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A. The culprit is climate change, caused by society’s burning of fossil fuels. When it comes to global warming, farmers who are more attuned to weather patterns than most people—may be the proverbial canaries in the coalmine. The weather, of course, has never been exactly dependable—farmers have always been at the mercy of the vagaries of sun and rain. General weather patterns have at least been broadly predictable, allowing farmers to know when to sow their seeds, when to transplant, when to harvest. As weather patterns become less reliable, growers will be tested to develop new rhythms and systems for growing crops.
B. Most keyboard jockeys would die for the view from Orin Martin’s office window: apple trees in blossom, lines of citrus, dozens of varieties of flowers and neat rows of peppers and potatoes. Martin is a farmer in Santa Cruz, Cali~, where for the last 30 years he has been an instructor at the University of California’s agro-eco

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A. The culprit is climate change, caused by society’s burning of fossil fuels. When it comes to global warming, farmers who are more attuned to weather patterns than most people—may be the proverbial canaries in the coalmine. The weather, of course, has never been exactly dependable—farmers have always been at the mercy of the vagaries of sun and rain. General weather patterns have at least been broadly predictable, allowing farmers to know when to sow their seeds, when to transplant, when to harvest. As weather patterns become less reliable, growers will be tested to develop new rhythms and systems for growing crops.
B. Most keyboard jockeys would die for the view from Orin Martin’s office window: apple trees in blossom, lines of citrus, dozens of varieties of flowers and neat rows of peppers and potatoes. Martin is a farmer in Santa Cruz, Cali~, where for the last 30 years he has been an instructor at the University of California’s agro-eco

[填空题]Providing technical solutions to climate change might be easy, but it is hard to make ______.

[填空题]The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global Climate Coalition have similar aims.

[单项选择]Climate change can affect businesses in the following ways EXCEPT
A. flooding and storms.
B. snowstorms and hailstorms.
C. changing weather patterns.
D. instability and insecurity.

[单项选择]Today, world leaders are discussing climate change and what-if anything- can be done to combat global warming．Extreme weather conditions have brought home the fact that our climate is changing-and changing fast. It may be easy to be fatalistic about it, but the truth is that although we humans have caused the problem, we also have the solution. " Think global and act local, " said Friends of the Earth founder David Bower. In many small but important ways we can make a difference. Here are my top tips for how to begin:
Count your food miles. What you eat and where you buy it affects global emissions. Pollution from transport is the fastest growing source of carbon dioxide emissions, so it is madness to fly out-of-season vegetables across the world to supermarkets. We should lobby supermarkets for a system of classifying food according to the distance traveled: 0 for local food, 1 for British，2 for Europe, and 3 for intercontinental.
Turn off anything that winks at you. A video
A. Centralized distribution of food is highly efficient and cost-effective.
B. Organic food from abroad is better than food produced locally.
C. Supermarkets do a great job of offering a wide selection of goods。
D. It’s better for US consumers to shop in local farmers’ markets。

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Passage Four
Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday. An increase in harsh, arid conditions across the globe around 5,000 years ago forced people to start living in stable communities around remaining water sources. "We can certainly say that the earliest civilisations arose on the backdrop of increasing dryness, which are driven by natural, global-scale changes in climate," said Nick Brooks of the University of East Anglia. "The cultural transitions track changes in environmental conditions quite closely."
Dr. Brooks said his research turned traditional ideas of how the world’s first civilisations started--such as those in Egypt, China, the Indus Valley region and South America---on their head. Many anthropologists think that civilisation was spread gradually among populations after it began in some part of the world. ’A current popular th
A. differences in civilizations are the result of differences in climate conditions
B. the emergence of civilizations is closely related to climate change
C. the development of civilizations has caused the world climate change
D. similar civilizations have appeared despite various climate conditions

[简答题] Coping with Climate Change What we have learned so far about how climate changes is affecting our global environment. Studies show that it adversely affects human and natural systems by reducing biodiversity, impairing biological and chemical cycles and making it more difficult to restore degraded ecosystems. Climate is not the only factor in the deterioration of natural systems. We are making big changes to the landscape, altering land use and land cover in major ways. These changes combined present a challenge to environmental management. Adaptive management is a scientific approach to managing the adverse impacts of climate and landscape change. Nature and Impacts of Climate Change Every week it seems there is an article about global warming in the news media. It may be difficult for some to grasp the big picture of the issue, but in general, climate change has already or is expected to --increase temperatures, particularly in the