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UNIT 3 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Reading and Thinking
What consequences may the climate change cause?
Lead in
no habitat
drought
flood
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What consequences have you learnt?
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Before you read,look at the graph and the picture below and discuss these questions in groups.
1 What is the graph about? What information can you get from it?
The graph shows the change in the Global Surface Temperature between 1920 and 2016. It shows the temperature anomaly,which shows how much the temperature has risen above what it would usually be at a base level.
2 Have you ever seen the photo before? What might be the story behind it?
I haven’t seen this photo,but I have seen photos like it. The story is that the
polar bear starved to death because it could not find enough to eat.
CLIMATE CHANGE
REQUIRES THE WORLD’S ATTENTION
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阅读理解(根据课文内容选择正确答案)
1. What’s the function of the first paragraph of the text?
A. To introduce the topic.
B. To tell us climate change has been known for decades.
C. To show the evidence of climate change.
D. To confirm that Earth is getting warmer and warmer.
2. Why is the photo of a dead polar bear mentioned?
A. To describe how people were shocked.
B. To show how global warming influenced Earth’s ecology.
C. To study how the bear died.
D. To explain why the bear was starved to death.
3. What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. How global warming has come about.
B. The “greenhouse effect” has two common meanings.
C. The “natural” greenhouse effect is more important than the “man-made” greenhouse effect.
D. The “man-made” greenhouse effect has become a serious problem.
4. Why does climate change require the world’s attention?
A. The number of polar bears is smaller and smaller.
B. News reports are often broadcast about extreme rainstorms and heatwaves causing deaths and losses.
C. Governments can force people to reduce “carbon footprint”.
D. It is affecting all of us on the planet and if it is left alone,we will pay an even higher price.
CLIMAT