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your everyday communication.

句意：如果你现在停下来，在脑海中列出你遇到的沟通问题，你会发现，无论你的人际关系多么
的成功，你的日常交际都有很大的改善空间。
首先这是一个由if引导的真实条件状语从句。主从句时态法则遵从”主将从现“。
其中，you have encountered是一个定语从句，修饰前面的先行词problems。从句省略了关系词that/

which。
no matter how引导让步状语从句，翻译为“无论怎样”，相当于however。
plenty of“大量的”，可以修饰可数名词复数或者不可数名词。这里被它修饰的room意思为“空

间”，不可数。

【真题演练2】
To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that

others may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers (祖先) had no idea that human population would
increase faster than the supplies of raw materials; most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish
idea that the treasures were “limitless” and “inexhaustible (不竭的)”. Most of the citizens of earlier
generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature,
and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be

harmful to all the other parts.
Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of the school work; scientific forestry (林业) was a new
idea; timber (木材) was still cheap because it could be bought in any quantity from distant woodlands;

soil destruction and river floods were not national problems. Nobody had yet studied long-term climatic
cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it
has for us today.
For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the
mistakes of our forefathers. Conservation should, therefore, be made a part of everyone’s dally life. To

know about the water table in the ground is just as important to us a basic knowledge. We need to know
why all water resources need to be protected for maintaining plant life and why the running currents of
streams and rivers must be made to yield their full benefit to the soil before they finally escape to the

sea. We need to be taught the duty of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the
importance of big, mature trees, because living space for most of man’s fellow creatures on this planet is
figured not only in square measure of surface but also in cubic volume above the earth. In brief, it should
be our goal to restore as much of original beauty of nature as we can.

1. In the writer’s opinion, our ancestors ________.
A. didn’t know how to take full advantage of raw materials
B. didn’t have the slightest idea of environmental protection
C. didn’t know how to control the growth of human population
D. didn’t understand the importance of improving the nature

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