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  What would you think if someone proposed knocking down St Paul's Cathedral to widen the road? Or pulling down Big Ben to make way for a car park? It'd be ridiculous, right? But when it comes to devastation(毁灭)of the natural world, we aren't so easily shocked.But we should be…or we'll be in a lot of trouble!

  Nature is shrinking by the day.Ancient forests are destroyed.Wetlands are becoming dry.Woodland is disappearing, and all in the name of progress.This is bad in itself, but it's devastating for biodiversity.

  Biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals and other living things which are all interconnected.The ecological services provided by biodiversity are vital to everyday life.The air we breathe is a product of photosynthesis(光合作用)by green plants.Insects, worms and bacteria break down waste and make soils rich.And tiny organisms clean the water in rivers and seas.In fact, all life on earth exists thanks to the benefits of biodiversity.More than 90 percent of calories consumed by people worldwide are produced from 80 plant species.And 30 percent of medicines are developed from plants and animals.Maintaining a wide diversity of species in each ecosystem is necessary to preserve all living things.

  The loss of biodiversity could be devastating.“It is wrong to think that biodiversity can be reduced indefinitely without threatening humans, ” said Harvard University biologist Edward O.Wilson, known as the “father of biodiversity”.He warned, “We are about to reach a critical point beyond which biodiversity loss will become irreversible(不可挽回的).”

  But what can we do? The present problem is that the concept of biodiversity is so vague(含糊的).People might care about giant pandas, but it is much harder to excite them about the fate of tiny sea creatures which are being boiled to death in the cooling systems of power stations along coastlines.The Guardian newspaper is trying to help.It has launched the Biodiversity 100 campaign to try to convince governments around the world to take action to deal with the widespread concerns about biodiversity.This includes persuading the UK government to create a series of marine reserves to reverse the decrease in the sea life caused by industrial fishing, stopping fishing sharks by the Japanese fishermen and banning the killing of dingoes in Australia, among many other things.

  There is a lot to do.And we’ d better act quickly if we don't want to end up with a planet that can't sustain life!

(1)

The writer thinks it ________ to pull down Big Ben to make way for a car park.

[  ]

A.

unreasonable

B.

necessary

C.

difficult

D.

reasonable

(2)

The underlined sentence “Nature is shrinking by the day.” means that ________.

[  ]

A.

nature is badly polluted by humans

B.

species are becoming fewer and fewer day by day

C.

rainforests are being cut down every day

D.

nature is full of mysteries

(3)

Edward O.Wilson thinks that ________.

[  ]

A.

it doesn't matter to reduce biodiversity

B.

people have done enough to preserve biodiversity

C.

the situation of biodiversity is very serious

D.

biodiversity loss has become irreversible

(4)

When it comes to biodiversity, the present problem is that ________.

[  ]

A.

people might not clearly know what is biodiversity and what should be protected

B.

people are not aware that giant pandas are endangered

C.

people don't realize that biodiversity is vital to everyday life

D.

people hunt sea creatures for food

(5)

From the passage we can infer that ________.

[  ]

A.

plenty of marine reserves have been set up in the UK

B.

fishing sharks is illegal in Japan

C.

tiny organisms are harmful to the fish in the river

D.

killing dingoes in Australia is very common

答案:1.A;2.B;3.C;4.A;5.D;
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