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高考冲关第19练 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2013·青岛模拟)A new study finds that the man-made climate change started about 2,000 years ago, when the Roman Empire and Chinas Han Dynasty enjoyed prosperity. The 200-year period saw a big rise in greenhouse gases. The discovery challenges the UN view that man-made climate change only began around 1800. Celia Sapart of Utrecht University in the Netherlands and his team studied the record of the atmosphere trapped in Greenlands ice and found the level of heat-trapping methane(甲烷) rose about 2,000 years ago and stayed at that higher level for about two centuries. Methane was p