Unit3 2 Using Language，Assessing Your Progress & Video Time（作业）-2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册【精讲精练】人教版

[课时作业] [限时30分钟] Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Old Problem, New Approaches While clean energy is increasingly used in our daily life, global warming will continue for some decades after CO2 emissions(排放) peak.So even if emissions were to begin to decrease today, we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate change.Here I will stress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation. When it comes to adaptation, it is important to understand that climate change is a process.We are therefore not talking about adapting to a new standard, but to a constantly shifting set of conditions.This is why, in part at least, the US National Climate Assessment says that: “There is no ‘one­size fits all’ adaptation.” Nevertheless, there are some actions that offer much and carry little risk or cost. Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.Floods have become more damaging in Bangladesh in recent decades.Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster.His not­for­profit organization runs 100 river boats that serve as floating libraries, schools, and health clinics, and are equipped with solar panels and other communicating facilities.Rezwan is creating floating connectivity(连接) to replace flooded roads and highways.But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds to prevent starvation during the wet season. Elsewhere in Asia even more astonishing actions are being taken.Chewang Norphel lives in a mountainous region in India, where he is known as the Ice Man.The loss of glaciers(冰川) there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.Without the glaciers, water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops.Norphel's inspiration came from seeing the waste of water over winter, when it was not needed.He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze, and was stored until the spring.His fields of ic