An important scientific report announced “irrefutable proof that climate change

An important scientific report announced“irrefutable（不能反驳的）proof” that climate change is happening and it’s all our fault. How long has itbeen before people are against the global warming idea? But here’s a funnything. Last year there was a very bad hurricane season in the Caribbean when,among other disasters, New Orleans was all but wiped off the map. We werewisely informed by the experts at the time that this was owing to globalwarming.

I remember watching a BBC science programmeand hearing a learned professor with a beard tell us, “The increased frequencyand strength of hurricanes is what we shall have to learn to expect givenglobal warming.”

This year there have been far fewerhurricanes and those there have been were relatively mild. Why？Global warming again of course.Professor Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, writes, “Inthe constant media reports of possible greenhouse related disasters, almost anyevent is now linked to climate change.” He adds, “We should not spend vastamounts of money to cut a tiny slice of the global temperature increase whenthis leads to a poor use of resources and when we could probably use thesefunds far more effectively in the developing world.” For saying this, Lomborghas had death threats.

Other scientists who do not toe the globalwarming-is-happening-and-it’s-all-our-fault line have received the same. Thereare plenty of people who count against global warming. A world of seniorclimatologists and meteorologists wrote to the Times last year to complain thatthey couldn’t get their research findings published — because they disagreed toit. We have had a warm autumn. The experts,  fanatics（狂热者） all of them, put it downto global warming. If we have an extra cold winter, they will tell us it’s aresult of global warming. If my big toe feels cold or hurts badly, it will beowing to global warming.

52. The purpose of this passage may be to____.

A. support the idea of global warming 

B. organize a debate about global warming

C. speak out against the global warmingidea

D. encourage people to use moneyeffectively

53. What happened to New Orleans last year?

A. It was badlydestroyed.                         B. It disappeared in the world.

C. It witnessed globalwarming.              D. It experienced several disasters.

54. From the passage, we can infer that____.

A. people are taking too many efforts tostop global warming

B. people have realized the side effect ofdevelopment

C. a different idea sometimes may cost onehis life

D. the majority usually stand for thecorrect opinion

55. The main idea of the last paragraph maybe ____.

A. global warming may lead to toe’scatching cold in a sense

B. the Times refuses to publish articles onglobal warming

C. a warming autumn is not related toglobal warming at all

D. it is certainly incorrect to oweeverything to global warming

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52-55 CAAD    

【解析】略