2013年MBA联考英语模拟卷（四）.doc

2013年MBA联考英语模拟卷（四） Section Ⅰ Use of English Directions: Read the following passage. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10points) The role of governments in environmental management is difficult but inescapable. Sometimes, the state tries to manage the resources it owns, and does so badly. Often,__1__, governments act in an even more harmful way. They actually subsidize the exploitation and __2__ of natural resources. A whole __3__ of policies, from farm-price support to protection for coal-mining, do environmental damage and (often) __4__ no economic sense. Scrapping them offers a two-fold __5__: a cleaner environment and a more efficient economy. Growth and environmentalism can actually go hand in hand, if politicians have the courage to __6__ the vested interest that subsidies create. No activity affects more of the earths surface than farming. It shapes a third of the planets land area, not __7__ Antarctica, and the proportion is rising. World food output per head has risen by 4 per cent between the 1970s and 1980s mainly as a result of increases in __8__ from land already in __9__, but also because more land has been brought under the plough. Higher yields have been achieved by increased irrigation, better crop breeding, and a __10__ in the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the 1970s and 1980s. All these activities may have __11__ environmental impacts. For example, land clearing for agriculture is the largest single __12__ of deforestation; chemical fertilizers and pesticides may __13__ water supplies; more intensive farming and the abandonment of fallow periods __14__ exacerbate soil erosion, and the spread of monoculture and use of high-yielding varieties of crops have been accompanied by the __15__ of old varieties of food plants which __16__ some insurance against pests or diseases in future. Soil erosion threatens the productivity of land in both r