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only two miles farther to the tavern (客栈) ," said the driver. "I’m glad of that," answered the stranger, in a more sympathetic way. He meant to say more but the east wind blew clear down a man’s throat if he tried to speak. The girl’s voice was quite attractive; however, later he spoke again. "You don’t feel the cold so much at twenty below zero in the Western country. There isn’t such damp chill (潮冷)", he said, and then it seemed as if he had blamed the uncomplaining young driver. She had not even said that it was a bad day, and he began to be conscious of a warm hopefulness of spirit, and sense of pleasant adventure under all the woolen scarves. "You’ll have a cold drive going back," he said anxiously, and put up his hand for the twentieth time to see if his coat collar was as A. One mile. B. About four miles. C. Two miles. D. Less than four miles. [简答题]It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.
[单项选择]Rainforests may store much less carbon than we thought. It could be time to dramatically revise our estimates following the discovery that apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts of the stuff. The finding is important because there are plans for governments worldwide to compensate tropical countries for protecting their forests as "carbon sinks" to curb global warming. If carbon cannot be counted, then dollars cannot be disbursed (支付).
Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, and colleagues say they used satellite mapping, laser probing of forest undergrowth from aircraft and local ground surveys across a large area of Peruvian rainforest to crack the problem of estimating how much carbon is locked up in forests. But the new technique has revealed a large, previously unknown variability in the density of carbon stored in apparently similar forests. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that there should be about A. Forests can’t be used as "carbon sinks". B. Carbon can’t be stored in rainforest. C. Compensation can’t be distributed. D. Global warming can’t be curbed. [填空题]We are welcomed ______ (warm) than we had expected.
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