1 . In 2000 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year
_______According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2020 is not a
_______one. The world will be more
_______ because the population will continue to grow. The population could be
_______ 6, 900 million, almost 2, 450 million more than in 1995. More people would move into cities, especially cities in
_______ countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would
_______ have 15 million by then.
Food production will
_______, but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1995,
_______ most of the increase would be in countries that
_______ produce enough food for their people. Little increase is
________ in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Poor farming ways are
________ large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is
________as cities become larger and more houses are built.
________ will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s
________ could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2020
________ They only carried out the situation that
________ today. By changing the situation, by
________the problems, the picture can be changed. There is
________time for the nations of the world to work
________ a plan of action. But they warned that
________too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.
1. | A．learning | B．project | C．notice | D．study |
2. | A．pleased | B．pleasant | C．safe | D．blue |
3. | A．dangerous | B．beautiful | C．crowded | D．terrible |
4. | A．no more than | B．as many as | C．as much as | D．as large as |
5. | A．developing | B．developed | C．big | D．mountainous |
6. | A．none | B．each | C．all | D．neither |
7. | A．insist | B．reduce | C．increase | D．continue |
8. 9. | A．already | B．hardly | C．partly | D．never |
10. | A．wanted | B．lacked | C．found | D．expected |
11. | A．destroying | B．protecting | C．disturbing | D．interrupting |
12. | A．saved | B．lost | C．discovered | D．found |
13. | A．Air pollution | B．Water pollution | C．Some diseases | D．All farmland |
14. | A．animals | B．plants | C．forests | D．people |
15. | A．must be true | B．will come true | C．can't be true | D．may be wrong |
16. | A．happens | B．develops | C．exists | D．appears |
17. | A．settling | B．working out | C．answering | D．dealing |
18. | A．no | B．still | C．less | D．plenty of |
19. 20. | A．working | B．suggesting | C．spending | D．waiting |
