问答题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and troy to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The lost reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.
You will then be given 2 minutes to cheek through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
Now listen to the passage.

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Global Warming
Global warming is heating the planet twice as quickly as previously feared./Temperatures could soar by nearly 6℃ this century/--faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years,/warns a UN report released recently ./The report warns that a temperature rise of up to 5.8℃ ,/with the warming of the oceans and melting of polar icecaps,/will force sea levels to rise by as much as 3 feet,/making tens of millions of people in Bangladesh and Egypt homeless. /Parts of lowland Britain are also at risk./
Scientists believe the predicted rise, which will bring storms, floods and droughts,/will be partly due to a reduction in air pollution . /The report was issued at a meeting in Shanghai./It's said that a reduction in emissions of sulphur dioxide,/which causes acid rain, has increased the impact of greenhouse gases. /These gases trap the sun's heat whereas sulphur dioxide cools the atmosphere.