背景知識：干旱通常指淡水總量少，不足以滿足人的生存和經(jīng)濟發(fā)展的氣候現(xiàn)象，一般是長期的現(xiàn)象，干旱從古至今都是人類面臨的主要自然災(zāi)害。即使在科學(xué)技術(shù)如此發(fā)達的今天，它造成的災(zāi)難性后果仍然比比皆是。尤其值得注意的是，隨著人類的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展和人口膨脹，水資源短缺現(xiàn)象日趨嚴(yán)重，這也直接導(dǎo)致了干旱地區(qū)的擴大與干旱化程度的加重，干旱化趨勢已成為全球關(guān)注的問題。

拓展閱讀：

My family and I lived across the street from Southway Park since I was four years old. Then just last year they city put a chain link fence around the park and started bulldozing (用推土機推平) the trees and grass to make way for a new apartment complex. When I saw the fence and bulldozers, I asked myself, “Why don’t they just leave it alone?”

Looking back, I think what sentenced the part to oblivion (別遺忘) was the drought (旱災(zāi)) we had about four years ago. Up until then, Southway Park was a nice green park with plenty of trees and a public swimming pool. My friends and I rollerskated on the sidewalks, climbed the trees, and swam in the pool all the years I was growing up. The park was almost like my own yard. Then the summer I was fifteen the drought came and things changed.

There had been almost no rain at all that year. The city stopped watering the park grass. Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert. Leaves fell off the park tress, and pretty soon the trees started dying, too. Next, the park swimming pool was closed. The city cut down on the work force that kept the park, and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.

As the drought lasted into the fall, the park got worse every month. The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass. Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck. People said drugs were being sold or traded there now. The park had gotten scary, and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.

The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal, that is, everything but the park. It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way. Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to “redevelop” certain worn-out areas of the city. It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park, sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.

The chain-link fencing and the bulldozers did their work. Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings. Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction. The neighborhood has changed without the park. The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now. Things will never be the same again. Sometimes I wonder, though, what changes another drought would make in the way things are today.

客觀題：

1. How did the writer feel when he saw the fence and bulldozers?
A. Scared. B. Confused. C. Upset. D. Curious.

2. Why was the writer told not to go to the park by his mother?
A. It was being rebuilt. B. It was dangerous.
C. It because crowded. D. It had turned into a desert.

3. According to the writer, what eventually brought about the disappearance of the park?
A. The drought. B. The crime.
C. The beggars and the rubbish. D. The decisions of the city.

4. The last sentence of the passage implies that if another drought came, ______.
A. the situation would be much worse
B. people would have to desert their homes
C. the city would be fully prepared in advance
D. the city would have to redevelop the neighborhood

參考答案：

1、答案：C
解析：推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一段敘述了解到作者從四歲開始住在Southway Park對面。從第二段了解到作者小時候和朋友在公園里玩耍。而現(xiàn)在公園被圍了起來，事實上，作者是很失望、沮喪，自己不能去玩了，而且樹都被砍掉了。
2、答案：B
解析：推理判斷題。仔細閱讀第四段，可以了解到，公園被廢棄了，里面住著流浪漢，甚至有人販毒，所以母親叮囑我們不要去那里，因為危險。
3、答案：D
解析：推理判斷題。從第五段，可以明顯的了解到：干旱結(jié)束了，但是政府仍然對公園不管不問，而是要重新規(guī)劃這塊廢棄地，在作者眼中是“the city had planned to get rid of the park”。故選擇D。
4、答案：A
解析：推理判斷題。最后一段作者描述了目前自己居住的街道的變化，變得更加擁擠了。從而作者有了另一種思考：如果再來一次干旱，是否會造成如這次干旱一樣的一些變化。從而可推測作者是隱射，環(huán)境會變的更加糟糕。