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Reading Comprehension

Directions：

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points)

Text 4

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of the wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.

In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires—nearly double the percentage it spend on such efforts 20 years ago. In effect, fewer federal finds todays are going towards the agency’s other work—such as forest conservations, watershed and cultural resources management, and infrastructure upkeep — that affect the lives of all Americans.

Another nationwide concern is whether public front other agencies are going into construction in fire — prone districts. As Moritz puts it ,how often are federal dollors building homes are likely to be lost to a widefire?

“It’s already a huge problem from a public expenditure persperctive for the whole country,”he says “We need to take a manifying glass to that. Like, “Wait a minitues, is this Ok?” Do we want instead to redirect those funds to concertrate on lower—hazardparts of the landscape?”

Such a view would require a corresponding shift in the way US society today views fires, researchers say.

For one thing, conversation about wildfires needs to be more inclusive. Over the past decade, the focus has been on climate change —how the warning of the Earth from greenhouse gases is leading to conditions that worsen fires.

While climate is a key element, Moritz says, it shouldn’t come at the expense of the rest of the equation.

“ The human system and landscapes we live on are linked, and the interactions go boths ways,” he says. Falling to recognize that, he notes, leads to “ an overly simplified view of what the solutions might be. Our perception of the problem and of what the solution is becomes very limited.”

At the same time , people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity, says Proffesor Balch at the University of Colorado. But acknowledging fire’s inevitable presence in human life is an attitude crucial to developing for the laws, politics, and practices that make it as safe as possible, she says .

“We’re disconnected ourselves from living with fire,” Balch says ,” It is really important to understand and try and trease out what is the human connection with the fire today .”

36. More frequency wildfires have become a national concern because in 2015 they tend to

A. cause a huge a rise of infrastructure expenditure

B. severely damaged the ecology of western states

C. consumed a record—high percentage of budget

D. exhausted unprecendented management efforts

37. Moritz calls for the use of “a magnifying glass” to

A. raise more funds for fire-prone areas

B. guarantee safer spending of public funds

C. avoid the redirection of federal money

D. find widefire—free parts of the landscape

38. While admitting that climate is a key element, Moritz notes that

A. public debates have not selected yet

B. fire—fighting conditions are improving

C. other factors should not be overlooked

D. a shift in the view of fire has taken place

39. The overly simplified view Moritz mentions is a result of falling to

A. understand the interrelation of man and nature

B. maximize the role of landscape in human life

C.explore the mechanism of the human systems

D. discover the fundamental makeup of nature

40. Professor Balch point out that fire is something man should

A. do away with

B. keep away from

C. pay a price for

D. come to terms with

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