【南方新课堂】2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit4 Global warming过关检测 新人教版选修6.docVIP

Unit4 Global warming (时间:90分钟　满分:120分) Ⅰ.阅读理解(共两节,满分40分) 第一节(共12小题;每小题2.5分,满分30分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。 A (导学 Beijing had its biggest snowfall since 1951.Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap(寒潮) since 1981.And freezing weather is hitting the Deep South,including Florida’s orange groves and beaches. Whatever happened to global warming? Such weather doesn’t seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases.But experts say the cold snap doesn’t contradict global warming at all—it’s just a temporary phenomenon in the long-term heating trend.“It’s part of natural variability,” said Gerald Meehl,a senior scientist.“With global warming”,he said,“we’ll still have cold temperatures.We’ll just have fewer of them.” Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes.But experts did not connect the current cold snap to climate change. So what is going on? “We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere”,Arndt said. In the atmosphere,large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics.This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air restricted.But recently,this air flow has become bent into a zigzag(之字形) pattern,wandering north and south.If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south,you get warm weather.In fact,record highs were reported this week in Washington State and Alaska. But in the eastern United States,like some other unlucky parts of the globe,Arctic air is coming from the north.And that’s how you get a temperature of 3 degrees centigrade in Beijing,a reading of minus 42 degrees centigrade in mainland Norway,and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain.The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time,but it is not clear why it’s so strong right now. 1.What is the main idea of the text? A.Freezing