What would happen if the sea level rose 25 metres? What kind of planet would we live on if global temperatures went up two or three degrees Celsius?
A recent report by the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) makes depressing reading．It says the earth would be a totally different place if temperatures went up．
James Hansen who led the study explains that, “If warming is kept less than one degree Celsius, the effects of global warming may be relatively manageable．” But he said, “If it rose 2 to 3 degrees the sea level would be about 25 meters higher than today．”
What effects would a 25-metre increase in sea level have? Well, it would leave Shanghai’s under 23 metres of water．Its 17 million residents would have to leave, or be washed away．Around the world billions of people would have to give up their homes and jobs to escape floods．
Humans would not be the only ones affected．If global warming continues, animals and humans will be forced to share a much smaller amount of land．Moreover, along with the rise in world population, can you guess the result of more people living on less land? It will mean greater competition for resources like food and clean water．Competition could easily become conflict．
But Professor Thomas Gale Moore of Stanford University, California, US, disagrees．In an article titled “Why Global Warming Would be Good for You”, Moore argues that” 6,000 years ago the earth experienced much hotter temperatures? The desert was full of plants? There was plenty of water for humans and animals．”
NASA says the rise in temperature is related to so-called greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide．But Moore claims this is wrong．“Some scientists believe that ‘polluting’ gasses cause temperatures to rise．In the past, temperatures rose before levels of gasses, not after gasses rose．”
The professor concludes that sea levels will rise by no more than 30 centimetres and this will not be noticed by most people around the world．
(1)
The story is mainly written to ________．
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A．
explain the different causes of global warming
B．
analyze how people will be affected by global warming
C．
show scientists hold different opinions about global warming
D．
remind people to do more to protect the environment
(2)
Which of the following below shows the right order, according to James Hansen?
a．polluting gases
b．rising sea level
c．human activity
d．global warming
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A．
abcd
B．
acdb
C．
cadb
D．
cabd
(3)
According to Thomas Gale Moore, we know that ________．
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A．
there is no need to worry about temperature increases
B．
deserts form because of rising temperatures
C．
the rise in temperature is related to some gasses
D．
the sharp rise in sea level will not do great harm
(4)
From the story, we can conclude that ________．
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A．
global warming is completely the result of human activities
B．
there will be more sea but less land on earth in the future
C．
a lot of research has been done to deal with global warming
D．
we still don’t know for sure how bad the effects of global warming will be
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．
But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．
(1)
The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．
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A．
it made Christive evil
B．
it was the apple of Eden
C．
it came from a forbidden land
D．
it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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A．
The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B．
There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C．
The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D．
Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
(3)
What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?
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A．
To manke imself a hero
B．
To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
C．
To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D．
To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
(4)
What is the main purpose of the passage?
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A．
To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
B．
To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
C．
To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
D．
To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
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