河北省定州中学2016-2017学年高二（承智班）上学期周练（12.2）英语试题

河北定州中学2016-2017学年第一学期高二承智班英语周练试题(10) 一、阅读理解 Climate change will bring greater extremes in weather, the Government’s chief scientific adviser has warned as he called for action to deal with global warming. Professor Sir John Beddington says the effects of climate change on the weather are already being felt in the UK. “In a sense we have moved from the idea of global warming to the idea of climate change, and that is rather important. Temperatures are increasing and there are more changes in our weather,” he said. Even if effective action is taken now on global warming, he says there will be great climate change over the next 20 to 25 years as a result of past global problems. “We have serious problems in the world - in 12 years there will be another billion people on the planet and we have big issues of food security, water security and energy security, and many people will start to be living in cities,” he said. “These are serious problem; climate change is just going to make it worse