- A.the greenhouse effect
- B.the burning of fossil fuels
- C.the potential effect of air pollution
- D.the likelihood of a new ice age
- A.shares the same view with the scientists
- B.is uncertain of its occurrence
- C.rejects it as being ungrounded
- D.thinks that it will destroy the world soon
- A.raising the wodd’s temperature only a few degrees w.ould not do much.harm to life on earth
- B.lowering the world’s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster
- C.almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
- D.the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come
- A.slip into
- B.make up for
- C.set up
- D.catch up with
- A.is always
- B.hopes for a change
- C.never stops changing
- D.will live a different life
- As Dointed out at the beginning of the passage,people used to think that air pollution__________ .
- A.caused widespread damage in the countryside
- B.affected the entire eastern half of the United States
- C.had a damaging effect on health
- D.existed merely in urban and industries areas
- A.man has been growing taller over the past 500 years
- B.man has got stronger eyes than he ever had
- C.man’s hair is getting thinner and thinner
- D.man’s limbs are getting weaker because he tends to make less use of them
- A.he will use of only about 20%of the brain’S capacity
- B.the other 80%of his brain will grow in due time.
- C.he had rather narrow forehead a few hundred years ago
- D.he will have to use his brain more and more as time goes on
- A.have smaller eyes
- B.see better
- C.have larger eyes
- D.gave to wear better glasses