单选题
People in Europe are shivering, while people in North Asia and parts of Australia are feeling uncomfortably hot. Scientists say these weather extremes are to be expected and neither
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can be used as a case for or against global warming.
Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Michel Jarraud, says people should not confuse
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weather variability with climate change. Just because people in Geneva and elsewhere in Europe are
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does not mean global warming has stopped. He says the
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toward global warming is still there. "I think we have to be careful not to interpret any single event
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a proof of either warming or the fact that warming has stopped. When scientists look at the global warming, they take into
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much old possible available evidence.
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, we cannot explain any single phenomenon by one single cause."
He says average global surface temperatures have climbed
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since 1850, when historical weather statistics were first recorded. "Global warming will mean that heat waves like the one we got in Western Europe in 2003 will become more
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. But, it does not mean that the 2003 heat wave was produced by global warming..." he says.
Scientists say human activity
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to climate change, but they do not agree on the pace at which climate change may be unfolding.
【答案解析】[考点] 固定搭配
[解析] 本题要求填入一个能与句中动词interpret搭配的介词。四个介词中能与该动词搭配的只有D项as,“interpret...as”意为“把……理解为;领会”,如:I didn"t know whether to interpret her silence as acceptance or refusal(我不知该把她的沉默看作是接受还是拒绝)。本句的意思是:我认为我们必须小心,不把任何单一的事件理解为气候变暖或气候变暖已经停止。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[考点] 固定搭配
[解析] 本题要求填入一个名词,与take into构成固定搭配。四个选项中,能与这两个词构成固定搭配的只有A项account,take sth. into account意为“考虑到……”,take的宾语为much old possible available evidence。整个句子的意思是:当科学家研究全球变暖时,他们会把许多过去可能获得的证据都考虑在内。B项estimate意为“估计”,C项judgment意为“判断”,D项analysis意为“分析”,均不符合题意。