单选题 The world's rainforests cover less than ten percent of the earth's surface, but contain over forty percent of all plant and animal species. The biggest rainforest is in South America, it's called the Amazon.
Amazon is by far the largest remaining rainforest area left on our planet. It's about 6 to 7 million square kilometers. It's about two-thirds the size of the United States including Alaska. It's enormous. Sixty percent of it is in Brazil, but the rainforest also extends into Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana and Surinam. And amazingly each year the Amazon provides twenty percent of the world's fresh water. Here you can find at least 60-70 thousand plant species and at least 3 thousand species of fresh water fish. And more monkeys than you find anywhere else on earth. In Brazil alone nine new species of monkeys have been identified over the last year.
But many of those species, known and unknown, are destroyed every day. Moreover, constant logging, mining and raising domestic animals cause a gradual disappearance of the Amazon jungles.

单选题 Over forty percent of all plant and animal species on the earth live in ______.
A. the sea B. the rainforests
C. the grassland D. the desert
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问地球上40%以上的动植物生活在何地。本题答案可以从文中首段首句中得出,选项B(雨林)为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项A(海洋中)、C(草原)和D(沙漠)都未在文中提及,因此不难排除。
单选题 It is said in the passage that the Amazon lies in ______.
A. South America B. North America
C. South Africa D. North Africa
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问根据本文,亚马逊位于哪个大洲。本题答案可以从文中首段末句得出;当然也可根据常识判断亚马逊位于南美洲,选项A为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项B(北美洲)、C(南非)和D(北非)都未在文中提及,均可排除。
单选题 How many new species of monkeys have been identified in Brazil alone over the last year?
A. Eight. B. Nine. C. Ten. D. Eleven.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】事实细节题。本题询问去年只在巴西一国就新发现多少种猴子。本题答案可以从文章第二段末句得出。选项B为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项A(8种)、C(10种)和D(11种)都与文中事实相悖,均可排除。
单选题 The word "constant" (Line 1, Para. 3) means ______.
A. frequent B. gradual C. continuous D. quick
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】词汇题。题目询问constant(位于第三段首行)的意思是什么。词汇题一般可以根据句意和上下文推断出正确答案。因为“无休止的伐木、采矿和畜牧业导致了亚马逊丛林的逐渐消失”,所以选项C(持续的,不停的)为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项A(频繁的)、B(逐渐的)和D(快速的),这三项都不能准确描述伐木、采矿和畜牧业的无休止状态。因此都应予以排除。
单选题 What is NOT the cause of the gradual disappearance of the Amazon jungles, according to the passage?
A. Mining. B. Constant logging.
C. Raising domestic animals. D. Producing cars.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】推理判断题。题目询问根据文章,哪一个因素并未导致亚马逊丛林逐渐消失。根据第三段末句,可以得出选项D(汽车产业)为正确答案。
[避错指南] 选项A(采矿)、B(无休止的伐木)和C(畜牧业)都是导致亚马逊丛林逐渐消失的元凶。