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练案[29] 选修六 Unit 4 Global warming
Ⅰ. 完形填空
“Whats all this tree-planting for?” I was asked when I began
writing about 1. B a piece of land I had bought in Somerset. The
truth is, I just love trees. And I am not 2. C . As I get older, all I
really 3. D is to plant trees, Prince Charles says in a BBC
documentary in which he is 4. A in the wood he planted on the day
Prince George was born.
There are 5. C and wonderful trees in our cities and villages.
They were planted, or self-sown, years, even centuries ago. We take
them for granted, 6. C the creatures living among them, remain in
ignorance of the 7. B trees are doing us ( cleaning the air, for
instance) and cut them down for new 8. A . Yet we keep a feeling
of 9. D for them. This may account for the 10. B the government
faced in 2010 when it sought to sell off publicly owned woods, and for
the wide support that the Woodland Trust
(a tree-protecting charity) 11. A .
Trees need 12. A , which is why I, a city-resident, bought my
Somerset woodland in 1999. At that time, climate change was already
well proved, 13. D my hopes of planting long-lived oaks and pines
gradually developed into anxiety about their 14. B . Tree diseases
new to the UK, wind, drought and flood were all 15. A against
them.
But I did not 16. D things to move so fast. The woodland is
still good, the new trees are growing like mad, but the creatures are
17. C . The rabbits have disappeared and the owl has moved. The
bees and butterflies are 18. B there but in smaller numbers. How
can this happen on land 19. C pesticides (杀虫剂)? Surely, it
indicates we need to give nature the chance to restore its own
20. D . Meanwhile, I love my wood, and so do many of its visitors.
And tree-planting has done wonders for restoring my balance town and
country.
1. A. replacing B. restoring
C. recycling D. returning
2. A. rich B. weak
C. alone D. social
3. A. apply for B. wait for
C. make for D. long for
4. A. filmed B. tracked
C. reflec