首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resou
The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resou
admin
2012-11-11
166
问题
The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resources it owns, and does so badly. Often, (1) , governments act in an even more harmful way. They actually subsidize the exploitation and (2) of natural resources. A whole (3) of policies, from farm-price support to protection for coal-mining, do environmental damage and (often) (4) no economic sense. Scrapping them offers a two-fold (5) : a cleaner environment and a more efficient economy. Growth and environmentalism can actually go hand in hand, if politicians have the courage to (6) the vested interest that subsidies create.
No activity affects more of the earth’s surface than farming. It shapes a third of the planet’s land area, not (7) Antarctica, and the proportion is rising. World food output per head has risen by 4 per cent between the 1970s and 1980s mainly as a result of increases in (8) from land already in (9) , but also because more land has been brought under the plough. Higher yields have been achieved by increased irrigation, better crop breeding, and a (10) in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the 1970s and 1980s.
All these activities may have (11) environmental impacts. For example; land clearing for agriculture is the largest single (12) of deforestation; chemical fertilizers and pesticides may (13) water supplies; more intensive farming and the abandonment of fallow periods (14) exacerbate soil erosion; and the spread of monoculture and use of high-yielding varieties of crops have been accompanied by the (15) of old varieties of food plants which (16) some insurance against pests or diseases in future. Soil erosion threatens the productivity of land in both rich and poor countries. The United States, (17) the most careful measurements have been done, discovered in 1982 that about one-fifth of its farmland was losing topsoil at a rate (18) to diminish the soil’s productivity. The country subsequently (19) a program to convert 11 per cent of its cropped land to meadow or forest. Topsoil in India and China is (20) much faster than in America.
选项
A、purify
B、clean
C、dirty
D、contaminate
答案
D
解析
本题测试词义搭配。purify意为“净化,使纯净”;clean意为“清扫,使干净”;dirty意为“弄脏,变脏”,指使……不干净;contaminate意为“污染,弄脏”,指通过接触或混合使……不纯净或不洁净。句子的主语是chemical fertilizers and pesticides,所填之词的宾语是water supplies,所以应该选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/GNe4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
Britain’sCabinetOfficereleasedasweepingreportonthecountry’sfoodpolicy,anddeterminedthatBritonsarewastingtoomu
Idon’tknowifChrisisrightforthejob--hedoesn’treallypossesstheskillsthat______agoodmanager.
Whichofthefollowingcanbethebesttitleofthispassage?Thereasonwhythebraincellsofthepersonwhobothsmokesand
Bysayingthatacountry’sagriculturalsurplusesoften"complicate"itseconomy,theauthormeans______.Whydogovernmentss
Amajorreasonforconflictintheanimalworldisterritory.Themaleanimal(21)anarea.Thesizeoftheareaissufficientt
ManyAmericansregardthejurysystemasaconcreteexpressionofcrucialdemocraticvalues,includingtheprinciplesthatallc
EveryspringmigratingsalmonreturntoBritishColumbia’sriverstospawn.Andeveryspringnewreportsdetailfreshdisasters
EveryspringmigratingsalmonreturntoBritishColumbia’sriverstospawn.Andeveryspringnewreportsdetailfreshdisasters
Beautyhasalwaysbeenregardedassomethingpraiseworthy.Almosteveryonethinksattractivepeoplearehappierandhealthier,h
FormostthinkerssincetheGreekphilosophers,itwasself-evidentthatthereissomethingcalledhumannature,somethingthat
随机试题
下列哪种酶不能分解灭活GnRH?
溶血性贫血的基本机制是
证券法规定,禁止证券交易内幕信息的知情人员利用内幕信息进行证券交易活动。下列哪种信息不属于内幕信息?
2008年某小型微利企业符合减免优惠的条件,经主管税务机关核定,实现的应纳税所得额为10万元,则该小型微利企业应纳的企业所得税是()万元。
下列个人所得按“劳务报酬所得”项目缴纳个人所得税的有()。
教堂奏鸣曲
A、 B、 C、 D、 A题干组中的三个图形呈现的规律是每个小方块依次顺时针方向移动,因此答案符合该规律的只有A选项。
口号是意识的一种表现形式,适量适度、通俗易懂、提炼准确的口号,对鼓舞士气、振奋人心、推动工作会产生积极作用。今天,改革攻坚面临繁重任务,群众的拥护和支持显得______________,务须以诚心换真心、以守信换信任,让口号和行动同频共振,把每一个诺言都成
这两天,一位其貌不扬的老先生在高铁二等座上笔耕不辍的照片刷屏网络,感动无数网友。照片中,白发苍苍、脚穿旧皮鞋,专注于修改文件的老人,正是中国工程院院士、著名摄影测量与遥感专家刘先林,他今年已经78岁。网友称他为“高铁二等座最高贵乘客”,直呼“又见扫地僧”。
LanguageContextandEnglishTeachingI.Themeaningsoflanguagecontext1.Generallyspeaking:itcanbedividedintosituati
最新回复
(
0
)