话题拓展03.气候变化-2024年新高考英语题型精析精练与话题拓展

2024年新高考英语题型精析精练与话题拓展 03.气候变化 一、阅读理解 1 Rhough temperature records from December have yet to be finalized, climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have found there’s a more than 99%chance that 2023 will have the hottest recorded global average temperature, beating out 2016, the previous leader. The year will be the hottest in 174 years of second-keeping where humans have directly measured the temperature of the planet. It’s also likely to be the hottest in the last 125,000 years, which scientists measure by rebuilding temperature records from physical evidence like tree rings and layers of polar ice that have grown over time. The record-breaking year caused fuel climate-driven disasters around the globe from extreme heat that hit Arizona for weeks to floods in Libya and record-hot oceans that caused coral to bleach (变白) off Florida. Scientists say the extreme temperatures are in line with forecasts (预测) for how the planet will continue to warm. The biggest driver of the heat is the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (大气层) from burning fossil fuels (化石燃料). “We know why this is happening,” says Zeke Hausfather, climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, a non-profit organization that studies climate trends. “A year like this would not have occurred without the trillion tons of carbon we’ve put into the atmosphere over the last century.” Even with the chart-topping heat this year, next year could be equally as hot. A strong El Nino has already begun, where ocean temperatures warm up in the eastern Pacific. El Nino years are typically hotter, because a large amount of heat that’s stored in the ocean is sent to the atmosphere. “There’s absolutely still time to act,” an expert says. “Everything we do to change course today will make things better in the future.” 1. What can be inferred from paragraph 1? A. 2016 is likely to have the hottest global temperature. B. The temperature records of 2023 have been finished. C. Humans began to