大学英语四级模拟题三含答案

They want to bring water to the 三题级模拟大学英语四

deserts so that people can live and

Even so, more and more of is becoming desert all the Scientists think that deserts. People are

Part One Reading doing bad things to the earth. Some Comprehension people on the earth do not get very (2'×10 = 20')much rain. Yet, they still do not

There are 2 passages in

Directions: because This is become deserts.

this section. Each passage is plants there are some small green followed by some questions or keep growing there. Plants help unfinished statements. For each of

Plants do not the water in earth.

them there are four choices marked A), the wind blow the dirt away. Without

B), C) and D). You should decide on plants, the land can become a desert

the mark best the choice and much more easily.

corresponding letter on the Answer A man decides to make a farm in

the a Sheet with single line through a very dry place. He digs in the earth

centre.and takes away the grass and plants

Passage One

that are already growing on the dry

make to trying are Scientists land.

again.

deserts the into good land He makes a farm. He puts plants

in rows. The sun is very hot. It makes very important to dry places?

A. They keep the earth the land even drier. When the rain from becoming even drier.

comes, it runs between the row of

B. They do not let wind blow the away. dirt plants. It washes the

earth away.

When the wind comes, it blows between

C. They add good the color to the dry the rows of plants. It blows places.

dirt away. Soon the land is not good

D. They hold water.

enough for a farm any more. The man

4. It can be inferred from lets his animals eat all the plants the passage that _____________. any not the land does have Now on it.

A. it is bad to plant in rows in a dry the and on plants it. The sun wind

dry place

land and all of the good dirt away.

B. it is better to raise animals Now the land is a desert. on dry land than to make a farm desert

1.

A

is

probably

C. it is _____________.

bad to make a farm in a dry

place, but it A. grassy B. wet is good to raise animals there

C. treeless

D. muddy

D. all lands that because desert becoming Land 2. is of don't get very

much rain are deserts

lack of _____________.

5. What's the writerB. people

's purpose in A. rain

giving an example of the man? D. plants

C. wind

A. To criticize him. the following is 3. Which of the NOT

B. To tell an interesting

are

plants green small why reason

story.

but instead it faced some

embarrassing defeats. The surprises C. To prove man makes deserts.

started on the first day D. To prove the hot sun makes

of the

competitions, when Fred of Belgium a desert.