[单项选择]Is the climate of Italy （　）
A. similar like Florida
B. somewhat similar like Florida
C. so much like Florida
D. somewhat like that of Florida

[填空题]Latitiude affects climate by lowering temperatures as the height above sea level increases.,

[填空题]Climate deterioration should take partial responsibility for the extinction of freshwater fish.

[填空题]Scientists gather information about climate systems and use this information to ______.

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

[单项选择]Climate scientists need to swallow their mistrusts and share their data and working methods with their critics. So concludes an inquiry by British members of parliament into the "climategate" affair, in which damaging emails were copied from a computer server at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, and published on the Internet. But, unexpectedly, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has placed more blame on the university than on the scientists at its Climatic Research Unit (CRU), whose emails were stolen, and the unit’s director Phil Jones.
This verdict puts the official university inquiry launched last December in a strange position. Vice-chancellor Edward Acton asked the inquiry to report on possible misdeeds at CRU. Now MPs suggest that the university itself may be at least as much to blame. The MPs found that the leaked emails reveal that a "culture of withholding information appears to have pervaded CRU that we consider unacceptable". Some inform
A. to share their information with the public
B. to take more responsibility for the affair
C. to be open to their critics about their date and approaches
D. to examine the computer server at the university of east Anglia in Norwich

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Understanding how nature responds to climate change will require monitoring key life cycle events—flowering, the appearance of leaves, the first frog calls of the spring—all around the world. But ecologists can’t be everywhere so they’re turning to non-scientists, sometimes called citizen scientists, for help.
Climate scientists are not present everywhere. Because there are so many places in the world and not enough scientists to observe all of them, they’re asking for your help in observing signs of climate change across the world. The citizen scientist movement encourages ordinary people to observe a very specific research interest—birds, trees, flowers budding, etc.—and send their observations to a giant database to be observed by professional scientists. This helps a small number of scientists track a large amount of data that they would never be able to gather on their own. Much like citizen journalists helping large publicat
A. to provide their personal life cycles
B. to observe the life cycle of plants
C. to collect data of the life cycle of living things
D. to teach children knowledge about climate change

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

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Climate and Clothing
August is late-summer in Beijing, with an average temperature of 26.6 degrees Celsius. Light clothes and a suit for formal occasions would be appropriate.
Currency and Exchange
Major credit cards like Mastercard, American Express and Visa are accepted in most big shopping centers and hotels. Major currencies can be changed into Chinese yuan (RMB) at the airport, hotels or the Bank of China at a rate of about US$1.00 to RMB8.00.
Time Difference
China Time is 8 hours ahead of GMT.
Electricity
The local voltage is 200-240 volts AC.
Telecommunications
Modern telecommunication facilities such as International Direct Dial, Internet access and fax are available in the hotels.
Tipping(小费)
Tipping is not expected by service attendants in China, except for some tour guides, hotel porters and housemaids.