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  3. Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, d

Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, d

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问题     Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the share of people who believe pollution caused by humans is causing temperatures to rise has also taken a dip, even as the US and world forums gear up for(准备)possible action against climate change.
    In a poll of 1,500 adults released by the Pew Research Centre for the People & the Press, the number of people saying there is strong scientific evidence that the Earth has gotten warmer over the past few decades is down from 71 percent in April of last year and from 77 percent when Pew started asking the question in 2006. The number of people who see the situation as a serious problem also has declined.
    The steepest drop has occurred during the past year, as Congress and the Obama administration have taken steps to control heat-trapping emissions for the first time and international negotiations for a new treaty to slow global warming have been under way. At the same time, there has been mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world’s oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer.
    The poll was released a day after 18 scientific organisations wrote Congress to reaffirm the consensus behind global warming. A federal government report recently found that global warming is upsetting the Arctic’s thermostat(恒温器).
    Only about a third, or 36 percent of the respondents, feel that human activities — such as pollution from power plants, factories and automobiles — are behind a temperature increase. That’s down from 47 percent from 2006 through last year’s poll.
    "The priority that people give to pollution and environmental concerns and a whole host of other issues is down because of the economy and because of the focus on other things," suggested Andrew Kohut, the director of the research center, which conducted the poll from Sept. 30 to Oct. 4. "When the focus is on other things, people forget and see these issues as less grave," Andrew Weaver said, a professor of climate analysis at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, "and politics could be drowning out scientific awareness."
Andrew Kohut and Andrew Weaver have the same opinion that______.
选项 A、leaders’ policies prevent people from paying attention to pollution and environment
B、government should keep people aware of the bad effects of global warming
C、the focus on other things makes people pay less attention to global warming issues
D、it is the economic situation that makes people concern pollution and environment less
答案C
解析 根据题干中的Andrew Kohut and Andrew Weaver将本题出处定位于最后一段。该段介绍了安德鲁·柯哈特和安德鲁·维夫的观点。第1句提到安德鲁·柯哈特认为人们给予污染和环境问题及一系列其他议题的优先权下降主要是由经济和对其他事情的关注导致的，最后一句又提到安德鲁·维夫认为当人们关注其他事情时，就会忘记环境和污染的议题或是认为它们没那么重要，由此可知他们两人的共同观点应是C)中的内容。D)项是安德鲁·柯哈特的观点，不是安德鲁·维夫的，故排除。A)、B)项是对文中最后一句policies…a
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