It is nice to know what the weather will be like when we plan a trip. Do you know anything about the history of weather? Don’t look at the sky. Don’t look for old weather reports. Looking at the tree rings is more important. Correct weather reports date back only one century, but some trees can provide an exact record of weather even further back.
It is natural that a tree would grow best in a climate with plenty of sunlight and rainfall. It is also expected that little sunlight or rainfall would reduce the growth of a tree. The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk. To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside. If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred. If the rings are close together, then the climate was bad for the tree.
Studying trees is important not only for the history of weather, but also for the history of man. In an area of New Mexico you can find only sand — no trees or people. However, many centuries ago a large population lived there. They left suddenly. Why?
A scientist studied the pattern of the rings of dead trees that had grown there. He made up his mind that the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees. Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings. So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move.
In this example studying tree rings uncovered an exciting fact about the history of man.
【小題1】We can find out the weather of five years ago by counting the rings of a tree trunk ____.

A．from the left to the right
B．from the right to the left
C．from the inside to the outside
D．from the outside to the inside
【小題2】If the ring was far from the others, we can conclude that the weather of that year was ______.
A．bad B．sunny C．favorable D．rainy
【小題3】By studying the rings of dead trees in an area of New Mexico, the scientist found _______.
A．why the people had to leave
B．where the people had to go
C．what the people had to eat
D．how the people left
【小題4】The ancient people usually lived where there were plenty of trees mainly because ______.
A．trees provided an exact record of weather for research
B．trees could supply them with fruit and food to live on
C．trees could supply them with shades
D．trees were materials for fires and buildings
【小題5】By giving the example of an area of New Mexico, the author tries to prove        .
A．trees can’t live in the area without population
B．that studying trees is important for the history of man and weather.
C．what the real relation is between tree rings and the history of man and weather
D．the history of man is important for the history of trees


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】A
【小題4】D
【小題5】B

解析試題分析：你知道天氣的歷史嗎？由于樹木的生長依靠陽光和水分，通過觀察樹木的年輪，我們可以了解到當(dāng)?shù)氐奶崽鞖鉅顩r。而且，觀察樹木的年輪不僅可以了解天氣，還可以了解人類的歷史。
【小題1】根據(jù)第二段“To find out the weather of ten years ago, you can count the rings of a tree trunk from the outside to the inside.”可知，從外向里觀察樹木的年輪，如果年輪之間間隔較大，說明陽光、水分充足，故選D。
【小題2】根據(jù)第二段“The change from a favorable to an unfavorable climate can be found out by the reading pattern of rings in a tree trunk. ...If the tenth ring is far from the other rings, then it is certain that plenty of sunny and rainy weather occurred.”可知，年輪之間間隔距離較大，說明樹木生長環(huán)境較好，陽光、水分充足，故選C。
【小題3】根據(jù)第四段“the people had to leave because they had cut down all the trees. ...So, after the people destroyed the trees, they had to move.”可知，通過研究樹木，科學(xué)家找到了當(dāng)?shù)厝穗x開那里的原因，故選A。
【小題4】根據(jù)第三地“Trees were necessary to make fires and buildings.”可知，樹木是生活和建造房屋的原材料，古時(shí)候的人們通常生活在又很多樹木的地方，故選D。
【小題5】根據(jù)第三段“Studying trees is important not only for the history of weather, but also for the history of man.”可知，研究樹木不僅可以了解當(dāng)時(shí)的天氣狀況，還能了解人類的歷史，作者通過舉例來驗(yàn)證這個(gè)道理，故選B。
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