increased by 5% since the early 2000s可知，自21世紀(jì)初以來，全世界的綠化面積增加了5%。故答案為The whole world’s green leaf area had increased by 5% since the early 2000s.

【2】

題意：根據(jù)本文內(nèi)容，是什么讓整個世界發(fā)生了綠化趨勢？

根據(jù)原文The tree-planting programmes in both countries have made huge contributions to the whole world’s greening trend可知，中國和印度的植樹計(jì)劃對整個世界的綠化趨勢貢獻(xiàn)頗多。故答案為The tree-planting programmes in China and India.

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題意：你認(rèn)為蘇州的環(huán)境會變得更好嗎？理由是？

本題為主觀題，無標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案，言之有理即可。故參考答案為Yes, because both the government and we citizens in Suzhou will pay more attention to the environment.