【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 rest area, despite having only percent of the world39。s vegetated (固定植被的)area, according to the study. Forest conservation and expansion programs account for 42 percent of the increase, and another 32 percent e from intensive agriculture of food crops, NASA said. While raising their green leaf areas, China and India have also greatly increased their food production through multiple cropping practices, where a field is replanted and crops are harvested several time each year. Production of grains, vegetable, fruits and more have increased by about 35 to 40 percent since 2000 to feed their large population, NASA said. Over the past decades, China has made great efforts to green the land. In 1978, the central government launched a nationallevel forestation projectthe Three North Shelterbelt Forest Program. By the end of 2017, the forest coverage rate among the regions in the project reached percent, pared to percent 40 years ago. In a greening project, Kubuqi Desert, seventh largest in the country, has seen onethird of its area covered by vegetation during the past three decades thanks to forestation efforts.（1）What have China and India contributed to according to NASA? A.Land greening.B.Land degradation.C.Population explosion.D.Forest conservation.（2）What can we learn about multiple cropping practices? A.They turn out to be ineffective.B.They improve the food output.C.They raise the vegetated area.D.They allow planning once annually.（3）What was the forest coverage rate in 1977? A.%.B.%.C.%.D.32%.（4）How is the passage mainly developed? A.By space.B.By listing facts.C.By parison.D.By making definition.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）A（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇新聞報(bào)道,介紹了美國(guó)航天局的一項(xiàng)最新研究顯示，中國(guó)和印度是全球綠化努力的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的China and India, the world39。s two most populous countries, are primarily responsible for making the Earth greener可知,美國(guó)宇航局的研究顯示中國(guó)和印度使地球變得更綠,也就是說(shuō)中國(guó)和印度的主要貢獻(xiàn)在于土地綠化,故選A。 （2）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第三段中的China and India have also greatly increased their food production through multiple cropping practices,可知,中國(guó)和印度通過(guò)復(fù)種提高了糧食產(chǎn)量,故選B。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的By the end of 2017, the forest coverage rate among the regions in the project reached percent, pared to percent 40 years ago.可知,截至2017年底,%%,%,故選A。 （4）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的That39。s an area equivalent to the total of the Amazon rainforests.,第三段中的China is the source of a quarter of the planet39。s increase in forest area, despite having only percent of the world39。s vegetated (固定植被的)area,及第四段中的By the end of 2017, the forest coverage rate among the regions in the project reached percent, pared to percent 40 years ago.等信息可知,文中多次用數(shù)據(jù)對(duì)過(guò)去和現(xiàn)在進(jìn)行對(duì)比來(lái)顯示中國(guó)和印度是全球綠化努力的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者的,因此文章是通過(guò)對(duì)比的手法展開(kāi)的,故選C。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解和推理判斷兩個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇新聞報(bào)道，考生需要準(zhǔn)確掌握細(xì)節(jié)信息，并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。6．閱讀理解 History is full of tales of great ideas taking shape in sleeping minds。 Paul McCartney said that he awoke with the tune of Yesterday in his head, and Robert Louis Stevenson said that the idea for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde came to him in a dream. Scientists believe that the mind at night puts together bits of information in creative ways. Throughout the day your brain rarely gets a chance to stop and think. It constantly responds to a stream of challenges, from writing a report for a work deadline to remembering where you left your car keys and figuring out what to buy for dinner. Think of your brain like a web, says Russell Foster, Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford University. During the day the web is very tight, so you can only put information in a certain number of places. During sleep the web expands, and with the luxury of time, those bits of information can be put into lots of different places and make new associations. He adds that this process may help to foster the formation of new ideas. This bringing together of seemingly unrelated bits of information is vital to helping the brain think itself out of problems, says Russell Foster. Sleep seems to allow your mind to make nonobvious connections. It puts all the information from the day into a big biological theatre and forces the mind to speak to people at the back of the theatre, who you may not think you have any connection with. This is the basis of creativity connecting ideas, events and memories that wouldn39。t normally fit together. By placing volunteers into brain scanners and sending them to sleep, scientists have seen that the areas associated with emotion go into overdrive, especially while dreaming, while the areas that are responsible for logic (邏輯)are switched off. This not only explains why dreams are unbelievably randomyou can be talking to a colleague one minute and the next minute sitting in your old school classroom dressed in your nightclothes173。but also explains how the brain can put together different information.（1）In what way are the mind at night and the mind during the day different? A.The ways to receive information.B.The ways to provide information.C.The ways to process information.D.The ways to exchange information.（2）According to Russell Foster, what may bring out creativity? A.