Trees are useful to man in three very important ways: they provide him with wood and other products, they give him shade, and they help to prevent drought and floods.

  Unfortunately, in many parts of the world man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had.

  Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became hard and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.

  Even though a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult for it to persuade the villager to see this. The villager wants wood to cook his food with, and he can earn money by making charcoal or selling wood to the townsman. He is usually too lazy or too careless to plant and look after trees. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests will slowly disappear.

  This does not only mean that the villagers? sons and grandsons have fewer trees. The results are even more serious. For where there are trees their roots break the soil up—allowing the rain to sink in and also hold the soil, thus preventing it being washed away easily, but where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor. The rain falls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, causing floods and carrying away with it the rich topsoil, in which crops grow so well. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but a worthless desert.

63. The purpose that the writer wrote this article for is ____ .

 A. to tell people that trees are very useful to man

 B. to warn people not to cut down trees any more

 C. to warn that man mustn't destroy forests any more

 D. to explain how trees help to prevent drought and floods

64. In the writer's opinion, ____ , or the forests slowly disappear.

 A. measure must be taken                      B. people shouldn't draw benefit from the tree

 C. government must realize the serious results      D. unless trees never be cut down

65. According to the article we know it is ____ to prevent the forests from slowly disappearing.

 A. necessary but impossible                    B. necessary but difficult

 C. impossible and unimportant                  D. difficult and impossible

66. In the last two paragraphs the writer wanted to make it clear that ____ .

 A. where there are no trees, the soil becomes hard and poor

 B. where there are many trees, there are fewer floods

 C. where there are no trees, the land might become desert slowly

 D. floods will make the land become desert

63.C。64.A。65.B。66.C。


解析:

Passage C 本文反映了亂砍亂伐樹木所帶來的危害,旨在告誡人們不要亂砍亂伐。

63.C。本題為主旨大意題。由全文來看,作者沒把重點放在說明樹的用途上,而是通過人們破壞樹木所帶來的危害,告訴大家不要再破壞森林了。

64.A。本題為推理判斷題。作者并非不讓人們砍伐樹木和從中受益,而是希望政府能采取一定的措施來加以限制。

65.B。本題為推理判斷題。由短文第一段可推知答案。

66.C。本題為推理判斷題。這兩段的首句便告訴讀者沒有了樹木的后果。

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