沙漠中除了仙人掌、骆驼刺等植物外，其他的绿色植物很少，主要原因是（ ）
A．沙漠中的阳光比其他地方的阳光强烈
B．白天沙漠中的温度比其他地方高
C．沙漠中缺水
D．沙漠的空气中氧气含量太低
环境中影响生物生活的各种因素叫环境因素，分为非生物因素和生物因素．非生物因素包括：光、温度、水、空气、土壤等．生物因素是指环境中影响某种生物个体生活的其他所生物，包括同种和不同种的生物个体．水分影响生物的生长和发育，并决定植物的分布．沙漠干旱缺水，不适宜植物生长，因此植物稀少；仙人掌、骆驼刺的叶细小，可以降低植物的蒸腾作用减少水分的散失，适应干旱缺水的沙漠环境；沙漠地表水分极少，植物的根要伸到地下数米深，才可以吸收到沙漠深处的水分，因此沙漠地区植物如骆驼刺的根系非常发达，以适应干旱缺水的沙漠环境．因此沙漠中除了仙人掌、骆驼刺等植物外，其他的绿色植物很少，主要原因是沙漠中缺水．
故选C．
| While some international couriers are showing signs of exhaustion, EMS (Express Mail Service), the generic name for the courier services of post offices, seems to be finding its stride. Known as Datapost in Britain, as Chronopost in France, and as Al-Barid al-Mumtaz in Saudi Arabia, EMS is now second in the international courier business (jointly with TNT Skypack). Last year it delivered 5.6 million items, weighing less than 20 kilograms each, across borders. That and its annual growth rate of around 5 percent have worried DHL, the market leader, enough for it to counter-attack in the Courts. On October 26, a Dutch judge ruled against DHL on all three counts filed against the Dutch post office: that the three-initial name was too close to DHL’s; that the orange lines in the EMS logo were too similar to DHL’s dark red ones; and that the claim to the widest route system in the world was unfounded. DHL has threatened the Swiss post office with similar action, but it may reconsider after the Dutch ruling. EMS has some advantages over the private couriers. One is a dense ready-made network of offices, especially in Europe, the avowed target area of the private couriers. Another advantage is a long tradition of working with customs authorities. In a business where minutes count, it pays to have good friends at customs. That advantage particularly irritates the private couriers because there is no legal way to combat such unquantifiable coziness. The private courier services are also annoyed because in countries like Switzerland and Italy, where the post office is officially a monopoly, they pay it a fee. In Switzerland DHL says it pays more than SFr lm ($708,000) "to the competition" each year. In France the couriers have won a battle for exoneration. Although governments are under little pressure to keep prices artificially low, EMS is often cheaper than the private couriers, but not always. A recent test in Britain(on a domestic route)showed Datapost about halfway between the least and the most expensive, but gave it full marks for speed and service. Each national EMS is free to set its rates and follow its own rules on things like bulk discounts. The Universal Postal Union, based in Berne, determines how costs and revenues are split between sending and receiving countries, and standardizes procedures. More than 100 postal administrations have linked into the system — and more are coming, including Russia’s. That makes the feisty EMS particularly happy since its rivals have not been allowed to serve anywhere in Russia. |
The word "stride" underlined in Paragraph 1 probably means ______ .
A．advance
B．pride
C．position
D．route