湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (49)_高考复习指南

湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (49)

　　The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

　　Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization. 56．The project is meant to ______. A．increase the world’s food output in the future B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes C．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds D．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters 57．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage? A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone. B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago. C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever. D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place. 58．We can infer from the text that _______. A．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 20 years before.