2016年12月英语四级阅读长篇阅读练习(四)

　　H. 0ver the weekend，after retracting his previous tweet，Rucker posted a link to a blog item about a different article.this one a 1932 New York Times story.The eighty-year-old headline reads，“The Next Great Deluge Forecast By Science：Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of the Seas and Flood the Continents.”That one sounded juicy,and，indeed，this time the text was correct：that really is what the headline said.Ironically,the lcad researcher cited in the piece was a German scientist named Alfred Wegener,who has sometimes been considered a hero of climate-change deniers for a completely different reason.Wegener is known for proposing the phenomenon of continental drift starting around the First Wbrid War,The idea was ridiculed before gaining acceptance in the nineteen-sixties，once

　　ample evidence had been amassed.Wegener’s lifc story,then，is used to support the idea that the small number of researchers in the field who downplay the risk of anthropogenic climate change will one day prevail.

　　I.In reality,the potential for anthropogenic global warming was being discussed earlier than continental drift.and took even longer to gain wide acceptance.The versatile Professor Wegener was a geophysicist and polar researcher who spent much of his career studying meteorology in Greenland，and trying to unlock the secrets of the Earth’s past.His elevated place in the current climate-change debate is

　　abstracted from history.

　　J.In any case，it’s not clear that the bloggers linking to the 1932 article read much beyond the headline.Thc article does discuss a collapse of the ice sheets that would raise sea levels by more than a hundred feet—but it says that event lies thirty to forty thousand years in the future.There’s nothing wrong with examining old newspaper articles for clues about climate conditions in the past.Legitimate climate researchers look at historical documents of all kinds.However,a good-faith effort to arrive at the truth would not rely on cherry-picking catchy headlines.It would require considering the context and looking at all the evidence.At the very least.it wouldn’t allow for deliberate distortions.A prediction that the ice caps might melt by the year 42，000 is hardly all example of climate alarmism.

　　46.Unlike melting ice in the glass，the melting sea ice cannot easily raise sea level.

　　47.Rucker maintains that the climate.change is just a terrible fantasy of the left-wing or even a totally distrustful matter.

　　48.It is fair to search for every piece of evidence to approach the truth without distortion.

　　49.As for Rucker,the clear purpose of tweeting this quotation is to laugh at the articles about climate change.

　　50.The various unusual phenomena about climate change are merely non-exist alarms claimed by the scientists and media，would be short-lived.

　　51.The drastic sea-ice melt occurred around Svalbard was only local and limited.

　　52.It is normal for the waters at northern latitude 8 1 degrees，29 minutes to be covered with ice.

　　53.It is embraced that the number of climate-change researchers will be multiplied one day.

　　54.It is ironic for the leading figure of climate-change opponents to quote this piece.

　　55.In reality,the universal information in articles about climate change is eventually proved to be unbelievable.

　　46.Unlike melting ice in the glass，the melting sea ice can not easily raise sea level.与杯中的融冰不同，海中的融冰不会使海面快速升高。

　　47.Rucker maintains that the climate change is just a terrible fantasy of the left-wing or even a totally distrustful matter.洛克认为气候变化的论点不过是左派的糟糕的幻想，甚至根本就是一个骗局。

　　48.Itisfairto searchfor everypiece ofevidence to approach the truth without distortion.努力寻找证据，真实地靠近真相，这点是不可争议的

　　49.As for Rucker,the clear purpose of tweeting this quotation is to laugh at the articles about climate change.洛克微博这条引语的用意很明显是在嘲笑有关气候变化的文章。

　　50.The various unusual phenomena about climate change are merely non.exist alarms claimed by the scientists and media，would be short-lived.各种有关气候变化的非正常现象不过是短暂的，是科学家和媒体所宣称的，本不存在的危言耸听。

　　51.The drastic sea-ice melt occurred around Sval bard was only local and limited.发生在斯瓦尔巴特群岛周围剧烈的海冰融化现象只是局部的。

　　52.It is normal for the waters at northern latitude 81 degrees，29 minutes to be covered with ice.照理说，北纬81度29分的水域应该是结冰的。

　　53.It is embraced that the number of climate-change researchers will be multiplied one day.终有一天，对气候变化研究的人员数量会不断增加。

　　54.It is ironic for the leading figure ofclimate-change opponents to quote this piece.作为气候变化反对者的英雄人物，引用这篇文章是很讽刺的。

　　55.In reality.the universal information in articles about climate change is eventually proved to be unbelievable.事实上，大量关于气候变化的信息最后都被证实是不可信的。