小练(20) Unit 5 阅读完形提分练5-【赢在微点】轻松课堂2023-2024学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第二册（外研版）

小练(二十)　阅读完形提分练5 阅读理解　体裁:说明文　主题语境:人与自然　难度:★★★☆☆ 　　As climate change becomes severe summer after summer, millions of people are finding themselves covered in wildfire smoke, including those in North America just this past month. It is bad for our health. It is also really disturbing, but we don􀆳t talk about that as much. We often use the terms “atmosphere” or “climate” to refer to the mood of a situation. We use metaphors (比喻) to describe affective states, such as “feeling under the weather” or “on cloud nine”. Such language suggests that we understand that human emotions are intimately related to the atmospheric phenomena. Yet rarely do we pay attention to the ways we feel climate change. But wildfire smoke shows how affective climate change can be. For example, wildfire smoke is often referred to using emotional phrases such as “air of dread”. Through living with the smoke and the panic it generates, we can think more carefully about the ways we experience climate change, and crucially, why and how we need to respond to it. We often think of climate change impacts as far away, separate from our bodies, because science typically uses global representations and statistical information. But wildfire smoke spreads and pollutes our bodies, and indeed, crosses many other boundaries; it drifts from rural areas into big cities; and it crosses state and national borders with ease. Of course, some borders are more permeable (渗透的), and some bodies more sensitive to the smoke. Through its ability to pass through and become part of our very being, wildfire smoke is closer in nature to the air pollution we normally think of as one of the causes of climate change. Wildfire smoke is both an impact and a cause of climate change. It explains the nature of climate change impacts and the self⁃reinforcing (自我强化) feedback circles that can, and may, lead to the planet warming itself independent of human actions. 　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了气候变化导致野火不断,其产生的烟雾加强了人们对气候变化的认识。 1.What can we learn