首页
登录
职称英语
Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they provide him with wood
Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they provide him with wood
游客
2024-01-20
12
管理
问题
Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they provide him with wood and other products; they give him shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods.
Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important. (78) In his eagerness to make money from trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.
This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil--allowing the rain to sink in--and also bind the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls oh hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.
Two thousand years ago a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It set up the empire but, without its trees, its soil became poor and it grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces; the home country found itself faced with floods and starvation. [br] Why did the country mentioned in the passage suffer from floods and starvation?
选项
A、Because an empire was set up.
B、Because the empire fell to pieces.
C、Because it lost its trees.
D、Because too much had been spent on wars.
答案
C
解析
事实细节题,文章最后两句话提到帝国建立了,但由于没有了树林,土地变得贫瘠,最终导致洪灾和饥荒,所以选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3377827.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext](4)QueenElizabethIIissetreachanimportantmilestoneth
[originaltext](4)QueenElizabethIIissettoreachanimportantmilestone
[originaltext](4)QueenElizabethIIissettoreachanimportantmilestone
[originaltext]QueenElizabethⅡissettoreachanimportantmilestonethiswee
[originaltext]Agriculturalexpertssaycropdiversityisimportanttofeed
[originaltext](4)QueenElizabethIIissettoreachanimportantmilestone
[originaltext](4)QueenElizabethIIissettoreachanimportantmilestone
Teachingchildrentoreadwellfromthestartisthemostimportanttaskof
Teachingchildrentoreadwellfromthestartisthemostimportanttaskof
Teachingchildrentoreadwellfromthestartisthemostimportanttaskof
随机试题
[originaltext]M:Ouch,howcanthesandbesohotwhenthewater’sstillcold?
In1783,theTreatyofPariswassigned,whichindicatedtheendoftheAmeri
关于胶囊剂的叙述,错误的是()A.胶囊剂的贮存温度一般不宜超过25℃、相对湿度不
劳动者有以下四种情形之一的,用人单位不得单方面解除劳动合同:()。A.劳动者患职
在短期内,随着产量的增加,AFC会越变越小,于是AC与AVC曲线之间的垂直距离会
Windows系统中的服务程序SNMPTrap的作用是()。A.接收本地或
某工厂有甲、乙两个车间,其中甲车间有15名、乙车间有12名工人。每个车间都安排工
女性,76岁,近三天来觉腹痛腹胀,伴呕吐,无排便排气。体检:右下腹压痛,肠鸣音亢
竖向设计地面的形式中,( )由两个标高差较大的不同整平面相连接而成,在连接处一
下列方剂中,橘红、茯苓同用的方剂是( )。A.止嗽散 B.二陈汤 C.贝母
最新回复
(
0
)