Question

  The European beech on Central Park's Cherry Hill is 100 years old. It is a tree that is 1        by the tourists passing in horsedrawn carriages and only birds and 2        squirrels could love.

  However,one day it became the center of 3      it was chosen by New York City offi?cials as the first of 25 "historical" trees to be 4       . Last year,New York City officials 5       a plan to add a million 6        trees to streets,parks and public spaces over the next 7       .

  Agriculture students from a Queens high school reached to upper branches of the 60-foot tree and 8       6-to-12-inch branches. Those branches will be sent to a 9       tree nursery in eastern Oregon. If all goes well,the genetic copies will be sent 10        in two years for replanting.

  "We want to 11        people's idea that New York has only skyscrapers and sidewalks," Parks Commissioner Adrian Benape said. "There are many 12        trees in New York."

The target trees include nine different 13       ,All the trees were selected by foresters for having 14        for at least a century ―either as the urban landscape or as having 15        signifi?cance to local communities.

  Among those are what may be the city's 16        tree,the St. Nicholas elm—also known as "the dinosaur" ―in upper Manhattan,which George Washington is said to have walked 17        during the American Revolution,230 years ago.

"They have withstood the test of time and the 18        life," said Benape. "As a result these trees tend to be hardy species,19 disease resistant. The trees are so 20        that people are looking to clone them. They are a great reaffirmation of the importance of nature in New York City."

(   ) 1. A. known   B. ignored   C. unknown   D. unnoticed

(   ) 2. A. clever   B. lazy   C. hungry   D. diligent

(   ) 3. A. city   B. attention   C. tourism   D. attraction

(   ) 4. A. cloned   B. planted   C. created   D. discovered

(   ) 5. A. announced   B. declared   C. commanded   D. refused

(   ) 6. A. big   B. new   C. young   D. small

(   ) 7. A. year   B. century   C. decade   D. month

(   ) 8. A. cut away   B. cut down   C. cut up   D. cut off

(   ) 9. A. natural   B. garden   C. farming   D. scientific

(   ) 10. A. abroad   B. away   C. back   D. out

(   ) 11. A. explain   B. change   C. express   D. hold

(   ) 12. A. historical   B. large   C. fresh   D. beautiful

(   ) 13. A. species   B. trees   C. flowers   D. plants

(   ) 14. A. developed   B. existed   C. appeared   D. disappeared

(   ) 15. A. attractive   B. splendid   C. special   D. ordinary

(   ) 16. A. best   B. longest   C. youngest   D. oldest

(   ) 17. A. beyond   B. over   C. above   D. under

(   ) 18. A. social   B. rural   C. urban   D. difficult

(   ) 19. A. carefully   B. naturally   C. freely   D. especially

(   ) 20. A. good   B. attractive   C. beautiful   D. important

Answer 1

1-5  DCBAA   6-10 BCDDC 

11-15  BAABC   16 -20 DDCBA

美國最大城市紐約打算"克隆"一些長壽樹木的基因，形成長壽樹陰，以改變城市環(huán)境中因污染導(dǎo)致樹木短壽的狀況。

1. D游客因坐在馬車中經(jīng)過而沒有注意到。

2. C只有鳥及饑餓的松鼠喜歡那種樹。

3. B由下文"it was chosen by New York City officials as the first of 25 ' historical' trees to be cloned"可知，The European beech成為了the center of attention .

4. A to be cloned"將被克隆"。

5. A announce a plan"宣布一個計劃"。

6. B在街道、公園及公共場所添加新樹。

7. C over the next decade在"今后的十年間"。

8. D cutoff從樹上"砍下來"，符合題意。

cut away"切，剪掉"，有把剪下的東西棄之不要的含義；cut down意為"砍倒"；cut up"切碎"，均不合題意。

9. D這里是指對樹木栽培進(jìn)行科學(xué)研究的苗圃。

10. C這里指返回去將樹苗重新栽種。

11. B改變?nèi)藗儗�紐約的固有看法。

12. A上文說到克隆"historical" trees ,下文又提到了George Washington在下面走過的樹。故此處應(yīng)為historical   

13. A這里指九個樹種。

14. B所有被選擇的樹至少有一百年的樹齡。

15. C與"the urban landscape"相對,用special 最佳。

16. D最古老的樹。

17. D George Washington在樹下走過。

18. C根據(jù)上下文，這里是指城市生活。

19. B naturally"表現(xiàn)自然地，順理成章地，自然而然"；disease resistant "對疾病有抵抗力的"，正好與之搭配。

20. A由上文"these trees tend to be hardy spe?cies,naturally disease resistant"可知，這些樹如此之好，以至于人們期待著克隆它們。