八年级下英语unit6.docxVIP

I Skim the text What is the main topic of the article? II Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks. Scientists Scientists Janice Foster Opinion We need 1 like carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour, but if we add huge 2 extra carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning to go up. fossil fuels, it will cause the 3 Janice Foster Over the next 100 years the amount of warming could be as low as 1 to 1.5 degrees Celsius, but it could be as high as 5 degrees Celsius.◆ An increase of five degrees would be a 4 . George Hambley Believes that we shouldn’t worry about 5 carbon dioxide in the air . of Predicts that any warming will be mild with few bad environmental 6 . 7 that more carbon dioxide is actually a 8 thing, which will make life for human beings better. Choose the best answers. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text? The temperature of the earth increased about one degree Fahrenheit during the 20th century. The carbon dioxide content in the air increased by 70 parts per million from 1957 to 1997. All scientists accept the data in graph 2 except Charles Keeling. Janice Foster says that more carbon dioxide will make plants grow faster. Which of the following is Dr Janice Foster’s opinion? The result of the temperature increase will be serious. The amount of warming is nothing serious. We needn’t worry about high levels of carbon dioxide. Global warming is a natural phenomenon. [原句] There is no doubt that the earth is becoming warmer (see Graph 1) and that it is human activity that has caused this global warming rather than a random but natural phenomenon. [翻译] [点拨] 此句是一个复合句。主句是 ；从句是由 and 连接的两个并列的 从句，即：that the earth is becoming warmer 和 that it is human activity that has caused this global warming rather than a random but natural phenomenon。这两个同位语从句都由 引导，用来解释说明 doubt 的内容。此外，第二个同位语从句用的是 句式，强调 。 Without the ‘green house e，fftehcete’arth would be about thirty-three degrees Celsius cooler than it is. 这