The earth's biosphere (the surface layer of the planet and the surrounding atmosphere) provides the land, air, water, and energy necessary to sustain life. This life-support system is a complex, interdependent one in which energy from the sun is changed into food for humans. The entire system depends on the sun, reasonably moderate temperature, and enough supplies of oxygen, pure water, and fertile soil.
Since the earth's creation millions of years ago, the ecosystem has worked as an interdependent system relatively undisturbed by outside forces. But recently, especially since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have begun to disturb the balance of nature. Natural resources have been severely depleted (消耗) (forests have been destroyed, fertile land worn away, water polluted, and minerals used up), and the life-support system of air, water, and land has been poisoned by a variety of waste products and chemicals.
The degree of these problems was noted in a report by the U.N. Developing Council on Environmental Quality. This report predicted that if present trends continue, the world will be more crowded and polluted and less stable ecologically and politically than the world we live in now.
The twin problems of resource shortages and pollution are caused by three social forces.  First, the tremendous increase in population growth constantly increases the demand for food, energy, and other products. As the current population continues to increase, the stress on an already overburdened environment will be increased．A second source of the problem is the concentration of people in urban areas, where the ecosystem simply cannot absorb their waste products. Finally, environmental problems are worsened as more and more nations move toward modem development: an increased reliance on modern technology. As these nations become more technological, they will consume more energy, deplete more natural resources, and create more waste products than the biosphere can absorb.
小題1:The life-support system is composed of _____.
A．a(chǎn)ir, water and landB．the earth, the sun and energy
C．food, land and energyD．food, energy and the sun
小題2:The life-support system _____.
A．change energy from the sun into food for humans
B．depends on the sun for enough supplies of air, water and land
C．exists in the surface layer of the earth and the surrounding atmosphere
D．is a complex but independent system
小題3:The life-support system has been badly damaged by _____.
A．natural forcesB．human activitiesC．social movements D．political changes
小題4:The passage mainly talks about _____.
A．the effects of Industrial Revolution on human beings
B．the importance of life-support system to human beings
C．the significance of balance of nature
D．the destruction of life-support system and its causes

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:B
小題4:D
這是一篇環(huán)保類短文，本文講敘的是：地球的生物圈提供了一種由土地、空氣、水和能量組成的生命支持系統(tǒng)，這一系統(tǒng)將太陽能轉(zhuǎn)化為人類的食物。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章開頭前兩句，（the land, air, water, and energy necessary to sustain life）生命支持系統(tǒng)是由土地、空氣、水和能量組成的。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二、三句，（The entire system depends on the sun）生命支持系統(tǒng)是一個(gè)復(fù)雜的相互依賴的系統(tǒng)，在此系統(tǒng)中太陽能被轉(zhuǎn)化為人類的食物。
小題3:歸納概括題。在第二段中提到，尤其工業(yè)革命后，人類開始擾亂自然界的平衡，自然資源大量枯竭，主要是通過排放廢產(chǎn)品和化學(xué)物質(zhì)。所有上述行為可歸結(jié)為human activities。
小題4:主旨大意題。文章開頭先講了生命支持系統(tǒng)是什么，然后又講了由于人類行為而造成的問題以及造成這些問題的三種社會(huì)力量，所以D項(xiàng)能概括這幾層意思。
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