首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even w
The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even w
admin
2013-10-08
23
问题
The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it【C1】______our kids.
Al Gore famously【C2】______ how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen,【C3】______that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.
When【C4】______with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.
This argument is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying【C5】______about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, for example, on global warming’s impact on malaria(疟疾)—which will put slightly more people at risk in 100 years—instead of tackling the half a billion people【C6】______ from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.
【C7】______also wears out the public’s willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is【C8】______, 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 majority of people now believe— incorrectly—that global warming is not even caused by humans.
But the worst cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes—particularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal【C9】______from global warming.
The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for "productive" 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 to 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.【C10】______diminishing—and eventually disappearing—summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.
A)confronted F)doomed K)excessively
B)extinction G)suffering L)Reservation
C)terrifies H)Besides M)estimating
D)depicted I)Despite N)extracting
E)isolation J)distracted O)Exaggeration
【C2】
选项
答案
D
解析
动词辨析题。第二段首句后半部分提到,海平面上升20英尺之后,佛罗里达、纽约、荷兰以及上海几乎全部被淹没于海底。这是对全球变暖的可怕后果的一种生动的场景描述,故depicted“描述”符合句意,故为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WG27777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Thelocationofthesessionhasbeenchanged.B、Shewilldefinitelygotothesessionthisevening.C、She’llprobablybetoot
A、Themancancomeanothertime.B、Therewouldbemorefunwithouttheman’sroommate.C、Itisnoproblemiftheman’sroommate
Thelocalgovernmentwillgrandlandto____________(那些愿意建厂的人).
AreWeTurningintoaNationofLoners?Marriageisdown,andsoischildbirth.Butdivorceisup,alongwithsingle-person
Dr.GregoryConnollyisdirectoroftheofficefornonsmokingandhealthintheMassachusettspublichealthdepartment.Hesaid
A、Tocombatcompetitionandraiseproductivity.B、Toprovidethemwithmorejobopportunities.C、Tohelpthemmaintaintheirliv
A、Otherlivingthingschangetheirenvironmentwhilemandoesn’t.B、Manaltershisenvironmentwhileheisadaptedtoit,butot
A、Therelationshipbetweenmanandhisenvironment.B、Therelationshipbetweenlivingthingsandtheirenvironment.C、Therelati
Corporationsasagroupofferavarietyofjobs.Mostlargecompaniessendpeopletocollegesto【B1】______graduatingstudents
Chinahasoutlinedanewapproachtoforeigninvestment,withplannerssayingtheywillnowfocuslessonattractinglargeamoun
随机试题
储气罐高压表下限为()KPa。
有关计算烧伤患者热能需要量时,下列说法不正确的是
A.病邪入里B.寒邪化热C.邪退正复D.热退津复E.湿热留恋舌苔由薄白转为白厚,提示()
分类账簿按反映内容的______不同,分为总分类账和明细分类账。
儿童在周岁时只会咿呀学语,到三四岁时多半说话流畅了,这说明年龄决定儿童的心理发展。()
一、注意事项1.申论考试,与传统作文考试不同,是对分析驾驭材料的能力与对表达能力并重的考试。2.作答参考时限:阅读资料40分钟,作答110分钟。3.仔细阅读给定的资料,按照后面提出的“申论要求”依次作答。二、给定材料1.国家助学
A.Nokiaposts$1.38bnlossinthefourthqtrB.Goldsurgesto7-weekhighof$1,720C.R-PowerropesinGermanutilit
甲在缓刑考验期内犯罪,但在缓刑考验期满后才被发现,且未过追诉时效,对甲的处理应该是()。
有如下类定义:classCup{public:voidSetPrice(doubleval=5.8);doubleGetPrice(){returnprice;
「まどしめましょうか。」「いいえ、あついから________いいですよ。」
最新回复
(
0
)