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原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 1 - 2023 年 阅读理解+完形填空 增强训练 高一年级 精选中高难度语篇 上海四校、八校、一二模考题 分年级分层训练 培优生专用 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！ 2 Test 2 Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A A．efficiency B．employ C．effective D．chemicals E．accelerating F．existing G．projected H．trapped I．power J．simultaneously K．artificially This past July was the hottest recorded month in human history. Heat waves smashed temperature records worldwide and even brought summer temperatures to Chile and Argentina during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter. It’s more than just a matter of sweaty discomfort. In the U.S. alone, it kills more people each year than floods, tornadoes and hurricanes combined. As climate change worsens, access to 1 cooled spaces is rapidly becoming a health necessity. Yet standard air-conditioning systems have 2 us in a vicious cycle: the hotter it is, the more people use the AC—and the more energy is used as a result. Nicole Miranda, an engineer researching sustainable cooling at the University of Oxford says: “it’s not only a vicious cycle, but it’s a(n) 3 one.” According to 2018 data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), the worldwide annual energy demand from cooling is 4 to more than triple by 2050. It’s becoming increasingly clear that humans cannot outrun climate change with the same air-conditioning technology we’ve been using. One well-known problem with current AC systems is their reliance on refrigerant 5 , many of which are potential greenhouse gases. About 80 percent of a standard AC unit’s climate-warming emissions currently come from the energy used to 6 it, says Nihar Shah, director of the Global Cooling Efficiency Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Standard air-conditioning systems 7 cool and dehumidify through a relatively inefficient mechanism: in order to condense water out of the air, they overcool that air past the point of comfort. Many