Question

       While many countries in the world have seen a decline in forest resources, China has increased both the area and reserves of its forests and was listed as one of the 15 countries preserving the most area of forests by the United Nations Environment Program .Reserved man –made forests in China totaled 53.84 million hectares(公頃), the forest coverage rate being 18.21 percent .

       From 1998 to 2001, the Central Government invested 42.7 billion yuan in central and western China to protect vegetation ( 植被 ),support local farmers financially and promote projects for transforming  farmland back to forests and grassland .In 2003 ,the  Regulations on Transforming Farmlands back to Forest went into official force .The project to reforest farmland has been carried out all over the country .By 2004 ,13.33 million hectares of farmland had been reforested throughout China .Another effective measure of forest protection is the natural forest conservation program started in 1998 that stipulated a nationwide end to the cutting of trees in natural forests .

       As stipulated by the a Research Report on China’s Sustainable ( 可持續(xù)的 ) .Development Strategy on Forestry, China’s forest coverage rate is expected to reach 28 percent by 2050 with an added area of 110 million hectares of planted forest .Desertification is one of the most severe environmental problems facing China .The area of desertification, which is 2.62 million sq km or about 27 percent of China’s land area, is far beyond the nation’s total farmland. Today, although desertification has been controlled in some areas，it still is expanding at a rate of more than 3,000 sq km every year .

The State Forestry Administration has carried our a nationwide sand control program, which has three stages : the first stage aims to get basic control of desertification by 2010; the second stage aims to reduce the area of desertification every year until 2030; and the third phase aims to raise the nation's forest coverage and bring all desertification sources under effective control by the year 2050.

31．We can infer from the second paragraph that             .

        A．laws made to protect the natural forests were not so effective

        B．the government’s measures to enlarge forest coverage worked

        C．measures of protecting forest were not taken in East China

        D．the cutting of trees in natural forests was legal before 1998

32．The underlined word “ stipulated ”in paragraph two means           .

       A．increased               B．controlled                C．reduced                  D．demanded

33．We know from the third paragraph that            .

       A．forest coverage rate is lower than 28 percent at present                                            

       B．the farmland is much larger than deserts

       C．desertification area will be 2.65 million sq km in 2050

          D．the desertification has been under control

34．Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

       A．China’s progress in preserving forest is appreciated by UN.

       B．Lots of farmland and deserts have been reforested up to now.

       C．The desertification will be completely ended by the year 2030.

       D．The nationwide sand control includes three stages.

35．The passage mainly talks about                

       A．resource and environment problems facing China

       B．protection of forests and control of desertification

       C．China’s Sustainable Development Strategy on Forestry

       D．desertification sources under effective control.

Answer 1

BDACB