填空题 {{B}}Direction:{{/B}} In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
An estimated 7,000 properties around England and Wales will be sacrificed to rising seas over the next century, according to the Environment Agency. Analysis by the Agency, based on current funding levels, projects that more than 800 will be lost over the next 20 years as coastlines erode. The cost of protecting these properties is {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}to be too high. The Environment Agency estimates that more than ￡1bn worth of properties will disappear as a result.
Local groups are campaigning for {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}if they are forced out of their homes. The government has {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}this call, which could {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}a precedent for paying damages to people affected by climate change. Friends of the Earth has {{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}the government of dumping the costs of climate change on to vulnerable people.
An Environment Agency spokesperson told BBC News: "The recent announcement of ￡2.3bn investment over the next six years will see {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}investment in coastal flood and erosion risk management, with 15,000 properties better protected from coastal erosion over the next six years. The Environment Agency uses a {{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}} {{/U}}of advanced techniques to monitor and assess the causes and impacts of coastal erosion." The Agency said the estimates of flood damage were calculated as part of a {{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}exercise and had not been {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}published. The Agency has been told by government to prioritise (优先考虑) flood defences in areas in heavily {{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}areas. This is why agricultural land on the Somerset Levels was allowed to flood last winter.
A. previously
B. populated
C. improvement
D. accused
E. compensation
F. considered
G. resisted
H. additionally
I. neglect
J. available
K. routine
L. distributed
M. range
N. significant
O. set