Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Passage One?

　　Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?

　　Much of Canada’s forestry production goes towards making pulp and paper. According to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Canada supplies 34% of the world’s wood pulp and 49% of its newsprint paper. If these paper products could be produced in some other way, Canadian forests could be preserved. Recently, a possible alternative way of producing paper has been suggested by agriculturalists and environmentalists: a plant called hemp. ?

　　Hemp has been cultivated by many cultures for cet6w.com. It produces fibre which can be made into paper, fuel, oils, textiles, food, and rope. For centuries, it was essential to the economies of many countries because it was used to make the ropes and cables used on sailing ships; colonial expansion and the establishment of a world-wide trading network would not have been feasible without hemp. Nowadays, ships’ cables are usually made from wire or synthetic fibres, but scientists are now suggesting that the cultivation of hemp should be revived for the production of cet6w.com. According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees, and many environmentalists believe that the large-scale cultivation of hemp could reduce the pressure on Canada’s forests. ?

　　However, there is a problem: hemp is illegal in many countries of the world. This plant, so useful for fibre, rope, oil, fuel and textiles, is a species of cannabis, related to the plant from which marijuana is produced. In the late 1930s, a movement to ban the drug marijuana began to gather force, resulting in the eventual banning of the cultivation not only of the plant used to produce the drug, but also of the commercial fibre-producing hemp plant. In fact, marijuana cannot be produced from the hemp plant, since it contains almost no THC (the active ingredient in the drug).?In recent years, a movement for legalization have been gathering strength. It is concerned only with the hemp plant used to produce fibre; this group wants to make it legal to cultivate the plant and sell the fibre for cet6w.com production.?

　　21.Why is pulp and paper production important to Canada??

　　A) Canada needs to find a way to use all its spare wood.?

　　B) Canada publishes a lot of newspapers and books.?

　　C) Pulp and paper export is a major source of income for Canada.?

　　D) Hemp is a traditional plant of Canada.?

　　22.Why was the plant hemp essential to world-wide trade in the past??

　　A) Ships’ ropes were made from it.?

　　B) Hemp was a very profitable export.?

　　C) Hemp was used as fuel for ships.?

　　D) Hemp was used as food for sailors.?

　　23.Why do agriculturalists think that hemp would be better for paper production than trees??

　　A) It is cheaper to grow hemp than to cut down trees.?

　　B) More paper can be produced from the same area of land.?

　　C) Hemp produces higher quality paper.?

　　D) It causes less pollution of the environment.?

　　24.Why was hemp banned??

　　A) It is related to the marijuana plant.?

　　B) It can be used to produce marijuana.?

　　C) It was no longer a useful crop.?

　　D) It was destructive to the land.?

　　25.“According to its proponents, four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees.” ——What does “proponents” mean??

　　A) People who are against something.?

　　B) People who support something.?

　　C) People in charge of something.?

　　D) People who do research on something.?

　　內(nèi)容概要:?加拿大是世界上生產(chǎn)紙漿和紙制品的大國。為了保護(hù)森林資源，環(huán)境學(xué)家們提出可以種植麻，用麻纖維造紙。過去人們種植麻用以制造繩索、燃料、油類等，同樣面積的土地上種出來的麻造成的紙是樹制成紙的四倍。然而在許多國家種植麻是違法的，盡管麻植物并不能制成毒品大麻。人們正在努力使麻種植合法化。

　　21.【答案】C。?

　　【譯文】因?yàn)榧垵{和紙制品是加拿大主要的出口收入來源，所以對加拿大來說非常重要。?

　　【試題分析】細(xì)節(jié)推理題。?

　　【詳細(xì)解答】原文第一段第二句“According to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, Canada supplies 34% of the world’s wood pulp and 49% of its newsprint paper”，根據(jù)加拿大紙漿和紙制品協(xié)會(huì)的數(shù)據(jù)，加拿大提供全世界34%的木漿和49%的新聞紙，由此得知加拿大的紙漿和紙制品出口量大，是加拿大重要的收入來源，所以C)為正確答案。答案A)加拿大要想法用掉多余的木材與人們希望保護(hù)森林資源的目的正好相反，答案B)加拿大出版許多報(bào)紙和書籍在原文中并未提及，答案D)麻是加拿大的傳統(tǒng)植物與問題無關(guān)。?

　　22.【答案】A。?

　　【譯文】過去麻在世界貿(mào)易中至關(guān)重要是因?yàn)榇�用繩索就是麻制成的。?

　　【試題分析】細(xì)節(jié)考察題。?

　　【詳細(xì)解答】原文第二段第三句話“For centuries, it was essential to the economies of many countries because it was used to make the ropes and cables used on sailing ships”，幾個(gè)世紀(jì)以來，它對許多國家的經(jīng)濟(jì)來說舉足輕重是因?yàn)樗�可以用來制造纜繩，所以答案是A)。答案B)麻是利潤豐厚的出口產(chǎn)品、C)麻可以制成船用燃料、D)麻可以作水手的食物等在原文中未提及。?

　　23.【答案】B。?

　　【譯文】農(nóng)業(yè)學(xué)家認(rèn)為麻造紙比用樹木好是因?yàn)樵谕瑯用娣e土地上，種植麻造紙比種樹造紙產(chǎn)量高。?

　　【試題分析】細(xì)節(jié)考察題。?

　　【詳細(xì)解答】原文第二段最后一句話“four times as much paper can be produced from land using hemp rather than trees, and many environmentalists believe that the large-scale cultivation of hemp could reduce the pressure on Canada’s forests”意思是，環(huán)境學(xué)家據(jù)此認(rèn)為大規(guī)模種植麻將緩解加拿大森林砍伐的壓力，由此可見麻造紙的優(yōu)勢在于產(chǎn)紙量大，從而減少樹木的砍伐量，保護(hù)環(huán)境。答案A)種麻比砍樹便宜、答案C)麻造的紙質(zhì)量更好、答案D)麻較少污染環(huán)境均與原文不符。?

　　24.【答案】A。?

　　【譯文】禁止種植麻是因?yàn)槁楦�制成大麻毒品的植物種類相近。?

　　【試題分析】細(xì)節(jié)考察題。?

　　【詳細(xì)解答】原文第三段第二句話“This plant, so useful for fibre, rope, oil, fuel and textiles, is a species of cannabis, related to the plant from which marijuana is produced”說這種植物非常有用，可以制成纖維，繩索，油類，燃料和織物，但它是大麻屬的一種植物，與制成大麻毒品的植物種類相近，所以答案A)是正確答案。原文中還說麻并不能制造大麻毒品，因此答案B)麻可以制成大麻毒品明顯是錯(cuò)誤的，C)麻不再有用也與原文不符，D)麻對土地具破壞性在原文中并未提到，相反種麻可以減少樹木砍伐量，從而保護(hù)環(huán)境。?

　　25.【答案】B。?

　　【譯文】“proponent”的意思是支持者。?

　　【試題分析】詞義推測題，根據(jù)上下文猜測詞義。?

　　【詳細(xì)解答】上一句說環(huán)境學(xué)家們提議用麻代替樹木造紙，下一句說根據(jù)“proponents”的看法，用麻造紙有很大的好處，所以“proponents”肯定是支持這一建議的人。