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Questionsarebasedonthefollowingpassage:
Treesareusefultomaninthreeimportantways:theyprovidehimwithwoodandotherproducts;theygivehimshade;andtheyhelptopreventdroughtsandfloods.
Unfortunately,inmanypartsoftheworld,manhasnotrealizedthatthethirdoftheseservicesisthemostimportant.Inhiseagernesstomakemoneyfromtrees,hehascutthemdowninlargenumbers,onlytofindthatwithoutthemhehaslostthebestfriendshehad.Andbesides,heisusuallytoocalesstoplantandlookafternewtrees.Sotheforestsslowlydisappear.
Thisdoesnotonlymeanthatmanwillhavefewertrees.Theresultsareevenmoreserious:forwheretherearetrees,theirrootsbreakupsoil--allowingtheraintosinkin--andalsobindthesoil,thuspreventingitfrombeingwashedawayeasily;butwheretherearenotrees,theranfallsonhardgroundandflowsaway,causingfloodsandcantingawaytherichtop-soil.Whenallthetop-soilisgone,nothingremainsbutworthlessdesert.
Twothousandyearsagoarichandpowerfulcountrycutdownitstreestobuildwarships,withwhichtogainitselfanempire.Itsetuptheempirebut,withoutitstrees,itssoilbecamepooranditgrewweak.
Whentheempirefelltopieces,thehomecountryfounditselffacedwithfloodsandstarvation.
Whatisthemostimportantserviceoftreestomanaccordingtothepassage? A.Theyhelphimmakemoney
B.Theygivehimwoodandotherproducts
C.Theyhelphimpreventdroughtsandfloods
D.Theygivehimshade
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