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2021年雅思考试真题及答案 一、READING 1 READING PASSAGE 3 、 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below. Accentuate the negative Jul 5th 2010, 10:11 by The Economist online 　　A FOR everyone else what the picture showed was the glaciers: for the Dutch it was the floodingLast January errors in the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hit the headlinesThe chapter on Asia in the report by the IPCCs second working group, charged with looking at the impact of climate change and adapting to it, mistakenly claimed that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035This contradicted some reasonably basic physics, had not been predicted by the glacier specialists in the first working group and was unsupported by any evidenceThere was a report from the 1990s which said something similar about all the worlds non-polar glaciers, but it gave the date as 2350Then there was a crucial typo and some shoddy referencingNevertheless the IPCCs chair, Rajendra Pachauri, had lashed out at people bringing the criticism up, accusing them of “voodoo science”He then had to eat his words, and set up a panel to look into ways the IPCC might be improved. 　　B Inspired by this to look for other errors, a journalist for a Dutch newspaper spotted that the chapter on Europe gave a figure for the area of the Netherlands below sea level that was much too largeThe area at risk of flooding by the sea had been conflated with that at risk of flooding by the Rhine and the Meuse riversThat the careful Dutch should have provided faulty information and not spotted it in the review process was an embarrassment to the environment minister, Jacqueline Cramer; following a debate in parliament she called on the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), to look at all the regional c