China and India Dominate the Greening of Earth
Over the last two decades, the Earth has seen an increase in foliage (植物) around the planet, measured in average leaf area per year on plants and trees. Data from NASA satellites shows that China and India -- two ___41___ economies with the world's biggest populations -- are ___42___ the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ___43___ tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.
Researchers from Boston University found that global green leaf area has increased by five percent since the early 2000s, an area ___44___ to the entire Amazon rainforest. The study was also published in the journal Nature Sustainability on February 11. It revealed that at least 25 percent of the global foliage ___45___ this century came in China.
\and India ___46___ one-third of the greening, but contain only nine percent of the planet's land area covered in vegetation,\said lead author Chi Chen of Boston University. \
degradation(退化) in populous countries from ___47___.\
China's ___48___ contribution to the global greening trend came in large part from programs to conserve and expand forests, accounting for about 42 percent of the greening contribution. These programs were developed in an effort to ___49___ the effects of air pollution, soil erosion and climate change.
Another 32 percent of the greening change in China, and 82 percent in India, resulted from intensive ____50____ of food crops. The land area used to grow crops in China and India has not changed much since the early 2000s. Yet both countries have greatly increased annual total green leaf area and food production in order to ____51____ large populations.
Rama Nemani, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, saw a(n) ____52____ message in the new findings. \people realize there is a problem, they tend to fix it,\around vegetation loss was not good. In the 1990s, people realized it, and today things have improved. Humans are ____53____ resilient (复原快的，适应力强的). That's what
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we see in the satellite data.\
____54____, the researchers rang bells as well. They pointed out that the gain in global greenness did not ____55____ make up for the loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions like Brazil and Indonesia. 41. A. emerging intruding 42. A. imposing 43. A. fertile ambitious 44. A. distant resistant 45. A. expansion correction 46. A. account for of
47. A. over-reaction over-explanation 48. A. considerate irregular 49. A. forbid 50. A. cultivation 51. A. cut 52. A. secret 53. A. continuously obviously 54. A. Moreover Therefore
55. A. necessarily thoroughly
【答案】41. A 42. C 43. D 44. B 45. A 46. A 47. B 48. B 49.
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B. declining C. stimulating D.
B. contributing B. extreme
C. leading C. harmonious
D. creating D.
B. equivalent C. relevant D.
B. substitution C. innovation D.
B. take in C. stand for D. consist
B. over-exploitation C. over-generation D.
B. tremendous C. magnificent D.
B. investigate B. demand B. employ B. brief B. incredibly
C. boost C. destruction C. feed C. urgent C. initially
D. reduce D. supply D. treat D. positive D.
B. Meanwhile C. However D.
B. generally C. fortunately D.
D 50. A 51. C 52. D 53. B 54. C 55. A 【解析】 【分析】
本文是一篇新闻报道。研究表明，在过去的20年里，地球上的植物和树木每年都在增加。其中中国和印度增加的绿化面积最多。 【41题详解】
考查动词。A. emerging形成，显露；B. declining下降。衰退；C. stimulating刺激，激励；D. intruding把……强加，闯入。美国国家航空航天局(NASA)卫星数据显示，中国和印度这两个人口最多的新兴经济体正引领着陆地绿化的增长。结合句意可知答案为A。 【42题详解】
考查动词。A. imposing利用，欺骗；B. contributing捐献；C. leading引领；D. creating创造。美国国家航空航天局(NASA)卫星数据显示，中国和印度这两个人口最多的新兴经济体正引领着陆地绿化的增长。结合句意可知答案为C。 【43题详解】
考查形容词。A. fertile富饶的；B. extreme极度的；C. harmonious和谐的；D. ambitious有雄心的。这种影响主要来自中国雄心勃勃的植树计划和两国的集约化农业。结合句意可知答案为D。 【44题详解】
考查形容词。A. distant遥远的；B. equivalent等价的，相等的；C. relevant相关的；D. resistant抵抗的。波士顿大学的研究人员发现，自本世纪初以来，全球绿叶面积增加了5%，相当于整个亚马逊雨林的面积。答案为B。 【45题详解】
考查名词。A. expansion膨胀；B. substitution代替；C. innovation创新，革新；D. correction改正，修改。报告显示，本世纪全球植物增加的至少25%来自中国。答案为A。 【46题详解】
考查动词词组。A. account for（比例）占；B. take in吸收，欺骗；C. stand for代表；D. consist of由……组成。“中国和印度的绿化面积占全球的三分之一，但植被只占地球陆地面积的9%，”波士顿大学的陈驰(Chi Chen)说。答案为A。 【47题详解】
考查名词。A. over-reaction反应过度；B. over-exploitation过度开发；C. over-generation
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过度衍生；D. over-explanation过多解释。这是一个令人惊讶的发现，考虑到人口大国因过度开发而导致土地退化的普遍观点。答案为B。 【48题详解】
考查形容词。A. considerate体贴的；B. tremendous极大的；C. magnificent宏伟的；D. irregular不规则的。中国对全球绿化趋势的巨大贡献，很大程度上来自于森林保护和扩大，约占全球绿化贡献的42%。答案为B。 【49题详解】
考查动词。A. forbid禁止；B. investigate调查；C. boost促进；D. reduce减少。这些项目是为了减少空气污染、土壤侵蚀和气候变化的影响而制定的。答案为D。 【50题详解】
考查名词。A. cultivation培养，耕作；B. demand要求；C. destruction破坏，毁灭；D. supply供给。中国和印度分别有32%和82%的绿化变化是由于粮食作物的集约种植。答案为A。 51题详解】
考查动词。A. cut切割；B. employ雇佣；C. feed喂养；D. treat治疗，对待。然而，为了养活庞大的人口，两国都大大增加了每年的绿叶面积和粮食产量。答案为C符合题意。故选C。
【【52题详解】 积极的信息。故选D。 【53题详解】 B。
【54题详解】 【55题详解】
考查名词。A. secret秘密的；B. brief简短的；C. urgent紧急的；D. positive积极的。美国宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的研究科学家拉玛·内马尼(Rama Nemani)从这些新发现中看到了
考查副词。A. continuously连续不断地；B. incredibly难以置信地；C. initially最初；D. obviously明显地。人类具有难以置信的适应力。这就是我们在卫星数据中看到的。故选
考查副词。A. Moreover另外，此外；B. Meanwhile与此同时；C. However然而；D. Therefore因此。然而，研究人员也敲响了警钟。前后是一种转折关系，故选C。
考查副词。A. necessarily必要地；B. generally通常，普遍地；C. fortunately幸运地；D. thoroughly彻底地。他们指出，全球绿化的增加并不一定能弥补巴西和印度尼西亚等热带
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