2022-2023年广东省汕头市大学英语6级大学英语六级重点汇总（含答案）.docxVIP

2022-2023年广东省汕头市大学英语6级大学英语六级重点汇总（含答案） 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________  一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题) 1.Moravecs idea of robotic immortality is approved by the author.A.Y B.N C.NG?2.Himalaya s Receding GlaciersThe great majority of the worlds glaciers appear to be declining at rates equal to or greater than long-established trends, according to early results from a joint NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) project designed to provide a global assessment of glaciers. At the same time, a small minority of glaciers are advancing.Scientists monitor only a few of Indias vital glaciers, which are receding by as much as 100 feet each year.Billions of people in China and the Indian subcontinent rely on South Asias Himalayan glaciers the worlds largest store of fresh water outside the polar ice caps. The massive ice floes feed seven of the worlds greatest Asian rivers in one of the worlds most densely populated regions.Yet as global climate change slowly melts glaciers from Africa to the Andes, scientists say the glaciers in the Himalayas are retreating air a rate of about 33 to 49 feet each year—faster than in any other part of the world.In the Himalayas, the Gangotri Glacier, one of Indias largest, is entitled to an even more dubious distinction. Recent studies reveal that the Gangotri, which forms a mass of ice about 18 miles long, is retreating at a rate of more than 100 feet a year. But according to government officials and environmental groups like Greenpeace, very little has been done in the way of a rigorous scientific study. Scientists are monitoring glacial melting on only a handful of the 7,000 glaciers that cover the Indian Himalayas.While ice reflects the suns rays, lake water absorbs and transmits heat more efficiently to the underlying ice, kicking off a feedback that creates further melting. And at such a rapid retreat, a gradual increase in droughts, flash floods, and landslides are not the only