单选题The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it 25 our kids. AI Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even though the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, estimating that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When 26 with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change. This 27 is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying 28 about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, for example, on 29 warming's impact on malaria (疟疾)—which will put slightly more people at risk in 100 years—instead of tackling the half a billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be. 30 also wears out the public's willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is doomed, people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A 31 of people now believe incorrectly—that global warming is not even caused by humans. But the worst cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the 32 alarm that it causes—particularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal 33 from global warming. The newspaper also reported that parents are searching for 'productive' outlets for their eight-year-olds' obsessions (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary to common belief, the global polar bear population has 34 and perhaps even quadrupled (成为四倍) over the past half-century, to about 22 000. Despite diminishing—and eventually disappearing—summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct. A. terrifies B. excessively C. unnecessary D. argument E. extinction F. Exaggeration G. confronted H. doubled I. majority J. global K. equipped L. disgusts M. ignorantly N. suppresses O. urgent

单选题All flights in and out Tianhe Airport came to a ______ because of the snowstorm.

单选题American women were ______ the right to vote until 1920.

单选题Peter: ______ Cathleen: Do you know that place next to the travel agency on South Street? Peter: Sure. I'll go and have a look.

单选题Participants in the Shanghai Cooperation Forum______regional teamwork to promote investment and economic development.

单选题______ your work in case you've made any mistakes.

单选题The airline ______ me for the amount they had overcharged me.

单选题He spends his time in ______ complaints rather than acting.

单选题Suppose a consumer finds fault in his tape recorder, what would he say to the store manager?

单选题When the mixture is used, it is important to ______.

单选题______ to find the proper job, he decided to give up job-hunting in this city. A) Failed B) Being failed C) To fail D) Having failed

单选题Tom likes ______ foreign coins.

单选题The author says children in the city seldom went to the woods and the fields because ______.

单选题Everyone has faced the embarrassing______of deciding how much extra to give a waiter or taxi-driver.

单选题He swallows his words so much that I can never ______ what he is saying. A. make out B. put up C. deal with D. take up

单选题As we know, ______ most dangerous enemies are those who pretend to be friends.

单选题Mail service will be temporarily______because of the strike of the postal workers. A. suspended B. abridged C. deprived D. lessened

单选题War is the social cancer of mankind. It is a pernicious form of ignorance, for it destroys not only its "enemies", but also the whole superstructure of what it is a part—and thus eventually it defeats itself.

单选题The house they have bought is in very bad repair. The old boiler in the kitchen needs ______.

单选题The word "carcinogenic" means most nearly the same as ______.