2020高考英语人教版一轮复习:选修八 Unit 1 课时作业(含答案解析)
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1、课时作业.阅读理解A(2017江苏 D)Old Problem,New ApproachesWhile clean energy is increasingly used in our daily life,global warning will continue for some decades after CO2 emissions(排放 ) peak.So even if emission were to begin decrease today,we would still face the challenge of adapting to climate.Here I will st
2、ress some smarter and more creative examples of climate adaptation.When it comes to adaptation,it is important to understand that climate change is a process.We are therefore not talking about adapting to a new standard,but to a constantly shifting set of conditions.This is why in part at least,the
3、US National Climate Assessment says that: “ there_is_no_onesize_fit_all_adaptation. ” Nevertheless,there are some actions that offer much and carry little risk or cost.Around the world people are adapting in surprising ways,especially in some poor countries.Floods have some more damaging in Banglade
4、sh in recent decades.Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster.His notforprofit organization runs 100 river boats that server as floating libraries,schools,and health clinics,and are equipment with solar panels and other communication facilities.Rezwan is creating floating conne
5、ctivity (连体) to replace flooded roads and highways.But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff people how to make floating gardens fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.Elsewhere in Asia even more astonishing actions are being taken.Chewang.Nophel lives in a mount
6、ainous region in India,where he is known as the Ice Man.The loss of glaciers(冰川)there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.Without the glaciers, water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops.Norphels inspiration come from seeing the waste of water ov
7、er winter,when it was not needed.He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze,and was stored until the spring.His fields of ice supply perfectly timed irrigation(灌溉) water.Having created nine such ice reserves.Nophel calculates that he has stored about 200,000 m3 of water.Climate
8、change is a continuing process,so Norhels ice reserves will not last forever.Warming will overtake them.But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will,perhaps,be able to find other means of adapting.Increasing Earths reflectiveness can cool the planet.In southern Spain the sudden incr
9、ease of greenhouses (which reflect light back to space) has changed the warming trend locally,and actually cooled the region.While Spain as a whole is heating up quickly,temperatures near the greenhouses have decreased.This example should act as an inspiration for all cities.By painting buildings wh
10、ite,cities may slow down the warming process.In Peni,local farmers around a mountain with a glacier that has already fallen victim to climate change have begun painting the entire mountain peak white in the hope that the added reflectiveness will restore the lifegiving ice.The outcome is still far f
11、rom clear.But the World Bank has included the project on its list of “100 ideas to save the planet”More ordinary forms of adaptation are happening everywhere.A friend of mine owns an area of land in western Victoria.Over five generations the land has been too wet for cropping.But during the past dec
12、ade declining rainfall has allows him to plant highly profitable crops.Farmers in many countries are also adapting like thiseither by growing new produce,or by growing the same things differently.This is common sense,But some suggestions for adapting are not.When the polluting industries argue that
13、weve lost the battle to control carbon pollution and have no choice but to adapt,its a nonsense designed to make the case for business as usual.Human beings will continue to adapt to the changing climate in both ordinary and astonishing ways.But the most sensible form of adaptation is surely to adap
14、t our energy systems to emit less carbon pollution.After all,if we adapt in the way,we may avoid the need to change in so many others.【语篇解读】 文章关注的是我们熟悉的话题气候变暖,不同的是,文章给出了一些应对气候变暖的新途径。1The underlined part in Paragraph 2 implies _.Aadaptation is an everchanging process Bthe cost of adaptation varies wi
15、th timeCglobal warming affects adaptation forms Dadaptation to climate change is challenging【答案】 A 推理判断。onesize fit all 意为“通用的,万全之策”,句意:不存在通用的适应性方法。下句 Nevertheless 表转折,再根据“there are some actions that offer much and carry little risk or cost”可知,没有放之四海而皆准的方法,即适应是需要根据情况不断做出调整,而非一成不变的。2What is special w
16、ith regard to Rezwans project?AThe project receives government support. BDifferent organizations work with each other.CHis organization makes the best of a bad situation.DThe project connects flooded roads and highways.【答案】 C 细节理解题。根据第四段“Mohammed Rezwan saw opportunity where others saw only disaster
17、.”可知,Rezwan 会从危机中看到机遇,会充分利用现有条件。3What did the Ice Man do to reduce the effect of global warming?AStoring ice for future use. BProtecting the glaciers from melting.CChanging the irrigation time. DPostponing the melting of the glaciers.【答案】 A 细节理解题。根据第五段“Norphels inspiration come from seeing the waste
18、 of water over winter,when it was not needed.He directed the wasted water into shallow basins where it froze,and was stored until the spring.”可知,把冰川融化后的水储存起来以备不时之需,是减少气候变暖危害的方法之一。4What do we learn from the Peru example?AWhite paint is usually safe for buildings. BThe global warming trend cannot be s
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