Sudan and Chad unless 2 actions are implemented, warns the institution behind the report.
“As the ready supply of healthy and productive land dries up and the population grows,
destructively intensive agriculture. The alarming 1 , which is forecast to continue as demand
for food and productive land increases, will add to the risks of conflicts such as those seen in
“To 4 the losses, the outlook suggests it is in all our interests to step back and rethink how we
are managing the pressures and the competition.” The Global Land Outlook is 5 as the most
multiple harvests and 7 use of agrochemicals have increased yields at the 8 of long-term
sustainability. If the past 20 years, agricultural production has increased threefold and the amount
points)
A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn
tonnes a year, according to a new United Nations-backed study that calls for a shift away from
competition is 3 for land within countries and globally,” said executive secretary of the UN
Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at the launch of the Global Land Outlook.
of irrigated land has doubled, notes a paper in the outlook by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of
the European commission. Over time, however, this 9 fertility and can lead to abandonment of
land and 10 desertification.
A) absorb I) limited
B) abundant J) minimize
C) billed
K) occasionally D) decline L) optimizes
E) diminishes M) rate
F) expansion N) remedial
宁波大学 2020 年博士研究生招生考试初试试题(B 卷)
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Directions: In this section, there is a passage with10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item on the Answer Sheet. (10×1=10
Text 1
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following text. You may have heard that Coca-Cola once contained an ingredient capable of sparking
G) expense O) ultimately H) intensifying
Section II Reading Comprehension
Directions: Reading the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B,C or D and darken the letter you choose on the ANSWER SHEET. (20×2=40 points)
comprehensive study of its type, mapping the interlinked impacts of urbanization, climate change,
erosion and forest loss. But the biggest factor is the 6 of industrial farming . Heavy tilling,