2012年深圳市高三年英语二模试卷

B

While many countries in the world have seen a decline in forest resources, China has increased both the area and reserves of its forests and was listed as one of the 15 countries preserving the most area of forests by the United Nations Environment Program. Reserved man-made forests in China totaled 53.84 million hectares, the forest coverage rate being 18. 21 percent.

From 1998 to 2001, the Central Government invested 42.7 billion yuan in central and western China to protect vegetation(植被), support local farmers financially and promote projects for transforming farmland back to forests and grassland. In 2003, the Regulations on Transforming Farmlands to Forest went into official force. The project to reforest farmland has been carried out all over the country. By 2004, 13.33 million hectares of farmland had been reforested throughout China. Another effective measure of forest protection is the natural forest conservation program started in 1998 that natural forests.

As stipulated by the Research Report on China’s Sustainable(可持续的) Development Strategy on Forestry, China’s forest coverage rate is expected to reach 28 percent by 2050 with an added area of 110 million hectares of planted forest. Desertification is one of the most severe environmental problems facing China. The area of desertification, which is 2.62 million sq km or about 27 percent of China’s land area, is far beyond the nation’s total farmland. Today, although desertification has been controlled in some areas, it still is expanding at a rate of more than 3,000 sq km every year.

The State Forestry Administration has carried out a nationwide sand control program, which has three stages: the first stage aims to get basic control of desertification by 2010; the second stage aims to reduce the area of desertification every year until 2030; and the third stage aims to raise the nation’s forest coverage and bring all desertification sources under effective control by the year 2050.

31．We can infer from the second paragraph that A．the government’s measures to enlarge forest coverage worked

B．laws made to protect the natural forests were not so effective

C．measures of protecting forest were not taken in East China

D．the cutting of trees in natural forests was legal before 1998

32．The underlined word “ stipulated ” in paragraph two means .

A．increased

B．demanded

C．reduced

D．controlled