2014年職稱英語考試綜合類B級(jí)完形填空題12

　　Global Warming全球變暖

　　Few people now question the reality of global warming and its effects on the world's climate. Many scientists (1) the blame for recent natural disasters on the increase (2) the world's temperatures and are convinced that, more than (3) before, the Earth is at (4) from the forces of the wind, rain and sun. (5) to them, global warming is making extreme weather events, (6) as hurricanes and droughts, even more (7) and causing sea levels all around the world to (8) .

　　現(xiàn)在很少有人質(zhì)疑全球變暖的現(xiàn)實(shí)及其對世界氣候的影響。許多科學(xué)家把全球氣溫上升歸咎于最近的自然災(zāi)害，他們確信，地球現(xiàn)在比以往任何時(shí)候都更受到風(fēng)、雨和太陽這些力量的威脅。據(jù)他們說，全球變暖制造了極端天氣事件，例如颶風(fēng)、干旱，甚至更為嚴(yán)重的以至于世界各地的海平面上升。

　　Environmental groups are putting (9) on governments to take action to reduce the (10) of carbon dioxide which is given (11) by factories and power plants, thus attacking the problem at its source. They are in (12) of more money being spent on research into solar, wind and wave energy devices, which could then replace existing power (13) .

　　環(huán)保團(tuán)體對政府施加壓力，要求政府采取行動(dòng)減少工廠和發(fā)電廠排放的二氧化碳量，攻擊它的資源問題。他們都贊成把更多的資金用到研發(fā)太陽能、風(fēng)能和波浪能裝置上，以取代現(xiàn)有的發(fā)電站。

　　Some scientists, (14) believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait (15) hundred years to notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is here to stay.

　　然而，還有一些科學(xué)家，他們相信即使明天我們不再排放二氧化碳和其他氣體到大氣層中，我們也將不得不等待幾百年才能得到結(jié)果。全球變暖似乎要在這里停留。

　　詞匯:

　　climate /'klaimit/ n. 氣候,風(fēng)氣

　　hurricane n. 颶風(fēng),暴風(fēng)-

　　drought n. 干旱,旱災(zāi)

　　carbon dioxide n. 二氧化碳

　　solar 太陽的 n.

　　atmosphere 大氣

　　注釋:

　　1. put the blame for ... :把……歸咎于……

　　2. ... in favour of more money being spent on ... :……贊成把錢花在……