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北京航空航天大学“英语文体与写作课”作业

班级：B23_2012 姓名： 吴恩泽_________ 学号： 12131064 总分：_________
作业名称：Desertification
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Explicitness (10%) ____ Hedging (10%)________ Objectivity (10%)____ Responsibility (10%) ____

Desertification
Desertification is one of the serve environmental problems nowadays. According to the form we can see that it is more and more serious. In 1980s, desertification area is 560km2 and sandstorms occurred 8 times. But in1990s, the area shoot up to 810km2, sandstorms came 12 times. After ten years, desertification area increased to 980km2, equivalent to a China. The situation is critical.
So what cause this problem? One side, the change of climate can lead to desertification. But desertification may mostly create by human. For example, excess reclamation, over grazing, and the waste of water, which cause of water loss and soil erosion, than desertification. And it bring troubles to human, air become negative, land get poor which will drop output of foodstuffs.
Finally, we need to settle this serious problem. First of all, through the laying of straw-checkerboard sand barrier, fortification, buried in fixed sand dunes in desert, to prevent further expansion. Secondly, carry out land intensive operation, no excessive grazing, advocate rotation tillage, fallow, maintain soil fertility. In addition, land degradation, desertification region, people should change consciousness, to alleviate the situation of living off the land; the area also should adjust industrial structure, develop agriculture energetically than some high economic value added of industry, save the precious water resources, to better manage the desertification.

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