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swer.1. “ Would you please wait for the next bus? This one is _____.”said the bus driver.A. full B. empty C. tidy D. quiet2. —Would you like some more rice? 四. Reading prehension AScientists 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 being desert all the time. Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time.Why is more and more land being desert? Scientists think that people make deserts. People are doing bad things to the earth.Some places on the earth don’t get very much rain. But they still don’t bee 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 hot sun make the earth ever drier. Plants don’t let he wind blow the dirt away. When a little bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water. Without plants, the land can bee a desert much more easily.1. Deserts .a. get very little rain b. never have any plants or animals in themc. call all be turned into good land before long d. both a and c2. Small green plants are very important to dry places because .a. they don’t let the sun make the earth ever drier b. they don’t let the wind blow the earth away c. they hold water d. all of the above3. Land is being desert little by little because .a. plants can’t grow there b. there is not enough rainc. people haven’t done what scientists wish them to dod. scientists know little about the deserts4. Which is the main idea of the first paragraph? ____.a. Scientists know how to change desert into good landb. Land is being desert faster than scientists can change it back into good landc. If scientists can bring water to desert, people can live and grow food thered. More and more places are being deserts all the time5. After telling this, we learn that ____.a. plants can keep dry land from being deserts b. it is good to get rid of grass into the desertsc. all places without much rain will bee desertsd. it is better to grow crops on dry land than to grow grassBAfter my husband and I spent a morning at the zoo with Joel, our fouryearold grandson, we stopped at a restaurant for lunch. When the waiter passed us some menus, my husband reached