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2014 年管理 类专业学位全国联考 英语（二）测试 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. For each numbered blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The idea that the world’s glaciers and ice caps move ever-so-slowly is so securely ingrained in our thinking that we have given it to metaphorical status. To say that something moves at “a glacial pace” is a way of saying that it __1__ moves at all. This is the way many people feel about our global climate as a whole----something that is moving along at an almost __2__ rate of change, possibly __3__ some nominal threat to somebody else in some distant future. For climate scientists, __4__, among people actually doing work in the field, a lot of the argument and the thinking about the __5__ of change is going in the opposite __6__ ---global climate is changing faster, bigger, and sooner __7__ later. The biggest changes have come in __8__ that have been seen as some of slowest movers in the climate system: the melting glaciers and the __9__ rise in global sea levels. As recently as 2007, the __10__ thinking by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change __11__ sea level rise as little as seven inches this century. Now all bets are __12__. In Greenland, scientists are gathering __13__ which show the ocean is warming more quickly than __14__, eroding the base of big outlet glaciers, __15__ their flows to the sea. Where this all leads __16__ uncertain, of course, but the data from the field is not __17__ to the idea of complacency. It is fair to say that our understanding of these changes is far from __18__, and it is a fair bet that more climate surprises are __19__. To borrow another glacial __20__, it may be the tip of the iceberg. 1.[A] actually [B] surely [C] never [D] hardly 2. [A] conceivable [B] imperce