专题 05 气候变化，零碳排放 --2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (5) Climate change气候变化 Heat island热岛 主题语境：人与自然 主题语境内容：人与环境 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） On March 13th, as commuters（每日往返上班者） streamed out of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a gothic revival masterpiece（哥特式复兴建筑——贾特拉帕蒂·希瓦吉终点站） in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, they were confronted with temperatures approaching 40°C, nearly 7°C above normal for the time of year. The city is in the midst of a debilitating heatwave, its 13th in the past five decades, nearly half of which occurred in the past 15 years. Mumbai’s average temperature has increased by over 1°C in that period. Had those commuters crossed the street from the station and entered the city’s  grand headquarters that day, they might have found cause for optimism. That afternoon politicians from the authority and the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital, had gathered to unveil （揭露）a “climate action plan”. The city aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, two decades earlier than