（全国通用版）2019版高考英语大一轮复习 单元检测卷29 Unit 4 Global warming 新人教版选修6.docVIP

Unit 4 Global warming Ⅰ.阅读理解 A They may be tiny, and live for just three months, but ants could be the key to solving climate change. Rough harvester ants have been found to “weather” minerals in sand to produce calcium carbonate, also known as limestone(石灰岩)．When the ants make this limestone, the process traps carbon dioxide in the rock, ultimately removing it from the atmosphere. It is uncertain how the minerals are changed, however, and theories vary a lot from ants licking the sand to excreting (排泄) the substance. Professor Dorn buried sand at six sites in the Catalina Mountains in Ari