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[单项选择]At the conference, the speaker tried to (express) his feelings concerning the urgency of favorable decisions.
A. convey
B. affect
C. impose on
D. summon
[单项选择]What was the theme of the conference the speaker was to attend( ).
A. The role of immigrants in the construction of American society.
B. The importance of offering diverse courses in European history.
C. The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.
D. The historic landing of Europeans on the Virginia shore.
[多项选择]For a keynote speaker at a conference on wilderness conservation, Pavan Sukhdev possessed astrange job title: banker. Sukhdev, a high-ranking executive of Deutsche Bank who helped build India’s modern financial markets, had a fiscal message to deliver. The loss of forests is costing the global economy between $ 2.5 trillion and $ 4.5 trillion a year, he said. Many trillions more in costs arise from the loss of vegetation to filter water, bees to pollinate crops, microbes to breakdown toxins, and dozens of other "ecosystem services. "
For centuries, economies have risen and collapsed based on the market value of the products extracted from nature-timber, coal, metals, game. And yet the value of much of what nature supplies hasn’t been reflected in the numbers. A new movement now seeks to put this right by attaching an economic value to the services nature provides. The idea is predicated on the notion that since a paper mill, say, needs water as well as trees, there should be some