Forests have always been useful and important to man who make use of them in many ways. Every day trees are serving man everywhere. Trees supply man with fruits and building materials in the form of wood, without trees it would be impossible to build houses, boats, bridges and so on. Furniture such as desks, chairs and beds is made of wood, trees can stop man from terrible heat. They're also useful in preventing good and rich top soil from being washed away during heavy rains.

If there were no trees, heavy rains would wash away the rich surface soil that is so important to plants. The result is that the land will become a desert. There are plenty of desert areas in the world. A long time ago these desert areas used to be very rich areas, but man in the past had no enough knowledge about science of nature, they cut down too many trees in the area where they lived and never planted new ones. By and by the rich surface soil was blown and washed away by strong winds and heavy rains. In the end the rich land changed into useless deserts where nothing could grow.

1 . According to the passage,__________.

  A. a long time ago, man didn't know how to make use of wood

    B. trees are not as useful as they were in the past

    C. trees were more found in the past than they are today

    D. people have always found trees useful

2. Some deserts were once___________.

    A. very good lands                B. covered by ice

    C. very cold                      D. dry and useless

3. From the passage, we know that man must ________.             

    A. do nothing to keep the balance of nature

    B. do something to stop the balance of nature

    C. try his best to keep the balance of nature

    D. do his  best to stop the balance of nature

【小題1】C

【小題2】A

【小題3】C

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