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We human beings need to stay in touch with nature-many studies show how much better people feel when in sight of trees. Yet even more importantly，nature itself needs us to stay in touch. Many politicians and scientists have told us that we can "conquer" nature，but in reality nature will always be beyond our control---we do have the power to destroy it. The fate of all the animals and their habitats depends largely on our attitude towards them. Whether or not we ourselves survive depends on how well we look after the rest. For our sake as well as theirs，we need to consider it seriously.

But how can we care at all if we spend our lives indoors？Born in South London at the end of the Second World War，at least I knew what a sparrow was（they're rare now）and you couldn't put a spade into our tiny garden without cutting a worm in half. We knew，too，that milk comes from cows and that old men can grow amazing carrots on poor land. Ultra-urban（极度城市化）as we may have been，at least we were in touch.

"Now we have a generation who frankly are not in touch. So how can they care if the countryside is sold off to the highest bidders，and used to park helicopters，and our crops come free from Monsanto and our livestock live in factories？They will know no other way.

But if we settle for the ultra-urban life，if we allow all wilderness to be compromised and hand our farming over to industrial chemists then，quite simply，the world will fall apart--as it has been doing already. We have to rethink what agriculture is really for，and why conservation matters to us，as well as to other creatures. Changes of strategies begin with attitude and attitude begins with awareness.

1．Which of the following opinions will the author be for？

A．Technology will help humans control nature completely.

B．Conquering nature is the policy of human society.

C．Humans have to find a way to live in harmony with nature.

D．We will lose control of nature with the development of society.

2．The second paragraph is intended to tell us that city people in the past_____.

A．were in close touch with nature

B．managed to survive in the war

C．killed the worms in the earth cruelly

D．had a healthier diet than us

3．The new generation show no concern about the ultra-urban pattern just because _______

A．modern agriculture doesn't need hard work

B．high profits can be made by selling city land

C．they are cut off from nature

D．livestock living in factories are tastier

4．From the passage we can guess that Monsanto is likely to be____________

A．a chemical fertilizer plant

B．a scientist good at farming

C．a construction corporation

D．a big agricultural company

5．Towards the end of the passage，the author reminds us to_____________

A．move to the countryside

B．reflect on our past behaviors

C．leave space for wild animals

D．turn farms into big factories