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Global Warming

Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Many scientists (51) the blame for reeent natural disasters on the increase (52) the world’s temperatures and are convinced that, more than (53) before, the Earth is at (54) from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. (55) to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, (56) as hurricanes and droughts, even more (57) and causing sea levels all around the world to (58)
Environmental groups are putting (59) on governments to take action to reduce the (60) of carbon dioxide which is given (61) by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at its source. They are in (62) of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace ex
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Global Warming

Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world’s climate. Many scientists (51) the blame for reeent natural disasters on the increase (52) the world’s temperatures and are convinced that, more than (53) before, the Earth is at (54) from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. (55) to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, (56) as hurricanes and droughts, even more (57) and causing sea levels all around the world to (58)
Environmental groups are putting (59) on governments to take action to reduce the (60) of carbon dioxide which is given (61) by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at its source. They are in (62) of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace ex
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[单项选择]Few people now remember the sinking of the great passenger ship Colossus exactly sixty years ago. The number of people who were actually saved from her was small, and some of those have died in the years since, so that those who are still alive today can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Then you will easily understand why I have been asked to write about that sad day in 1912. The Colossus, then she hit an iceberg in thick fog in the North Atlantic Ocean, she actually disappeared in less than twenty minutes, taking nearly fifteen hundred people with her. My own life was saved by my youth. Being only a boy of fourteen, I was one of those lucky women and children who, according to custom, were allowed to get away first from the sinking ship. The selfless crew packed some sixty of us into a small boat and lowered it into the angry sea. But during the ship’s last minutes more and more passengers, as their last hope of escaping death, threw themselves wildly into the sea and tried to g
A. A small number of people were saved from the ship.
B. The author’s life was saved because a young man helped him.
C. The author’s life was saved because he was young and strong.
D. A passing ship picked him up at last after he struggled in the sea for three hours.