选修6 Unit 4 Global warmingke课文填空.doc

选修6 Unit 4 Global warming-Reading THE EARTH IS BECOMING WARMER-BUT DOES IT MATTER? During the 20th century the temperature of the earth rose about one degree Fahrenheit. That probably does not seem much to you or me, but it is a rapid increase _______________ other natural changes. So _____________________ and does it matter? Earth Care’s Sophie Armstrong explores these questions. ____________________ the earth is becoming warmer (see Graph 1) and that ____________________________ this global warming ________________________ ____________________________. All scientists ___________ the view that the increase in the earths temperature is _________ the burning of fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil to produce energy. Some byproducts of this process are called greenhouse gases, ___________ ___________________ is carbon dioxide. Dr Janice Foster explains: There is a _________________ that scientists call the greenhouse effect. This is when _______ __________ gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour, trap heat from the sun and ___________ warm the earth. Without the greenhouse effect, the earth would be about thirty-three degrees Celsius cooler than it is. So, we need those gases. The problem begins when we add huge _____________ extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It means that more heat energy ______________ _____ in the atmosphere __________ the global temperature to _________. We know that the levels of carbon dioxide ___________________ over the last 100 to 150 years. It was a scientist called Charles Keeling, who ______________ ___________ of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 1957 to 1997. He found that between these years the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went up from around 315 parts to around 370 parts per million (see Graph 2). All scientists accept this data. They also agree that it is the burning of more and more fossil fuels that ______________ this incre