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  3. Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields in some countries—to such an extent that it may be a

Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields in some countries—to such an extent that it may be a

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问题     Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields in some countries—to such an extent that it may be a factor in the food price (1)______ that have caused worldwide stress in recent years, researchers suggest in a new study.
    Wheat yields in recent years were down by more than 10 percent in Russia and by a few percentage points (2)______ in India, France and China compared with(3)______ they probably would have been without rising(4)______, according to the study.
    Corn yields were(5)______ a few percentage points in China, Brazil and France from what would have been (6)______, said the researchers, whose findings were published in Friday’s (7)______ of the journal Science.
    Some countries saw small gains from the temperature increases, however. And in all countries, the(8)______ carbon dioxide that humans are (9)______ into the air acted as a (10)______ that encouraged plant growth,(11)______ some of the losses from rising temperatures caused by that same greenhouse gas.
     (12)______, the study’s authors found that when the gains in some countries were weighed(13)______ the losses in other countries, the overall global(14)______ of climate change has been small so far: losses of a few percentage points for wheat and corn from what they would have been (15)______ climate change. The general impact on production of rice and soybeans was(16)______, with gains in some regions entirely counterbalancing losses in others.
     (17)______ the authors of the study pointed out that temperature increases were expected to(18)______ in coming decades, making it likely that the challenges(19)______ food production will grow in a era when demand is expected to(20)_____ sharply.
(8)
选项 A、extra
B、overt
C、extraordinary
D、exceeding
答案A
解析 词义辨析题。此处需要选一个形容词描述人类排放的二氧化碳的量，根据这段话结尾处的greenhouse gas“温室气体”，可知要填一个能够表示过量排放的词，所以选择extra“超额的，过量的”。overt“公开的。明白的”，extraordinary“不平常的，不普通的”；exceeding“极度的，超越的”，均不能表示某事物过量的意思，所以可以排除。
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