三、阅读理解
A young boy is crying because his ear hurts. Then a man comes out of the forest.
He carries some juice from a white mushroom (蘑菇). Carefully, he puts the juice into the boy’s ear. In some rainforest villages of South America, that’s how illnesses are cured (治愈)! Rainforest doctors use many kinds of plants as medicine. They have used the power of plants for thousands of years.
Today, scientists from all over the world want to learn about plant medicines. They are trying to find the secrets of the rainforest before the plants die out for good.
Now scientists travel by boat, by air, or on foot to rainforest villages. Then they spend long hours learning from the local doctors about the plants which can be used as cures.
Saving the rainforest
One US company has already found an important new medicine. It comes from a kind of plant found in the rainforests of Ecuador (厄瓜多尔). Research shows that the medicine may save kids with lung problems. So medicine companies are working to save the rainforests. When people buy medicines made from rainforest plants, part of the money may be used to help save the rainforests.
(
D
) 1. What does the underlined word “He” in paragraph 1 most probably refer to?
A. The boy’s father.
B. The boy’s teacher.
C. A rainforest scientist.
D. A rainforest doctor.
(
A
) 2. What do the first two paragraphs mainly talk about?
A. Many rainforest plants are used as medicine.
B. The rainforests in the USA are disappearing fast.
C. Local doctors can cure different kinds of diseases.
D. There are many plants in the forests of South America.
(
C
) 3. Which of the following can be put in “
”?
A. Losing the rainforest
B. Making the medicines
C. Learning from the rainforest doctors
D. Walking through the rainforest
(
B
) 4. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Rainforest plants can only cure simple illnesses like stomachaches.
B. People are trying to protect the rainforests by studying plant medicines.
C. The boy in the story was bitten by a snake and cured by plant medicines.
D. Medicine companies are not interested in rainforest plants.
(
B
) 5. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Rainforest doctors
B. Rainforest medicines
C. The medicine companies
D. The surviving rainforest
