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     Scientists(科学家) are trying to make the deserts (沙漠) into good land again . They want to bring

water to the deserts , so people can live and grow food . They are learning a lot about the deserts . But

more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time . Scientists may not be able to change the

deserts . Scientists think that people make deserts . People are doing bad things to the earth .

    Some places on the earth don’t get very much rain . But they still don’t become desert . This is because some green plants are growing there . Small green plants and grass are very helpful to dry places . Plants

don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier . Plants don’t let the wind blow the earth away . When a

little bit of rain falls , the plants hold the water . Without plants , the land can become a desert much more

easily .

1. Why can the land become a desert ?

A. Some places don’t get very much rain

B. Plants don’t let the hot sun make the earth even drier .

C. People don’t keep the earth well

D. Scientists haven’t learnt enough about the deserts .

2. Scientists ______ to make the deserts into good land again .

A. carry water

B. grow food

C. do nothing

D. study a lot

3. Which is not true ?

A. The land never stops becoming deserts .

B. Scientists ask the people to live in the deserts and grow food there .

C. People do bad things to the earth .

D. scientists may not be able to change the deserts .

4. Why are green plants and grass helpful ?

A. They can hold the water .

B. They can stop the wind from blowing the earth away .

C. They can keep the earth wet .

D. All the above .

5. Which is the best title (题目) for the passage ?

A. The Desert Problem

B. People Make Deserts

C. Green Plants and Grass

D. The Desert , the Tree and the Water

答案

1-5 CDBDA

单项选择题
单项选择题

What’s your earliest childhood memory Can you remember learning to walk Or talk The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program Adults seldom (1) events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2) children younger than three or four (3) retain any specific, personal experiences.

A variety of explanations have been (4) by psychologists for this "childhood amnesia". One argues that the hippo-campus; the region of the brain which is (5) for forming memories, does not mature until about the age of two. But the most popular theory (6) that, since adults don’t think like children, they cannot (7) childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8) one event follows (9) as in a novel or film. But when they search through their mental (10) for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the (11) . It’s like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.

Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new (12) for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to (13) . According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else’s spoken description of their personal (14) in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15) of them into long-term memories. In other (16) , children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about (17) --Mother talking about the afternoon (18) looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Oceanz Park. Without this (19) reinforcement, says Dr. Simms, children cannot form (20) memories of their personal experiences.

Notes: childhood amnesia 儿童失忆症。

(17)()

A.him

B.their

C.it

D.them