Recently, some concerns have been raised about the health of the world's banana plants. Many media reports have said that bananas may completely disappear in the coming ten years.
Bananas are one of the world's most important food crops. They are also the fourth most valuable export. Bananas do not grow from seeds. Instead, they grow from existing plants. Bananas are threatened by disease because all the plants on a farm are copies of each other. They all share the same genetic weaknesses.
For example, the Cavendish banana is most popular in American markets. It is an important export crop. However, some kinds of fungus (真菌) organisms easily infect the Cavendish. Black Sigatoka disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants. The disease is controlled on large farms by putting chemicals on the plant's leaves. Farmers put anti-fungal chemicals on their crops up to once a week.
Another fungal disease is more serious. Panama disease attacks the roots of the banana plant. There is no chemical treatment for this disease. Infected plants must be destroyed. Panama disease has affected crops in Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa. There is concern that it may spread to bananas grown in the Americas. This could threaten an important export product for Central and South America.
The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain, whose headquarter lies in France, supports research on bananas. The group says that more research must be done to develop improved kinds of bananas.
The group says that fungal diseases mainly affect only one kind of banana. In fact, there are five-hundred different kinds of bananas. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says the Cavendish banana represents only ten percent of world production.
The UN agency says farmers should grow different kinds of bananas. This protects against diseases that affect only one kind. Experts warn that disease may cause the Cavendish banana to disappear. This has already happened to one popular banana because of its genetic weakness against disease. (words: 335)
1.What does the passage mainly tell us?
A．Bananas are the world’s most important food crops.
B．There are five hundred different kinds of bananas.
C．The risk to a popular banana shows need to grow other kinds.
D．How to grow bananas in different countries.
2.Bananas are threatened by diseases because __________.
A．they have genetic weaknesses against disease.
B．they are one of the most valuable exports.
C．the only way to prevent it is to put chemicals on their leaves.
D．they grow from the seed
3.Panama disease__________.
A．doesn’t belong to fungal disease.
B．has spread to bananas in the world.
C．affects the leaves of banana plants.
D．destroys the bananas more seriously than Black Sigatoka disease.
4.We can infer from Paragraph 6 that ____________.
A．the center of the group is in the US.
B．the key to solving the disease is to research all kinds of bananas.
C．the Cavendish banana covers only a small part of the output of bananas.
D．each fungal disease affects five hundred different kinds of bananas.
5.According to the passage, which information is right?
A．The Cavendish banana can be mainly imported from North America and Europe.
B．Fungal diseases mainly affect the Cavendish banana.
C．The Cavendish banana won’t die out in the future.
D．Panama disease affects the leaves of banana plants.
1.C
2.A
3.D
4.C
5.B
【解析】
試題分析：本文介紹了世界上香蕉產量所面臨的危險，有一種Cavendish banana正受到病菌的影響，導致產量的減少。
1.C 主旨大意題。本文講述了現在世界上的Cavendish banana收到病菌的影響，產量大減，我們需要有另外的品種的香蕉生產出來。故C項正確。
2.A 細節題。根據第二段最后兩行Bananas are threatened by disease because all the plants on a farm are copies of each other. They all share the same genetic weaknesses.
說明這些香蕉都有同樣的基因上的缺陷。故A正確。
3.D 細節題。根據第三段第三行Black Sigatoka disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants.說明它影響的是香蕉的葉子，故D項正確。
4.C 推斷題。根據文章倒數第六段最后一行the Cavendish banana represents only ten percent of world production. 說明這種香蕉只占世界產量的百分之10，那么它只占產量的少部分。故C正確。
5.B 細節題。根據第三段2,3行However, some kinds of fungus (真菌) organisms easily infect the Cavendish. Black Sigatoka disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants.說明這種病菌只影響Cavendish banana。故B正確。
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