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
World leaders met recently at United Nations headquarters in New York City to discuss the environmental issues raised at the Rio
World leaders met recently at United Nations headquarters in New York City to discuss the environmental issues raised at the Rio
admin
2011-01-02
83
问题
World leaders met recently at United Nations headquarters in New York City to discuss the environmental issues raised at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.The heads of state were supposed to decide what further steps should be taken to halt the decline of Earth’s life-support systems.In fact,this meeting had much the flavour of the original Earth Summit.To wit:empty promises,hollow rhetoric,bickering between rich and poor,and irrelevant initiatives.Think U.S. Congress in slow motion.
Almost obscured by this torpor is the fact that there has been some remarkable progress over the past five years—real changes in the attitude of ordinary people in the Third World toward family size and a dawning realisation that environmental degradation and their own well-being are intimately,and inversely,linked.Almost none of this,however, has anything to do with what the bureaucrats accomplished in Rio.
Or it didn’t accomplish.One item on the agenda at Rio,for example,was a renewed effort to save tropical forests.(A previous UN-sponsored initiative had fallen apart when it became clear that it actually hastened deforestation.)After Rio,a UN working group came up with more than 100 recommendations that have so far gone nowhere.One proposed forestry pact would do little more than immunizing wood-exporting nations against trade sanctions.
An effort to draft an agreement on what to do about the climate changes caused by CO2 and other greenhouse gases has fared even worse.Blocked by the Bush Administration from setting mandatory limits,the UN in 1992 called on nations to voluntarily reduce emissions to 1990 levels.Several years later,it’s as if Rio had never happened.A new climate treaty is scheduled to be signed this December in Kyoto,Japan,but governments still cannot agree on these limits.Meanwhile,the U.S. produces 7% more CO2 than it did in 1990,and emissions in the developing world have risen even more sharply.No one would confuse the“Rio process”with progress.
While governments have dithered at a pace that could make drifting continents impatient,people have acted.Birth-rates are dropping faster than expected,not because of Rio but because poor people are deciding on their own to reduce family size.Another positive development has been a growing environmental consciousness among the poor.From slum dwellers in Karachi,Pakistan,to colonists in Rondonia,Brazil,urban poor and rural peasants alike seem to realize that they pay the biggest price for pollution and deforestation.There is cause for hope as well in the growing recognition among business people that it is not in their long-term interest to fight environmental reforms.John Browne,chief executive of British Petroleum,boldly asserted in a major speech in May that the threat of climate change could no longer be ignored.
The word“deforestation”in Paragraph 3 means______.
选项
A、forest damage caused by pollution
B、moving population from forest to cities
C、the threat of climate change
D、cutting large areas of trees
答案
D
解析
deforestation意为“滥伐森林”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/eZHd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Thebookprovidesaconciseanalysisofthecountry’shistory.
Almostalleconomistsagreethatnationsgainbytradingwithoneanother.
TechnologyTransferinGermanyWhenitcomestotranslatingbasicresearchintoindustrialsuccess,fewnationscanmatchGerman
IsThereaWaytoKeeptheBritain’sEconomyGrowing?1.Intoday’sknowledgeeconomy,nationssurviveonthethingstheydo
IsThereaWaytoKeeptheBritain’sEconomyGrowing?1.Intoday’sknowledgeeconomy,nationssurviveonthethingstheydo
IsThereaWaytoKeeptheBritain’sEconomyGrowing?1.Intoday’sknowledgeeconomy,nationssurviveonthethingstheydo
TheScienceofPersuasionIfleadershipconsistsofgettingthingsdonethroughothers,thenpersuasionisoneoftheleader
TheScienceofPersuasionIfleadershipconsistsofgettingthingsdonethroughothers,thenpersuasionisoneoftheleader
随机试题
光期引起视杆细胞膜发生的变化是()
急性失血时,最先出现的代偿反应是
怀疑乳腺深部脓肿,下列哪项是最简单的诊断方法脓肿切开引流,切口的最佳选择是
胸骨角在体表可扪及,其两侧平对()。
绝大部分国家对()采用强制保险
甲企业委托乙企业加工一批收回后用于直接出售应税消费品的材料,甲、乙两企业均为一般纳税人,适用的增值税税率为17%,消费税税率为10%,甲企业对材料采用计划成本法核算。有关资料如下:(1)甲企业发出一批委托加工的材料,计划成本为80000元,材料成本差异率
在讲解“遗传信息的携带者——核酸”一节时,教师分析了DNA能作为警方寻找犯罪嫌疑人的重要材料后,提出问题:“DNA的什么特点能让其发挥这么大的作用呢?”这个问题属于()。
科学家发现,儿童时期不接触细菌和病菌,是5岁以下人群糖尿病病例近年来急剧增加的主要原因之一。而那些生活在农村的孩子由于更早接触到带菌的物质,有更多机会与宠物相处,患过敏症、哮喘和湿疹等疾病的几率反而很低。所以,将细菌消灭得过于彻底的环境可能反而会给儿童的健
边际成本
设计该计算机管理系统的E-R图。指出转换结果中每个关系模式的候选码。
最新回复
(
0
)