单选题 It can be difficult to poison the Earth because the Earth is always trying to clean and renew itself. Keeping this in mind, we should generate as much waste as possible from substances such as uranium. Besides, we must include persistent poisonous chemicals such as dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) to make sure we have enough toxins to poison the Earth from the core to the outer atmosphere. Then, we must develop many different ways of putting the waste in, on, and around the Earth.
Putting these substances in the Earth is a most important step in the poisoning process. With deep-well injection, we can ensure that Earth is poisoned all the way to the core. The next best method is to bury toxins in the Earth. The toxins from dumps slowly seep into the Earth, guaranteeing that contamination will last a long time. Because there are only about 50,000 of these dumps in the United States, they should be located in areas where they will leak to the surrounding ground and surface water.
Applying pesticides and other poisons on the Earth is another part of the poisoning process. This is good for coating the Earth"s surface so that the poisons will be absorbed by plants, will seep into the ground, and will run off into surface water.
Surface water is very important to contaminate because it will transport the poisons to places that cannot be contaminated directly. Lakes are good for long-term storage of pollutants. In addition, we must use the ocean as a dumping place for as many toxins as possible. The ocean currents will help transport the pollution to places that cannot otherwise be reached.
Now make sure that the air around the Earth is polluted. Combustion and evaporation are major mechanisms for doing this. We must continuously pollute because the wind will disperse the toxins while rain washes them from the air, but this is good because a few lakes are stripped of all living animals each year from acid rain. Because the lower atmosphere can clean itself fairly easily, we must explode nuclear test bombs that shoot radioactive particles high into the upper atmosphere where they will circle the Earth for years.
So it is that easy. Just be sure to generate as many poisonous substances as possible, and be sure they are distributed in, on, and around Earth at a greater rate than where it can clean itself. By following these easy steps, we can guarantee the poisoning of Earth.

单选题 What is the tone of the writer?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 态度题。结合文章第一段“It can be difficult to poison the Earth because the Earth is...”和最后一段“So it is that easy. Just be sure to generate as many poisonous substances as possible, and be sure they are distributed in, on, and around Earth at a greater rate than where it can clean itself. By following these easy steps, we can guarantee the poisoning of Earth.”，我们可知：本文的话题是如何毒害地球。根据常识可以判断这是一篇反讽性的文章，作者通篇使用的都是反语。所以本题的正确答案为D。

单选题 In order to poison the earth, which of the following was NOT proposed in the second paragraph?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。由文章第二段“...With deep-well injection, we can ensure that Earth is poisoned all the way to the core. The next best method is to bury toxins in Earth...they should be located in areas where they will leak to the surrounding ground and surface water.”可知：毒害地球的方式有：深井注射，毒物填埋，垃圾场的分布。这与A、B、D项内容相符。C项也是毒害地球方式，但是在文章第五段才提及。所以本题的正确答案为C。

单选题 By saying "this is good" (Sentence 3, Para. 5), the writer actually means ______.

单选题 The following statements are true EXCEPT ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。由文章第五段第四句“Because the lower atmosphere can clean itself fairly easily,...”可知：低层大气层可以很容易实现自我清洁，这与A项内容不符。此外，我们还可以用排除法解题。第二段第三、四句“The next best method is to bury toxins in the Earth. The toxins from dumps slowly seep into the Earth, guaranteeing that contamination will last a long time. ”与B项内容相符；第五段前两句“Now make sure that the air around the Earth is polluted. Combustion and evaporation are major mechanisms for doing this.”与C项内容相符；第四段第一句“Surface water is very important to contaminate because it will transport the poisons to places that cannot be contaminated directly.”与D项内容相符。所以本题的正确答案为A。