There are hidden factors which scientists call "feedback mechanisms". No one knows quite how they will interact with the changin

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问题 There are hidden factors which scientists call "feedback mechanisms". No one knows quite how they will interact with the changing climate. Here’s one example: plants and animals adapt to climate change over centuries. At the current estimate of half a degree centigrade of warming per decade, vegetation(植物)may not keep up. Climatologist James Hansen predicts climate zones will shift toward the poles by 50 to 75 kilometres a year— faster than trees can naturally migrate. Species that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment will die. The 1,000-kilometre-wide strip of forest running through Canada, the USSR and Scandinavia could be cut by half. Millions of dying trees would soon lead to massive forest fires, releasing tons of CO₂ and further boosting global warming.
There are dozens of other possible "feedback mechanisms". Higher temperatures will fuel condensation and increase cloudiness, which may actually damp down global warming. Others, like the "albedo" effect, will do the opposite. The "albedo" effect is the amount of solar energy reflected by the earth’s surface. As northern ice and snow melts and the darker sea and land pokes(戳)through, more heat will be absorbed, adding to the global temperature increase.
Even if we were to magically stop all greenhouse-gas emissions tomorrow the impact on global climate would continue for decades. Delay will simply make the problem worse. The fact is that some of us are doing quite well the way things are. In the developed world prosperity has been built on 150 years of cheap fossil fuels.
Material progress has been linked to energy consumption. Today 75 percent of all the world’s energy is consumed by a quarter of the world’s population. The average rich world resident adds about 3. 2 tons of CO₂ yearly to the atmosphere, more than four times the level added by each Third World citizen. The US, with just 7 percent of the global population, is responsible for 22 percent of global warming.
James Hansen predicts that the shift of climate zones will be accompanied by______.

选项 A、the cutting of many trees
B、desirable environmental changes
C、successful migration of species
D、unsuccessful migration of trees

答案D

解析文章第一段中指出“Climatologist James Hansen predicts climate zones will shift toward the poles by 50 to 75 kilometres a year--faster than trees can naturally mi—grate．Species that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment will die．”气候学家詹姆斯·汉森预计，气候带将每年向极地移动50公里到75公里，比树木可能自然迁移的速度要快。那些发现自己生活于一个不熟悉的环境的物种将会灭绝。可见，气候带的迁移使树木不能适应其速度而灭绝。D项符合文章的意思。B和C都与文章的意思相反。A项的内容是文中举例来说明气候带的迁移对树木的影响，并不是气候带迁移将伴随的状况，所以A项不对。因此本题的正确答案为D。

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