单选题 The pharmaceutical (制药的) giant Bayer has made a remarkable—and lucrative—discovery. Allergies are on the rise. The company's eye and nose ointment Bepanthen, already good for more than $ 200 million in annual sales, could soon be in even higher demand.
Bayer mentions this in its annual response to the watchdog CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, which surveys the greenhouse gas emissions of the world's largest corporations. The CDP celebrates companies that cut carbon, of course, but also celebrates brutal honesty, awarding prizes and A rankings to those that give a true and full accounting of how climate change could affect their bottom lines. Bayer is a winner on both counts. Though still high, its emissions are down nearly 40% from 1990 levels. And the company is transparent about what it believes a warming world will bring.
One of Bayer's latest products is 'a new generation of mosquito net,' the LifeNet. It also has two advanced bug sprays in the pipeline. These will be lucrative because mosquitoes and the disease they carry are expected to thrive in a warmer world, leaving another 40 to 60 million people at risk of malaria in Africa alone. 'In light of an expected climate-change-related increase of malaria incidents in further regions of the world (e.g., Northern Europe), we expect a growing demand for Bayer mosquito nets,' the company writes.
Americans often frame climate change as a tragedy of the commons: We all pursue our selfish lives, we all emit, and together we all will someday pay. But this is a dangerous way to understand the future and our responsibilities to it. That some are planning to get rich from the warming world only underscores the reality of climate change: Its impacts, though mostly bad for most people in most places, are deeply uneven.
It happens that those largely responsible for the historic emissions that got us here—wealthy North Americans and Europeans—are the most likely to stay relatively prosperous, because we have our northerly geographies and we have enough money in our wallets for, say, high-performance polycarbonate building materials. It happens that those least responsible for historic emissions, the equatorial and the poor, are the most likely to see the worst impacts, likely to get poorer faster. This unevenness suggests that self-interest, however rational, may never be enough to jumpstart real climate action in the wealthy countries where it's most needed. It's hard to scare people into cutting emissions if they're not actually all that scared.
There's nothing wrong with selling mosquito nets, and there's nothing wrong with buying them. But there's something wrong if we ignore the true ethical stakes as an ever more imbalanced world keeps lurching ahead, blithely thinking, 'At least we're all in this together.'

单选题 What has the pharmaceutical giant Bayer discovered?______

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】根据题目中的the pharmaceutical giant Bayer将本题出处定位至首段。首段前两句指出，制药业巨头拜耳公司有了一个重要的、有“钱”景的发现——过敏症正呈上升趋势。第二句其实是对首句的补充说明。C是对第二句的同义转述，故为正确答案。 A“它的碳排放量已经大大降低”、B“会有越来越多的人感染疟疾”、D“全球变暖的影响会发生明显不平衡”都是对本文中内容的客观陈述，并不是拜耳公司的发现，故排除。

单选题 Bayer was celebrated by CDP for its ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】根据题目中的celebrated和CDP将本题出处定位至第二段。第二段第二句指出，CDP不仅表彰那些减少碳排放的公司，而且还表彰那些敢于坦诚阐述气候变化是如何影响它们底线收益的公司。第三句说，拜耳公司在这两方面都是赢家，该段最后两句对第三句进行了进一步的补充说明。B正是拜耳公司受到肯定和表彰的原因之一，故为正确答案。 A“高排放量”是对该段倒数第二句的曲解，故排除。C“高生产率”和D“高售价”的内容与拜耳公司被CDP表彰并无关系。故排除。

单选题 Why were Bayer's new products expected to be highly demanded?______

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】根据题目中的Bayer's new products将本题出处定位至第三段。第三段前两句介绍了拜耳公司最近研制的新产品，包括新一代的蚊帐生命网和喷雾杀虫剂，第三句和第四句紧接着指出，这些产品将会很有市场前景，因为蚊子及其携带的病毒往往会在温暖的环境中繁殖，这会使更多的人面临感染疟疾的风险，此外，一些与气候变化相关的疟疾也将会威胁人们的健康。A是对第三、四句的同义转述，故为正确答案。 B“随着气候变化。疟疾将会威胁非洲”是对原文第三句的片面理解，原文只是以非洲为例进行说明而已。C“全球气候变暖，人类寿命也会缩短”和D“随着气候的变化，旧一代的蚊帐将会过时”的说法在原文中找不到依据，是想当然的推测，故排除。

单选题 What does the author mean by saying 'Its impacts.., are deeply uneven.'?______

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】根据题目中的“Its impacts...are deeply uneven.”将本题出处定位至第四段和第五段。第四段末句中指出，气候变化的影响极度不均衡。第五段承接该句进行了详细阐述：这种不均衡性体现在，那些在历史上曾经大量排放碳的国家——北美和欧洲国家——现在依然保持繁荣发展，他们并没有为曾经的行为买单；而恰恰是那些在历史上并没有怎么排放碳的国家——那些赤道国家和贫穷国家——却在承受碳排放的后果，即气候变暖后导致的一系列问题。C是对第五段内容的综合概述，较好地解释了第四段末句，故为正确答案。 A“碳的大量排放使贫穷的国家害怕，并没有使富裕的国家害怕”是对第五段末句的曲解，故排除。B“碳排放加速富裕国家的繁荣，并不是贫穷国家”是对第五段第二句的错误理解，故排除。文中并未提及到the southern hemisphere，D“碳排放污染是南半球的贫穷国家，并不是北半球的富裕国家”是对第五段中northerly geographies的过度理解，故排除。

单选题 In the author's opinion, Bayer's big profit intended from global warming is ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本题考查作者对拜耳公司从全球气候变暖中获利行为的态度，可综合全文进行解答。本文以拜耳公司针对全球变暖而开发新产品说开去，就全球气候变暖这种现象发表了作者自己的观点。其中，第一、二、三、六段都有涉及到拜耳的产品及相关内容，在前三段中作者并未明确表明自己对拜耳公司的态度，但是第六段则承接第四、五段的内容，作者则明确表明了自己的态度：拜耳公司售卖蚊帐的行为并没有错，错的是人们现在的道德观念。可见作者对拜耳公司从全球气候变暖中获利行为持不责备的态度，故答案为A。 B“有害的”、C“非法的”、D“应得的”都不是作者的态度，故排除。