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It is the year 2050, and April blizzards have gripped southern England for the third successive year while violent storms batter

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问题     It is the year 2050, and April blizzards have gripped southern England for the third successive year while violent storms batter the North Sea coast. The Gulf Stream, whose wanning waters once heated our shores, has long since disappeared, destroyed by a deluge pouring south from the melting Arctic icecap.
    In the United States, much of Alaska has turned into a quagmire as permafrost and glaciers disintegrate. In Colorado, chair lift pylons stand rusting in the warm drizzle, remainders that the nation once supported a billion-dollar ski industry, while the remnants of Florida are declared America’ s second island state.
    Africa is faring badly. Its coastline from Cairo to Lagos is completely folded and many of the major cities have been abandoned. Tens of millions of people have been forced to flee and are struggling to survive in a parched, waterless interior.
    In Asia there is a similar, terrifying picture. Bangladesh is almost totally inundated and the East Indies have been reduced to a few drippy islands. Tens of millions stand on the brink of death.
    It is a startling scenario worthy of a science fiction disaster film. And it would be easy to dismiss , were it not for the uncomfortable fact that these visions are the result of rigorous scientific analysis by some of the world’ s most distinguished climatologists.
    As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)points out in its recent Climate Change 2001 report, global wanning is likely to trigger a cascade of unpleasant effects; elderly people will suffer and die in smoggy, polluted cities; crops will fail; and wildlife and livestock will perish on a scorched and miserable planet.
    That report was the combined work of several thousand of the world’ s leading meteorological experts and scientists whose views George Bush has now dismissed as "questionable" and whose work in creating the Kyoto 10 protocol has been utterly undone.
    The US decision to pull out of the international accord on climate change has caused predictable international alarm. Kyoto merely pledged developed countries to restrict their industrial output. " It was an excellent first step towards reversing climate change," according to Southampton University ’ s professor Nigel Arnell.
    Kyoto was, in effect, a statement of intent. The industrial nations, which had, after all, initiated the problem of global warming, would show their commitment by making the first crucial, self-sacrificing moves. Then the Third World could be drawn in, and the first decreases in carbon-dioxide emissions agreed over the next few years. "Bush has now made the attainment of these next crucial steps much more difficult," says Arnell. In fact, most experts believe he has made them impossible. If the West won’t act, why should the rest of the world?
Which of the following statements is incorrect about Kyoto protocol?
选项 A、It is the first move towards reversing climate change.
B、It suggests the developed countries take the initiative to solve the problem of global warming.
C、It is merely confined to poor countries.
D、It intents to restrict developed countries’ emissions of exhaust gas first and then to draw the Third World into protect the environment.
答案C
解析 文章最后一段指出，《京都议定书》是使气候变化好转的第一步，它是一份意向声明，主要是想让发达国家先对环境保护采取行动，然后the Third World could be drawn in，第三世界国家加入。如果西方大国不准备有所行动，其他国家就没理由积极地参与，因此可见这一议定书主要是针对西方大国的。
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