2021届全国卷新高考英语阅读与写作专题拓展提升（14）

2021全国卷新高考英语阅读与写作专题拓展提升（14） 全球封锁期间，为什么二氧化碳并没有大幅减少？ 导读 全球约有40亿人居家保持社交隔离，以阻止新型冠状病毒的传播。与这个庞大的数字相比，全球温室气体的减少似乎微不足道。   双语阅读 “If you assume a proportional decline in [gross domestic product] and emissions, what feels like an economical catastrophe is a fairly modest reduction in emissions compared to where we need to go,” said Trevor Houser, who leads climate and energy research at the Rhodium Group, a research firm. 荣鼎咨询研究公司的气候与能源研究主管特雷弗•豪泽表示，“如果你假设[国内生产总值]与碳排放量是成比例下降的，那么相较于我们应该达到的目标，这一有限的碳排放量减少值感觉像是一场经济灾难。” 1.proportional 成比例的 If one amount is proportional toanother, the two amounts increase anddecrease at the same rate so there isalways the same relationship between them. 2.modest 谦逊；较小的 You use modest to describe something such as an amount, rate, orimprovement which is fairly small. 3.what feels like an economical catastrophe /is a fairly modest reduction →a fairly modest reduction feels like an economical catastrophe 我看到有些同学把decline和economical catastrophe连在一起，我只能说，他俩都不在同一句啊喂！先找清楚结构，不要着