课时作业29 Environmental Protection-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（人教版）

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3+ 课时作业 29　 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2022·福建省龙岩市模拟) Greenhouse-gas emissions have produced the planet more than 1℃ (1. 8℉) warmer than it was in the pre-industrial days. Its atmosphere is producing heavy weather in ways both predicted and surprising. And, with emissions continuing, it will get worse. Unfortunately, 2021 will probably be one of the 21st century􀆳s coolest years. If temperatures rise by 3℃ above pre-industrial levels in the coming decades—as they might even if everyone manages to honour today􀆳s firm promises—large parts of the tropics risk becoming too hot for outdoor work. Coral reefs and the livelihood that depend on them will disappear and the Amazon rainforest will become a ghost of itself. Severe harvest failures will be commonplace. Ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland will shrink (缩小) past the point of no return, promising sea rises measured not in millimetres, as today􀆳s are, but in metres. Six years ago, in Paris, the countries of the world committed themselves to avoiding the worst of that nightmare by removing greenhouse-gas emissions quickly enough to hold the temperature rise below 2℃. Their progress towards that end remains seriously inadequate. Yet even if their efforts increased dramatically enough to meet the 2℃ goal, it would not stop forests from burning today; prairies ( 草 原 ) would still dry out tomorrow, rivers break their banks and mountain glaciers disappear. Cutting emissions is thus not enough. The world also urgently needs to invest in adapting to t