2022年黑龙江省七台河市大学英语6级大学英语六级.docx

2022年黑龙江省七台河市大学英语6级大学英语六级 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________  一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题) 1.Has a Runaway Greenhouse Effect Begun? (Adapted)By Norm DixonUrgent Action for GovernmentsIn recent weeks, scientists have released two separate findings that indicate the consequences of global warming due to the emission of "greenhouse gases" primarily carbon dioxide (CO2) from the industrial burning of fossil fuels may be far greater than previously estimated.The new findings stress the need for governments around the world, in particular the industrialized First World countries that are responsible for more than 80% of past emissions and 75% currently, to take urgent action to massively reduce the world's industrial greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80%.Rajendra Pachauri, chairperson of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which pools the expertise of more than 2,000 of the world's climate scientists, warned on October 25 that the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets established in the 1997 Kyoto agreement do not go far enough and far more radical solutions must be found.Pachauri welcomed the Russian parliament's October 22 approval of the Kyoto agreement, which will allow the treaty to come into legal force despite the refusal by the world's major polluter, the United States, to sign. However, "this mustn't deceive us into thinking that the problem is solved", Pachauri told Reuters(路透社). "Kyoto is not enough. We have to look at the problem afresh. "The Kyoto treaty aims for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of around 5% of 1990 levels, far short o{ the 60-800/oo over the next 50 years necessary to arrest global warming.?CO2 Accumulation IncreasingThe new evidence on the pace of global warming suggests that world governments may have even less time to act than previously estimated. The October 11 British Guardian(英国卫报) reported that CO2 in the atmosphere is at record levels and incre