[简答题]It’s a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming--deciding it isn’t happening, or isn’t due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn’t a serious threat--didn’t just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and decide, holy cow, the discrimination of continuous equations in general circulation models is completely wrong! Instead, the backlash (an 18-point rise since 2006 in the percentage who say the risk of climate change is exaggerated, Gallup found this month) has been stoked by scientists’ abysmal communication skills, plus some peculiarly American attitudes, both brought into play now by how critics have spun the "Climategate" e-mails to make it seem as if scientists have pulled a fast one.
Scientists are lousy communicators. They appeal to people’s heads, not their hearts or guts, argues Randy Olson, who left a professorship in marine biology to make science films. "Scientists thin

[简答题]It’s a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming--deciding it isn’t happening, or isn’t due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn’t a serious threat--didn’t just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and decide, holy cow, the discrimination of continuous equations in general circulation models is completely wrong! Instead, the backlash (an 18-point rise since 2006 in the percentage who say the risk of climate change is exaggerated, Gallup found this month) has been stoked by scientists’ abysmal communication skills, plus some peculiarly American attitudes, both brought into play now by how critics have spun the "Climategate" e-mails to make it seem as if scientists have pulled a fast one.
Scientists are lousy communicators. They appeal to people’s heads, not their hearts or guts, argues Randy Olson, who left a professorship in marine biology to make science films. "Scientists thin

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It’s a safe bet that the millions of Americans who have recently changed their minds about global warming--deciding it isn’t happening, or isn’t due to human activities such as burning coal and oil, or isn’t a serious threat--didn’t just spend an intense few days poring over climate-change studies and decide, holy cow, the discrimination of continuous equations in general circulation models is completely wrong! Instead, the backlash (an 18-point rise since 2006 in the percentage who say the risk of climate change is exaggerated, Gallup found this month) has been stoked by scientists’ abysmal communication skills, plus some peculiarly American attitudes, both brought into play now by how critics have spun the "Climategate" e-mails to make it seem as if scientists have pulled a fast one.
Scientists are lousy communicators. They appeal to people’s heads, not their hearts or guts, argues Randy Olson, who left a professorship

[单项选择]Millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins and minerals, ______ that these pills can help prevent serious illnesses.
A. convincing
B. convinced
C. to convince
D. to be convinced

[单项选择]Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’ s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War I1 and the people they liberated, the GI. was the 2 man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of 1hod and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a vohmteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy, up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
His name is not much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 Govermnent Issue, and it was on all of the article 8 to soldiers. And Joe A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrae... a working class name.The United States has 10 had a president or vieepresident or secretary of state Joe.
GI. Joe had a 11 career fighting Geman, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GL Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayde themselves in the fihn. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the "willie" cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives.
A. and
B. nor
C. but
D. hence