阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 Looking out of the window of his Ford truck, Bob Fitzgerald sees l
英语试题 07-21
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Looking out of the window of his Ford truck, Bob Fitzgerald sees large, undesirable plants growing in the fields. _61_ (visitor) to his neighborhood in Princess Anne, Maryland _62_ (main) see dying forests and empty farmland.
Fitzgerald says the land _63_ (be) in his family for over 3 centuries. “I’d say in the next 20 years. You’re going to lose _64_ very high percentage of that land.”
The land around the Chesapeake Bay has been sinking for hundreds of years. But climate change is making things _65_ (bad). As sea level rises, salt water is entering rivers and other waterways. As a result, the ground is becoming too salty for crops _66_ (grow) on.
Maryland’s Eastern Shore is home to some of the oldest farms in North America. Fitzgerald says he has seen big changes during his life.
“You just can’t believe _67_ it’s been taking things over in the last 15 or 20 years. I can
show you land around here that people raised tomatoes on when I was a little boy. And now it’s
gone.”
Around the world, scientists warn that coastal farms are under _68_ (threaten) from rising seas and salt water. A World Bank report estimates rice production in coastal areas of Bangladesh may fall _69_ 15 percent by the year 2050. Another study found hundreds of millions of people will _70_ (force) to move inland because of rising waters.
答案
61.Visitors 62. mainly 63.has been 64. a 65. worse
66.to grow 67. how 68. threat 69. by 70. be forced
Looking out of the window of his Ford truck, Bob Fitzgerald sees large, undesirable plants growing in the fields. _61_ (visitor) to his neighborhood in Princess Anne, Maryland _62_ (main) see dying forests and empty farmland.
Fitzgerald says the land _63_ (be) in his family for over 3 centuries. “I’d say in the next 20 years. You’re going to lose _64_ very high percentage of that land.”
The land around the Chesapeake Bay has been sinking for hundreds of years. But climate change is making things _65_ (bad). As sea level rises, salt water is entering rivers and other waterways. As a result, the ground is becoming too salty for crops _66_ (grow) on.
Maryland’s Eastern Shore is home to some of the oldest farms in North America. Fitzgerald says he has seen big changes during his life.
“You just can’t believe _67_ it’s been taking things over in the last 15 or 20 years. I can
show you land around here that people raised tomatoes on when I was a little boy. And now it’s
gone.”
Around the world, scientists warn that coastal farms are under _68_ (threaten) from rising seas and salt water. A World Bank report estimates rice production in coastal areas of Bangladesh may fall _69_ 15 percent by the year 2050. Another study found hundreds of millions of people will _70_ (force) to move inland because of rising waters.
答案
61.Visitors 62. mainly 63.has been 64. a 65. worse
66.to grow 67. how 68. threat 69. by 70. be forced