[单项选择]Global warming is something

[单项选择]The increasing global warming will have a devastating effect on some coastal areas, or ______ many scientists have warned.
A. so
B. it
C. thus
D. that

[单项选择]According to the passage, global warming and climate change might cause
A. the extinction of species.
B. the disappearance of the coast.
C. the reduction of crops.
D. the migration of birds.

[单项选择]Many scientists hold that global warming can be controlled by.

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When global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance (异乎寻常地). In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet, flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrate inland. Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically in North America, Europe and Asia. After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. The adaptation was farming: the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened more than 10,000 years ago.
As environmentalists convene in Rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global climate of the future, earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how climate has changed in the past — and how those changes have transformed human existence. Researchers have begun to piece together an il
A. to give up his former way of life
B. to leave the coastal areas
C. to follow the ever-shifting vegetation
D. to abandon his original settlement

[单项选择]In order to solve the problem of global warming, all countries should ______.


A. replace all the harmful substances
B. make progress in economy development
C. share ideas and bear common responsibilities
D. develop advanced technology to improve the situation

[单项选择]The media said global warming would NOT lead to______.
A. strong hurricanes
B. increasing heat
C. longer droughts
D. heavy rainstorms

[单项选择]Thus, global-warming skeptics write off the ------- of climate research investigators, emphasizing the ------- of others' reasoning, but not of their own.


A. data… accessibility
B. infighting … vagueness
C. resources … virtues
D. experiments … pragmatism
E. (E) consensus … uncertainty

[单项选择]Thus, global-warming skeptics write off the______of climate research investigators, emphasizing the______of others' reasoning, but not of their own.
A. (A) data… accessibility
B. (B) infighting … vagueness
C. (C) resources… virtues
D. (D) experiments … pragmatism
E. (E) consensus … uncertainty

[单项选择]The warming weather of the past hundred years may ______.
A. begin
B. end
C. be another ice age
D. start