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It is the year 2050, and April blizzards have gripped southern England for the third successive year while violent storms batter

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问题     It is the year 2050, and April blizzards have gripped southern England for the third successive year while violent storms batter the North Sea coast. The Gulf Stream, whose wanning waters once heated our shores, has long since disappeared, destroyed by a deluge pouring south from the melting Arctic icecap.
    In the United States, much of Alaska has turned into a quagmire as permafrost and glaciers disintegrate. In Colorado, chair lift pylons stand rusting in the warm drizzle, remainders that the nation once supported a billion-dollar ski industry, while the remnants of Florida are declared America’ s second island state.
    Africa is faring badly. Its coastline from Cairo to Lagos is completely folded and many of the major cities have been abandoned. Tens of millions of people have been forced to flee and are struggling to survive in a parched, waterless interior.
    In Asia there is a similar, terrifying picture. Bangladesh is almost totally inundated and the East Indies have been reduced to a few drippy islands. Tens of millions stand on the brink of death.
    It is a startling scenario worthy of a science fiction disaster film. And it would be easy to dismiss , were it not for the uncomfortable fact that these visions are the result of rigorous scientific analysis by some of the world’ s most distinguished climatologists.
    As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC)points out in its recent Climate Change 2001 report, global wanning is likely to trigger a cascade of unpleasant effects; elderly people will suffer and die in smoggy, polluted cities; crops will fail; and wildlife and livestock will perish on a scorched and miserable planet.
    That report was the combined work of several thousand of the world’ s leading meteorological experts and scientists whose views George Bush has now dismissed as "questionable" and whose work in creating the Kyoto 10 protocol has been utterly undone.
    The US decision to pull out of the international accord on climate change has caused predictable international alarm. Kyoto merely pledged developed countries to restrict their industrial output. " It was an excellent first step towards reversing climate change," according to Southampton University ’ s professor Nigel Arnell.
    Kyoto was, in effect, a statement of intent. The industrial nations, which had, after all, initiated the problem of global warming, would show their commitment by making the first crucial, self-sacrificing moves. Then the Third World could be drawn in, and the first decreases in carbon-dioxide emissions agreed over the next few years. "Bush has now made the attainment of these next crucial steps much more difficult," says Arnell. In fact, most experts believe he has made them impossible. If the West won’t act, why should the rest of the world?
We can infer from the passage that______.
选项 A、in 2050 Florida will become America’ s second island state
B、floods will destroy the whole Africa
C、tens of millions of people will die in 2050
D、global warming will lead to a catastrophe for the whole human world
答案D
解析 文章的2、3、4段提到美国的永冻层和冰河解体了，冰雪融化了，滑雪产业瘫痪，佛罗里达州未被水淹没的残存部分成为美国第二个岛州；非洲从开罗到拉各斯的海岸线完全被水淹没；亚洲也是一幅类似的恐怖画面。从这些可以推断出环境的破坏都是由全球变暖引起的，全球变暖会导致人类世界的灾难。
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