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2013
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6
月英语六
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The continuous
presentation of scary stories about global warming
in the popular
media makes us
unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it __62__
our kids.
Al
Gore
famously
__63__
how
a
sea-level
rise
of
20
feet
would
almost
completely
flood
Florida,
New
York,
Holland,
and
Shanghai,
__64__the
United
Nations says that such a thing will not
even happen, __65__ that sea levels will rise
20 times less than that.
When __66__ with these exaggerations,
some of us say that they are for a good cause,
and surely __67__ is no harm done if
the result is that we focus even more on tackling
climate change.
This
__68__
is
astonishingly
wrong.
Such
exaggerations
do
plenty
of
harm.
Worrying __69__ about
global warming means that we worry less about
other things,
where
we
could
do
so
much
more
good.
We
focus,
__70
__,
on
global
warming's
impact on malaria
(
疟疾
)-which will put slightly
more people at __71__ in 100 years
-
instead
of
tackling
the
half
a
billion
people
__72__from
malaria
today
with
prevention
and
treatment
policies
that
are
much
cheaper
and
dramatically
more
effective than carbon reduction would
be.
__73__ also wears out the public's
willingness to tackle global warming. If the
planet is __74__, people wonder, why do
anything? A record 54% of American voters
now believe the news media make global
warming appear worse than it really is. A
__75__ of people now believe
–
incorrectly
–
that global warming is not
even caused
by humans.
But
the __76__ cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the
unnecessary alarm that it
causes
–
particularly
__77__
children.
An
article
in
The
Washington
Post
cited
nine-
year-old
Alyssa,
who
cries
about
the
possibility
of
mass
animal
__78__
from
global warming.
The
newspaper
also
reported
that
parents
are
__79__
outlets
for
their
eight-
year-olds'
obsessions
(
忧心忡忡
)
with
dying
polar
bears.
They
might
be
better off educating them
and letting them know that, contrary __80__ common
belief,
the global polar bear
population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled
(
成为四倍
)
over
the
past
half-
century,
to
about
22,000.
__81__
diminishing
-
and
eventually
disappearing -
summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become
extinct.
62. A. exhausts B. suppresses
C. terrifies D. disgusts
63. A.
dismissed B. distracted C. deposited D. depicted
64. A. as if B. even though C. in that
D. in case
65. A. measuring B.
signifying C. estimating D. extracting
66. A. confronted B. identified C.
equipped D. entrusted
67. A. such B.
there C. what D. which
68. A. morality
B. interaction C. argument D. dialogue
69. A. prevalently B. predictably C.
expressively D. excessively
70. A. for
example B. in addition C. by contrast D. in short
71. A. will B. large C. ease D. risk
72. A. suffering B. deriving C.
developing D. stemming
73. A.
Explanation B. Reservation C. Exaggeration D.
Revelation
74. A. dumped B. dimmed C.
doubled D. doomed
75. A. mixture B.
majority C. quantity D. quota
76. A.
smallest B. worst C. fewest D. least
77. A. among B. of C. by D. toward
78. A. separation B. sanction C.
isolation D. extinction
79. A. turning
out B. tiding over C. searching for D. pulling
through
80. A. upon B. to C. about D.
with
81. A. Despite B. Besides C.
Regardless D. Except