四、完形填空
Many men over 50 enjoy nothing more than a bit of peace and quiet.
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it’s not like that for Wang Jiangang who instead chose to plant trees in the Gobi Desert.
Wang has everything a man could want—a successful business（事业）and a happy family. Yet his decision（决定）to plant trees in the desert has made his life quite
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.
In June 2015, Wang went to Ejine of Inner Mongolia with some partners to do a survey. On the day they arrived, a sandstorm caught them. The dark yellow
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clouded the sky. “Our cars were
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by sand and stones,” he thought back. When the sandstorm
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stopped, he found there was nothing in the desert—no road, no grass.
Wang and his partners started
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trees in the same year. For years, they couldn’t put up tents
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the heavy sandstorms. They had to drive 200 kilometres to buy machine parts, and they didn’t even have enough water. However,
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of these could make them give up.
“I’ve always hoped to do something bigger. That’s
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I decided to build greenbelts in the desert,” Wang said. Till now, Wang’s team has planted 20 666 hectares（公顷）of trees. Some have grown to 2 metres high, and a single tree can fix（固定）10 square metres of sand and
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it from being destroyed by the wind. “Trees can live up to thousands of years. They are good for our children and our children’s children,” Wang said.
(
A
) 1. A. But B. So C. And D. Or
(
B
) 2. A. unlucky B. unusual C. unimportant D. unhappy
(
A
) 3. A. sand B. storm C. wind D. stone
(
D
) 4. A. dried B. flown C. filled D. covered
(
C
) 5. A. seriously B. lately C. finally D. correctly
(
A
) 6. A. planting B. building C. searching D. cleaning
(
B
) 7. A. thanks to B. because of C. as for D. instead of
(
D
) 8. A. all B. each C. any D. none
(
C
) 9. A. when B. where C. why D. how
(
B
)10. A. cause B. prevent C. raise D. divide
