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. . 自主学习 3 Part I Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write the corresponding letter for each item in the blank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 1 to 10 are based on the following passage. Domestic laws, not a global treaty, are the way to fight global warming. Governments like to cite 1)__constraints(限制) such as meeting the conditions for an international difficulty when pushing through unpopular policies. But with measures to 2)___ with climate change, the opposite prevails. Each round of intergovernmental talks on cutting 3)___ and compensating victims seems to achieve less than the one before. Meanwhile, according to a new study the number of new domestic environment laws rose quickly. And the overall trend is a strong increase in legal activism. Last year Mexico passed an important law to guide all its climate-change 4)___ . Some people define what counts as a climate law is hard when so much 5)___ the environment. The number of laws alone is not the 6)___ measure: some are comprehensive and other specific. Rules set by other layers of government may 7)___ more than the national kind. And just because a law passes does not mean it will do any good. Yet Sam Fankhauser of the London School of Economics says the rise in national legislation helps stop the skeptics’ claim that it is self-defeating for a country to act alone on climate change. He also points out that many big countries still have a way to go. The study 8)___ the weak link between global action and domestic change. Holding a big climate conference 9)___ a series of laws a couple of years later. But by and 10)___voters appear more willing to acce