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  3. For millions of years, the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. But for the last century and a half,

For millions of years, the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. But for the last century and a half,

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问题      For millions of years, the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. But for the last century and a half, Earth’s average temperature has been rising【C1】______ than any time in the past ten thou- sand years. The【C2】______ in science is that much of that change has been driven by us.The climate is not what it used to be. It’s not your grandfather’s climate anymore.
     The【C3】 ______ are everywhere: droughts in the American Southwest and Africa’s Sahara(撒哈拉),【C4】______ seas in Louisiana and Bangladesh (孟加拉国), tropical diseases spreading north and extremes of weather from Florida to France.
     There are people who still say global warming needn’t【C5】______ us. If it’s happening at all, it’s a natural trend, not much we can do about it. But there is now hard【C6】______ which shows that the warming is not only real. It’s【C7】______ . It’s altering the climate’s most basic elements like rainfall and evaporation, days of sunshine and nighttime temperatures. Those changes are【C8】______   the environments in the agricultural production,【C9】______ wild species with extinction and putting at risk our life styles, our health, and some of our favorite cities by the sea. We’ll follow the signs and see who i f anyone is responsible. We’ll meet scientists who are【C10】______ new climate evidence and we’ll see what we can do to help.
   A) worry            F) signs           K) faster
   B) rising           G) vast            L) consensus
   C) troubles         H) investigating   M) threatening
   D) quickly          I) dangers         N) damaging
   E) evidence         J) accelerating    O) concern
【C6】
选项
答案E
解析 从句法结构看，该题应填入一个名词，作后面定语从句的主语，因为定语从句中的动词用的是第三人称单数，故判断这个名词应为单数或不可数名词。选项中符合这一要求的单词有E)evidence，L)consensus和O)concern三个单词。考虑到语境以及与hard的搭配，L)已选用，只有E)evidence最符合上下文语境。句意为“许多有力的证据证明气候变暖的真实性。”
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