题目内容：

In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year  36 .

According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a  37  one. The world will be more  38  because the population will continue to grow . The population could be  39  6 300 million, almost 2 115 million more than in 1985 .More people would move into cities, especially cities in  40  countries . Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would  41  have 15 million by then .

Food production will  42  , but not enough to feed all the people . Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,  43  most of the increase would be in countries that

 44  produce enough food for their people . Little increase is  45  in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East . Poor farming ways are 46  large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts . More farmland is  47  as cities become larger and more houses are built . 48  will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil .Many of the world’s  49  could disappear as more and more trees are cut down . Energy will continue to be a serious problem . The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010  50  . They only carried out the situation that  51  today . By changing the situation, by  52  the problems, the picture can be changed . There is  53  time for the nations of the world to work  54  a plan of action . But they warned that  55  too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success .

1.                A．learning        B．project         C．notice    D．study

 

2.                A．pleased        B．pleasant        C．safe D．blue

 

3.                A．dangerous      B．beautiful        C．crowded  D．terrible

 

4.                A．no more than    B．as many as       C．as much as D．as large as

 

5.                A．developing      B．developed      C．big  D．mountainous

 

6.                A．none          B．each           C．all   D．neither

 

7.                A．insist           B．reduce         C．increase  D．continue

 

8.                A．so             B．but            C．or   D．however

 

9.                A．already         B．hardly          C．partly    D．never

 

10.               A．wanted         B．lacked         C．founded   D．expected

 

11.               A．destroying      B．protecting      C．disturbing  D．interrupting

 

12.               A．saved          B．lost            C．discovered D．used

 

13.               A．Air pollution     B．Water pollution  C．Some diseases  D．All farmland

 

14.               A．Animals        B．plants          C．forests    D．people

 

15.               A．must be true    B．will come true   C．can’t be true  D．may be wrong

 

16.A. happens       B develops          C .exists            D. appears

17.               A．settling         B．working at      C．answering D．dealing

 

18.               A．no            B．still            C．less  D．plenty of

 

19.               A．about          B．in             C．out   D．for

 

20.               A．working        B．suggesting      C．spending  D．waiting