2017-2018学年高中英语 专题04 Global warming试题（含解析）新人教版选修6.docVIP

专题04 Global warming 全球变暖可能会使人类变矮 Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused the world’s first horses to shrunk nearly 50 million years ago. 　　In fact, a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says it has found a link between the earth heating up and the size of mammals—horses, in this case, the last time the world heated up. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest appearance 56 million years ago. 　　As temperatures went up their size went down, and vice versa; at one point they w