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  3. A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tonnes a year, according to

A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tonnes a year, according to

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问题    A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tonnes a year, according to a new United Nations-backed study that calls for a shift away from destructively intensive agriculture. The alarming【C1】______, which is forecast to continue as demand for food and productive land increases, will add to the risks of conflicts unless【C2】______actions are implemented, warns the institution behind the report.
   "As the ready supply of healthy and productive land dries up and the population grows, competition is【C3】______for land within countries and globally," said executive secretary of the UN Convention to CombatDesertification (UNCCD) at the launch of the Global Land Outlook. " To【C4】______the losses, the outlooksuggests it is in all our interests to step back and rethink how we are managing the pressures and thecompetition. "
   The Global Land Outlook is【C5】______as the most comprehensive study of its type, mapping the interlinked impacts of urbanization, climate change, erosion and forest loss. But the biggest factor is the【C6】______of industrial farming. Heavy tilling, multiple harvests and【C7】______use of agrochemicals have increased yields at the【C8】______of long-term sustainability. In the past 20 years, agricultural production has increased threefold and the amount of irrigated land has doubled, notes a paper in the outlook by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European commission. Over time, however, this【C9】______fertility and can lead to abandonment of land and【C10】______desertification.
   A) absorb I) limited
   B) abundant J) minimize
   C) billed K) occasionally
   D) decline L) optimizes
   E) diminishes M) rate
   F) expansion N) remedial
   G) expense O) ultimately
   H) intensifying
【C8】
选项
答案G
解析 空格前是定冠词the，空格后是介词of，因此空格处应填入名词，构成“at the+名词+of”短语。上文提到，健康、多产的土地大量流失，此处说的是重耕多收以及大量使用农用化学品都增加了农业产量，而这是以我们失去土地长期可持续性发展为代价的，因此G)expense“花费，代价”为本题答案。
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