Newspapers的英语阅读理解题

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Newspapers的英语阅读理解题

关于Newspapers的英语阅读理解题

阅读理解(每题3分，共45分)

短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据

短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡

相应的位置上。

Newspapers often tell us of floods in some parts of the

United States.

Nearly every year on the great central drainages heavy rains

and melting snow cause the waters to pour out the mountains

and plains, to turn brooks into torrents, and to swell quiet

streams into wild uncontrolled rivers. From Cairo to New Orleans,

and from Pittsburgh to Paducah, the cry "River rising!" is a

familiar yet fearful voice. . . When the rivers sometimes become

too high or too swift to be controlled communities are flooded,

families flee from their homes, croplands are washed out, and

transportation comes to a halt. Hunger, disease, and death follow

the wild waters.

Although given less publicity, the agricultural damage done

by the many smaller, more frequent floods usually far exceeds

the losses caused by the very grand ones. In the Central States,

ditches and drains cause the flows from spring rains and melting

snow to run far more rapidly than in the days before white men

settled on the land. Once, excess spring flood waters emptied

into lakes and swampy lands, there to be detained for slow

release into stream and rivers. Now, systematic drainage has

actually eliminated these natural reservoirs.

In the more rolling sections of the East, spring runoff was

formerly absorbed and held temporarily in the porous soils

beneath the unbroken expanse of forest. When large areas were

converted to farm use, removal of the forest and the practice of

up-and-down hill plowing deprived the soils of much of their

ability to catch and store water.

The effects of eliminating the natural forest cover are shown

in the gullied farm lands and widened stream channels found in

some densely settled areas. Partly because the stream channels

are more or less filled with material washed down from the

uplands, and partly because storm runoff has increased, the

channels are today no longer able to carry all the flow from heavy

rains. This explains why the streams overtop banks far more often

than in the days before settlement.

31. The best title for the selection would be______.

A. River Rising! River Rising!

B. Forests and Floods

C. Flooding in the U. S.

D. The Results of Flooding

32. All of the following cause floods EXCEPT______.

A. heavy rain

B. melting snow

C. increasing storm runoff

D. porous soil

33. The author states that______.

A. lakes and swamps once acted like natural reservoirs

B. up-and-down hill plowing catches and stores water

C. stream channels are the best carriers of water

D. floods are easily prevented and controlled

34. According to the selection, streams overtop their banks

partly because______.

A. material from higher land is washed into them

B. ditches and drains lead into them

C. rivers become too swift

D. snow melts more rapidly nowadays

35. The floods which are given most publicity______.

A. cause no damage

B. cause the most damage

C. cause less agricultural damage than the many smaller,

more frequent floods

D. far exceed the smaller, more frequent floods in agricultural

loss

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