53.解析：这是一道细节推断题。第三段“Instead of stealing
cars，he lets someone else do
it and then waits for the car－owner
to place an ad in the newspaper asking for help.”表明他从报纸广告上知道如何与汽车司机联系。
第7题(2005年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语全国卷Ⅱ(不含听力卷))
You might think
that “global warming” means nothing more than a rise in the world’s temperature
But rising sea levels caused by it have resulted in the first evacuation(撤离)of an island nation-the
citizens of Tuvalu will have to leave their homeland.
During the 20th century
,sea level rose 8-12 inches. As a result .Tuvalu has experienced lowland
flooding of salt water which has polluted the country’s drinking water.
Paani Laupepa , a
Tuvaluan government official ,reported to the Earth Policy Institute that the
nation suffered an unusually high number of fierce storms in the past ten years
.Many scientists connect higher surface water temperatures resulting from
global warming to greater and more damaging storms.
Laupepa expressed
dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol,
an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions(导致温室效应的气体排放),which are a main cause of global warming . “By refusing
to sign the agreement ,the US
has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to
live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told
the BBC.
Tuvalu has asked Australia
and New Zealand
to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries .
Tuvalu is not the only
country that is vulnerable (易受影响的)to rising sea levels .Maumoon Gayoon ,president of the Maldives
,told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an
“endangered nation”.