2015—2016学年下期息县三高高一第二次月考 英语试题 听力略 第一部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列短文 ，从每题所给的四个选项 （A、B、C和D ）中选出最佳选项 ，并在 答题卡上将该项涂黑 A Scientists are trying to make the deserts 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 desert in time . Why is more and more land becoming desert ? Scientists think that people make deserts . People are doing bad things to the earth . Some places on the earth don't get much rain . But they still don't become deserts . This is because some green plants are growing there . Small green plants and grass are very important to dry places . Plants don't let the sun make the earth even drier . Plants do not let the wind blow the dirt away. When a bit of rain falls , the plants hold the water . Without plants , the land can become desert more easily . 21 . Deserts . A never have any plants or animals in them B . can all be turned into good land before long C . are becoming smaller and smaller D . get very little rain 22 . Small green plants are very important to dry places because A . they don't let the sun make the earth even drier B . they don't C. they hold water D . let the All wind blow of the the soil above away 23 . Land is A . B C . becoming desert little plants can't grow there is people haven't done what by little there not scientists because __ enough wish them rain to do D . scientists know l ittle about the deserts 24 . Which is the main idea of the first paragraph ? A . Scientists know how to change desert into good land . B . Land is becoming desert faster than scientists can change it back into good land , people can live and grow C . If scientists can bring water to desert food there D . More and more places are becoming dese
