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Air pollution is one of the most pervasive environmental problems because atmospheric currents can carry contaminated air to eve

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问题    Air pollution is one of the most pervasive environmental problems because
atmospheric currents can carry contaminated air to every part of the globe.
Most air pollution comes from automobile emissions and from power plants
what burn coal and oil to produce energy for industrial and consumer use.             【S1】______.
Carbon dioxide and other harmful gases releasing into the air from these sources      【S2】______.
adversely effect weather patterns and the health of people, animals and plants.       【S3】______.
   Industrialized nations produce most of the world’s air pollution. For
example, because the United States is home to just 5 percent of the world’s           【S4】______.
population, the country generates 22 percent of human-made carbon dioxide
emissions or 19 percent of all greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and            【S5】______.
methane. These emissions harm the environment by leading acid rain and                【S6】______.
global warming, and by depleting(使衰竭) the protective ozone layer which
surround the earth.                                                                   【S7】______.
   Acid rain, a serious threat around the world, occurs when sulfur dioxide
and nitrogen oxide emissions from automobiles and fossil-fuel burning power
plants to fall back to Earth as acidic precipitation. Acid rain has contaminated      【S8】______.
many lakes in Canada and the northeast United States and has been documented
even in the non-industrial state of Hawaii. In the United Kingdom, 57
percent of all trees are severely defoliated(使落叶) owe to corrosive fallout, and    【S9】______.
production of food crops has been declined in many parts of the world. Acid           【S10】______
rain has eroded the surfaces of great art and architectural treasures, including
the ancient sculptures of Rome and the Sphinx in Egypt.
【S4】
选项
答案because→although
解析 从上下文看，本句的意思是“美国的人口只占世界人口的5%，却制造出22%的人造二氧化碳……”，前一分句用了"just"一词，和后面形成了强烈的对比，因此这两个分句之间是转折关系，而不是因果关系，前一分句前应该用although 引导。
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