全国攻读工商管理硕士学位研究生入学考试英语预测试题参考答案及详细解答(1-7)
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section B
Direction:Read the following passage and then give short
answers to the five questions.Write your answers on the
Answer Sheet.
America is in no immediate danger of "running out of
water". People in the West have always been aware that
water is a precious commodity and must be conserved. In the
damp East, an excess of water led to complacency until two
factors created concern over our water supply. First, the
periods of drought from 1961 to 1966 in the Northeast
affected crop production and used up the surface and ground
water supplies. Second, attention was called to the rapid
ncreases in the rates of pollution of these waters
resulting from increased urban and industrial growth. As a
result, there is an increasing,awareness of the need for
conserving both the quantity and quality of our nations
water supplies.
Water is renewable, but it is not inexhaustible. When
used for municipal, industrial, or agricultural purposes,
it is not destroyed, but generally finds its way back into
our water supply. This used water now carries some waste
materials. These dirty waters are often dumped into large
bodies of water or are disposed of on land. In the latter
instance, evaporation concentrates some of the wastes down
into the ground water supplies. Eventually, all water
vaporates and later returns to the earth as rain or snow in
a relatively pure state.
Through this never-ending cycle, there is as much
water in this country now as there ever was.The amount,
however, does not increase. Our rapid population growth and
our rapid agricultural and industrial expansion have caused
our water needs to soar. By withdrawing water from streams
too rapidly and by depositing too much wastes too quickly,
we have in some instances upset the balance of natures
built-in renewal processes for conserving water. As a
result, some of our streams and lakes have become "wet
eserts". There is still plenty of water in them, but it is
so polluted that it supports almost no life at all.
41. What will be the consequence if water goes
through the soil?
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42. Why has our consumption of water become greater?
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43. How do human beings destroy the renewal processes?
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44. What is the passage mainly about?
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45. By saying "wet desert", what does the author
imply?
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Section B
41.To carry wastes into the ground water.
42.Because of the rapid population growt hand industrial expansion.
43.By drawing water too rapidly and by depositing too
much was tequickly.
44.The importance of water conservation
45.The water in rivers are too polluted to beused by
living things
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