What does Glaser say about the regrowth of rainforests、

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• 1Glaser made his discovery by ________.

  A.studying patches of fertile soils in the central Amazon

  B.examining pottery left over by ancient civilizations

  C.test-burning patches of trees in the central Amazon

  D.radiocarbon-dating ingredients contained in forest soils

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• 2Most rainforest soils are thin and poor because ________.

  A.the composition of the topsoil is rather unstable

  B.black carbon is washed away by heavy rains

  C.organic matter is quickly lost due to heat and rain

  D.long-term farming has exhausted the ingredients essential to plant growth

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• 3We learn from the passage that the traditional view of slash-and-burn farming is that ________.

  A.it does no harm to the topsoil of the rainforest

  B.it destroys rainforest soils

  C.it helps improve rainforest soils

  D.it diminishes the organic matter in rainforest soils

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• 4From the passage it can be inferred that ________.

  A.human activities will do grave damage to rainforests

  B.Amazon rainforest soils used to be the richest in the world

  C.farming is responsible for the destruction of the Amazon rainforests

  D.there once existed an urban civilization in the Amazon rainforests

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• 5More and more young Europeans remain single because ________.

  A.they are driven by an overwhelming sense of individualism

  B.they have entered the workforce at a much earlier age

  C.they have embraced a business culture of stability

  D.they are pessimistic about their economic future

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• 6What is said about European society in the passage、

  A.It has fostered the trend towards small families.

  B.It is getting closer to American-style capitalism.

  C.It has limited consumer choice despite a free market.

  D.It is being threatened by irresistible privatization.

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• 7According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are ________.

  A.warm and lighthearted

  B.on either side of marriage

  C.negative and gloomy

  D.healthy and wealthy

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• 8The author quotes Eppendorf to show that ________.

  A.some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom

  B.the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe

  C.some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely

  D.most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable

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