单选题 The work on atmospheric chlorofiuorocarbons (氯氟化碳) led eventually to a global CFC ban that saved us from ozone-layer reduction. Do we have time to do a similar thing with carbon emissions to save ourselves from climate change?
Not a hope at all. Most of the "green" stuff is very close to a big trick. Carbon trading, with its huge government grants, is just what finance and industry wanted. It's not going to do a thing about climate change, but it'll make a lot of money for a lot of people and postpone the moment of reckoning.
I am not against renewable energy, but to spoil all the decent countryside in the UK with wind farms is driving me mad. It's absolutely unnecessary, and it takes 2,500 square kilometers to produce a gigawatt (十亿瓦特)—that's an awful lot of countryside.
Work to sequester (隔离) CO₂ (carbon dioxide) is also a waste of time. It's a crazyidea—and dangerous. It would take so long and use so much energy that it will not bedone.
And, nuclear power is a way for the UK to solve its energy problems, but it is not aglobal cure for climate change. It is too late for emissions reduction measures.
Yet we are not doomed. There is one way we could save ourselves and that is through the massive burial of charcoal (木炭) . It would mean farmers turning all their agricultural waste—which contains carbon that the plants have spent the summer sequestering—into charcoal, and burying it in the soil. Then you can start shifting vast quantities of carbon out of the system and pull the CO₂ down quite fast.
What we can do is getting farmers to bum their crop waste at very low oxygen levels to turn it into charcoal, which the farmer then ploughs into the field. A little CO₂ is released but the bulk of it gets converted to carbon. You get a few per cent of bio-fuel as an additional product of the burning process, which the farmer can sell. This scheme would need no subsidy (补贴) : the farmer would make a profit. This is the one thing we can do that will make a difference.

单选题 According to the passage, carbon trading ______.
A. probably saves people from climate change
B. benefits some financially but not environmentally
C. has contributed a lot to carbon emissions reduction
D. makes huge money for governments around the world

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的carbon trading将本题出处定位于第2段。该段末句主要说明碳交易的影响，B中的benehts some financially与该句的make a lot of money for a lot of people对应，not environmentally与not going to do a thing about climate change对应，故答案为B。A、C与该句提到的It's not going to do a thing about climate change矛盾，故排除；D是对with its huge goverment grants“需要大量政府补贴”的错误理解，故排除。

单选题 What does the author say about wind farms in Britain?
A. The gain does not equal to the loss.
B. They can help solve world's energy problems.
C. They would be perfect if they take up smaller space.
D. They will waste the government lots of time and money.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的wind farms将本题出处定位于第3段。该段首句提到，作者无法容忍风力发电场对英国城郊环境的破坏，下一句解释说明原因：这绝对没有必要，而且还要占用2500平方公里的面积——这可是极大的乡村面积——去发十亿瓦特的电。由此可推断出，作者认为风力发电场得不偿失，故答案为A。B、D在文中未提及，故排除；C是根据an awful lot of countryside进行的过度推断。

单选题 What's the author's opinion on nuclear power?
A. It's one of the emission reduction measures that should be advocated.
B. It's only applicable to Britain but not the whole world in emission reduction.
C. It's of no help to the current global climate as a slow way to pull CO₂ down.
D. It's a good way to solve both the energy and pollution problems in the world.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的nuclear power将本题出处定位于第5段。该段提到作者对核能的看法：对于英国而言，核能是解决能源问题的一个办法，但它不能改善全球性的气候变化。实施削减排放量的措施为时已晚。由此可知，作者认为把核能作为消减二氧化碳排放量的方法对改善全球性的气候变化起不到作用，故答案为C。A与It is too late for emissions reduction measures矛盾；核能能够帮英国解决energy problems，不是emission reduction，故排除B；D与作者提到的not a global cure for climate change矛盾，故排除。

单选题 To reduce carbon emission fast in the world, the author suggests ______.
A. capturing and sequestering CO₂ in the air
B. building more nuclear power plants
C. planting more trees to absorb CO₂
D. burying burnt crop waste into the field

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的reduce carbon emission fast将本题出处定位于第6段。该段第3句提到作者所建议的减少碳排放量的具体做法：农民将他们的农业废弃物转化为木炭，然后埋入土壤中。末句提到这样做的效果：大量减少大气中的碳，并快速降低二氧化碳量。第7段首句提到如何将农业废弃物转化为木炭：让农民在低氧状态下燃烧农作物尾料，将其转变为木炭。由此可知，为了快速减少世界上的碳排放量，作者建议把燃烧过的农业废弃物埋入土壤，故答案为D。A与第4段首句矛盾，故排除；B可由上题解析排除；C在文中未提及。

单选题 According to the passage, one advantage of the author's proposal is that ______.
A. it can produce charcoal most of which can be used as fuel
B. it doesn't involve any international cooperation or negotiation
C. it brings extra income to farmers and saves government money
D. it needs no advanced technology or expensive equipment

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干中的the author's proposal将本题出处定位于末段。该段首句提到了作者建议的具体做法，倒数第二句提到这一做法的优点，C项中的it brings extra income to farmers与该句提到的the farmer would make a profit对应，saves government money与need to subsidy对应，故答案为C。文中提到在低氧状态下燃烧农作物尾料，将其转变为木炭，在燃烧过程中，还可以获得少量副产品：生物燃料，A中的most与原文的a few per cent矛盾，故排除。B、D两项在文中均未提及，故排除。