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deals. The

purchase

price

could

also

be

a

signal

that

an

established company is buying a new- born threat. When this takes place, especially when a new-

born company has no revenue to speak of, the regulators should raise red flags.

The second principle is to loosen the control that providers of on-line services have over

data and give more to those who supply them. Companies could be forced to reveal to consumers

what information they hold and how much money they make from it. Governments could order

the sharing of certain kinds of data, with users’ consent.

Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy. But if governments don’t want

a data economy controlled by a few giants, they must act soon.

61. Why is there a call to break up giants?

A. They have controlled the data market.

B. They collect enormous private data.

C. They no longer provide free services.

D. They dismissed some new-born giants.

62. What does the technological innovation in Paragraph 3 indicate?

A. Data giants’ technology is very expensive.

B. Google’s idea is popular among data firms.

C. Data can strengthen giants’ controlling position.

D. Data can be turned into new services or products.

63. By paying attention to firms’ data assets, antitrust regulators could __________.

A. kill a new threat

B. avoid the size trap

C. favour bigger firms

D. charge higher prices

64. What is the purpose of loosening the giants’ control of data?

A. Big companies could relieve data security pressure.

B. Governments could relieve their financial pressure.

C. Consumers could better protect their privacy.

D. Small companies could get more opportunities.

D

Old Problem, New Approaches

While clean energy is increasingly used in our daily life, global warming will continue for

some decades after CO

2

emissions

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peak. So even if emissions were to begin to decrease

today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change. Here I will stress some

smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation.

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When it comes to adaptation, it is important to understand that climate change is a process.

We are therefore not talking about adapting to a new standard, but to a constantly shifting set of

conditions. This is why, in part at least, the US National Climate Assessment says that:

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There

is no ‘one-size fits all’ adaptation.

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Nevertheless, there are some actions that offer much and

carry little risk or cost.

Around

the

world,

people

are

adapting

in

surprising

ways,

especially

in

some

poor

countries. Floods have become more damaging in Bangladesh in recent decades. Mohammed

Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster. His not-for-profit organization runs

100 river boats that serve as floating libraries, schools, and health clinics, and are equipped with

solar panels and other communicating facilities. Rezwan is creating floating connectivity

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to replace flooded roads and highways. But he is also working at a far more fundamental level:

his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds to prevent starvation during

the wet season.

Elsewhere in Asia even more astonishing actions are being taken. Chewang Norphel lives

in a mountainous region in India, where he is known as the Ice Man. The loss of glaciers

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there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture. Without the glaciers,

water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops. Norphel’s inspiration came

from seeing the waste of water over winter, when it was not needed. He directed the wasted

water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring. His fields of ice supply

perfectly

timed

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water.

Having

created

nine

such

ice

reserves,

Norphel

calculates that he has stored about 200, 000 m

3

of water. Climate change is a continuing process,

so Norphel’s ice reserves will not last forever. Warming will overtake them. But he is providing

a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

Increasing Earth’s reflectiveness can cool the planet. In southern Spain the sudden increase

of greenhouses

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which reflect light back to space

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has changed the warming trend locally, and

actually cooled the region. While Spain as a whole is heating up quickly, temperatures near the

greenhouses have decreased. This example should act as an inspiration for all cities. By painting

buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

In Peru, local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to

climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added

reflectiveness will restore the life- giving ice. The outcome is still far from clear. But the World

Bank has included the project on its list of

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More ordinary forms of adaptation are happening everywhere. A friend of mine owns an

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area of land in western Victoria. Over five generations the land has been too wet for cropping.

But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this — either by growing new produce, or by

growing the same things differently. This is common sense. But some suggestions for adapting

are not. When the polluting industries argue that we’ve lost the battle to control carbon pollution

and have no choice but to adapt, it’s a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.

Human

beings

will

continue

to

adapt

to

the

changing

climate

in

both

ordinary

and

astonishing ways. But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adapt our energy systems

to emit less carbon pollution. After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change

in so many others.

65. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 implies __________.

A. adaptation is an ever-changing process

B. the cost of adaptation varies with time

C. global warming affects adaptation forms

D. adaptation to climate change is challenging

66. What is special with regard to Rezwan’s project?

A. The project receives government support.

B. Different organizations work with each other.

C. His organization makes the best of a bad situation.

D. The project connects flooded roads and highways.

67. What did the Ice Man do to reduce the effect of global warming?

A. Storing ice for future use.

B. Protecting the glaciers from melting.

C. Changing the irrigation time.

D. Postponing the melting of the glaciers.

68. What do we learn from the Peru example?

A. White paint is usually safe for buildings.

B. The global warming trend cannot be stopped.

C. This country is heating up too quickly.

D. Sunlight reflection may relieve global warming.

69. According to the author, polluting industries should __________.

A. adapt to carbon pollution

B. plant highly profitable crops

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C. leave carbon emission alone

D. fight against carbon pollution

70. What’s the author’s preferred solution to global warming?

A. Setting up a new standard.

B. Reducing carbon emission.

C. Adapting to climate change.

D. Monitoring polluting industries.

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Population Change

Why

is

the world’s population growing? The answer is

not what

you

might think. The

reason for the explosion is not that people have been reproducing like rabbits, but that people

have stopped dropping dead like flies. In 1900, people died at the average age of 30. By 2000

the average age was 65. But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century,

declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.

Statistics show that the average number of births per woman has fallen from 4.9 in the early

1960s

to

2.5 nowadays.

Furthermore,

around

50%

of

the

world’s

population

live

in

regions

where the figure is now below the replacement level

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i.e.2.1 births per woman

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and almost all

developed nations are experiencing sub- replacement birth rate. You might think that developing

nations would make up the loss

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especially since 80% of the world’s people now live in such

nations

)

,

but

you’d

be

wrong.

Declining

birth

rate

is

a

major

problem

in

many

developing

regions too, which might cause catastrophic global shortages of work force within a few decades.

A great decline in young work force is likely to occur in China, for instance. What does it

imply? First, China needs to undergo rapid economic development before a population decline

hits the country. Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth

and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

Since 1992 the number of people dying has been bigger than that of those being born by a

massive 50%.

Indeed official figures suggest the country has shrunk by 5% since

1993 and

people in Russia live a shorter life now than those in is this occurring? Nobody is

quite sure, but poor diet an above all long-time alcoholism have much to do with it. If current

trends don’t bend. Russia’s population will be about the size of Yemen’s by the year 2050.

In the north of India, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south,

where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly. In a further twist,

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