[中学联盟]河南省太康县第一高级中学2016-2017学年高一下学期第一次开学考试英语试题

高一年级英语试题 第一部分: 听力(共两节,满分30分)略 第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分) 第1节 (15小题,每小题2分,共30分) A A rising population is one of the main reasons that there is global warming. Between 1650 and 1850 the population increased by 0.75 billion people going from 0.25 billion to one billion. From 1930 to the end of the century the population rose from two billion to over six billion. In just a third of the time the population rose by more than five times what it did before. It is expected that this trend in the changing population will continue and could even heighten. The growing population requires increasing amounts of energy. These energy demands and other supplies require production, which almost always involves the emission of greenhouse gases. The more the population increases the more greenhouse gases that are produced and the greater the increase in temperature. The burning of fossil fuels is one of the best-known causes for global warming. The major reason for fossil fuels contributing so much