2021高考英语一轮复习Unit4Globalwarming课时作业新人教版选修6英语练习题.pdfVIP

　Unit 4　Global warming Ⅰ.阅读理解 A [2020·兰州实战模拟]The effect of climate change extends beyond ruining Earths environment and our physical safety. A report published this week suggests that climate change has a negative effect on our mental health, too. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), links an increase in monthly temperatures to a rise in mental health issues. The experimental evidence stems from meteorological (气象学的) data paired with information collected from nearly 2 million randomly sampled residents in the United States. The data was collected over the span (跨度) of a decade. “We find that experiences with hotter temperatures and added rainfall each worsen mental health, that long­lasting warming associates with an increased popularity of mental health issues, and that exposure to tropical cyclones (热带气旋), likely to increase in frequency in the future, is linked to worsened mental health，” authors of the study stated. “These results provide added large­scale evidence to the growing link between climate change and mental health.” The report specifically focused on mental health outcomes due to the effects of environmental stress — such as temperature, rainfall, and tropical cyclones — but other climate change­related issues are likely to affect mental health as well — specifically, the stress and anxiety of knowing natural disasters could be more frequent as temperatures rise. 1．From the newly­published report, we learn that the climate change may ________. A．save a lot of peoples lives B．cause unbelievable disasters C．influence peoples mental health D．greatly change peoples life styles 2．Why did the author mention “the span of a decade” in Paragraph 2? A．To stress the importance