31.whose⇒who
32.to who ⇒to whom
33.destroying ⇒ destroyed
34.the technological institutions⇒ technological institutions
35.on him ⇒ for him
36.Many of the => Of the many
32.the process which ⇒ the process by which
37.are ⇒is
38.most cleanest⇒cleanest
39.bring about ⇒brings about
II. READING A.Fill in each blank with one appropriate word from the box. represents fueled oversee alarming lost imported establish reduced covered sought derived cleared.
The rate at which the deforestation of the world is proceeding is (31) alarming. In the 1950 approximately 25 percent of the earth’s land surface had been (32) covered with forests, and less than twenty-five years later -the amount of the forest land was (33) reduced to 20 percent. This decrease from 25 percent to 20 percent from 1950 to 1973 (34) represents an astounding 20 million square kilometers of forests. Predictions are that all, additional 20 million square kilometers of forest land will be (35) lost by 2020.
The majority of deforestation is occuring in the tropical forests in developing countries, (36) fueled by the developing countries’ need for increased agricultural land and the desire on the part of developed countries to import wood and wood products. More than 90 percent of the plywood used in the United States, for example, is (37) imported from, developing countries with tropical rain forests. By the mid-1980s, solutions to this expanding problem were being (38) sought, in the form of attempts to (39) establish an international regulatory organization to (40) oversee the use of tropical forests.