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洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this Part. Each passage is followed by some questions or Unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.（这是一篇报道性的科普文章，文章的主题是气候变化对人类生存的影响。

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）When global warming finally came, it stuck with a vengeance (异乎寻常地). In some regions, temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century. Sea levels shot up nearly 400 feet, flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrate inland. Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically in North America, Europe and Asia. After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. The adaptation was farming: the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened more than l0,000 years ago.As environmentalists convene in rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global climate of the future, earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in understanding how climate has changed in the past --and how those changes have transformed human existence. Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating picture of the powerful geo1ogical and astronomical forces that have combined to change the planet’s environment from hot to cold, wet to dry and back again over a time Period stretching back hundreds of millions of years.Most important, scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes have had a major impact on the evolution of the human species. New research now suggests that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turning point in human evolution: from the dawn of Primates (灵长类动物) some 65 million years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs, from the huge expansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture. Indeed, the human history has not been merely touched by global climate change, some scientists argue, it has in some instances been driven by it.The new research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio. Among other things, the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothing new for planet Earth. The benign (宜人的) global environment that has existed over the past l0,000years - during which agriculture, writing, cities and most other features of civilization appeared -- is a mere bright spot in a much large pattern of widely varying climate over the ages. In fact the pattern of climate change in the past reveals that Earth’s climate will almost certainly go through dramatic changes inthe future -- even without the influence of human activity2l. Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged____________ .A) to give up his former way of lifeB) to leave the coastal areas.C) to follow the ever-shifting vegetationD) to abandon his original settlement.答案为 A)事实细节题。

见第一段的倒数第二句话After driving many of the animals around them to near extinction, people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radically new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. 在使周围的动物濒临灭绝之后，人们被迫放弃旧有的生活方式，采取一种全新的生活策略，这导致了大范围的饥荒和疾博22. Earth scientists have come to understand that climate____________ .A) is going trough a fundamental changeB) has been getting warmer for l0, 000 yearsC) will eventually change from hot to cold.D) has gone through Periodical changes答案为 D)事实细节题。

见第二段的第二句话Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating picture of the powerful geological and astronomical forces that have combined to change the pl anet’s environment from hot to cold, wet to dry and back again over a time period stretching back hundreds of millions of years. 研究人员拚凑起一辐具有启示意义的图画，揭示出正是地质和天文的巨大力量结合在一起，在过去的几百万年中使地球的环境由热到冷、由潮湿到干燥，周而复始地发生变化。

23. Scientists believe that human evolution____________ .A) has seldom been accompanied by climatic changesB) has exerted little influence on climatic changesC) has large1y been effected by climatic changesD) has had a major impact on climatic changes答案为C)主旨题。

本文的主题是气候变化对人类生存的影响。

在第二段的开头即提出了会议的内容，提到了“those changes have transformed human existence”；第三段的第一句话重申了这个主题，说“the climatic changes have had a m ajor impact on the evolution of the human species”，这句话倒过来即是本题题干加上选项C）的意思。