Today we can see that many people are cutting down the trees in the forests. A lot of ________ land has become deserts. If we ________ newspapers, we’ll learn that the forests on the earth are getting smaller ________. We are cutting down large numbers of trees ________ we need wood and farmland. Some ________ say that there will not be any great forests ________ 20 or 30 years.

What will happen ________ the forests disappear? A lot of plants will die and the animals will ________ their homes. In many places the new farmland will soon look ________ the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. There won’t be enough ________, and the weather will get hot and dry.