Question

 What do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?

  The forest is a whole of its own. It is full of many different living things. But even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on.

  The trees feed the forest "people" by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals from the soil and air. Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying out, making it possible for living things to live in it.

  Human beings are like the living things in the forest. We need one another in order to live. We need the farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks (售员)to sell it to us. We need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. Then, of course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others.

  We also need other human beings in another way. We need people for friendship, to talk over our problems, exchange ideas. Think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone.

  Life is a matter of giving and taking. We need to help other people as much as we need other people to help us. Think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else. You know, being a volunteer is so great!

1.According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on______.

A. the leaves of the trees                   B. water and minerals

C. the soil and air                   D. all of the above

2.It is the ________ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest.

A. birds              B. trees                 C. plants                 D. farmers

3.According to the writer, human beings are_______the forest "people".

A. like         B. dislike                C. unhappy with      D. different from

4.The writer mainly wants to tell us ________.

A. we need people for friendship

B. the forest is a whole world of its own

C. we need one another in order to live on

D. the forest is full of different living things

5.Which one is the relationship (关系) between a forest and your life?

A. We are trees in the forests.

B. We like the living things in the forest.

C. We need farmers to grow our food in the forest.

D. We are the same as the forest: we need each other to live on.

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文作者通过讲森林里的生物的生存需要依赖彼此这个道理告诉我们，人类在这世上生存也是需要互相依靠的。

1.推理判断题。根据文中The trees feed the forest "people" by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals from the soil and air可知答案为D。

2.细节理解题。根据文中Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying out, making it possible for living things to live in it 它们深深的根系把土壤连在一起，防止它变干，使生物能在森林里面生存。故选B。

3.细节理解题。根据文中Human beings are like the living things in the forest 人类就像森林里的生物一样。故选A。

4.主旨大意题。根据文中We need one another in order to live 为了生存，我们需要彼此。由此我们可以判断出作者写这篇文章是想要告诉我们想要在自然界生存，我们需要彼此的帮助。故选C。

5.推理判断题。根据文章的大意我们可以知道，作者通过讲森林里的生物的生存需要依赖彼此这个道理告诉我们，人类在这世上生存也是需要互相依靠的。故选D。

考点：科普类短文阅读。