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1、2022年考博英语-中国传媒大学考试题库及模拟押密卷（含答案解析）1. 单选题If you wanted to question whether global warming is indeed upon us, last week was not the time to do it. Two weeks before the official beginning of summer, a heat wave baked the eastern third of the U.S. and Canada, driving temperatures high into the 90s and ev
2、en 100s. At the same time, a flurry of scientific papers was released that seemed to explain all the late-spring suffering. In one study, French researchers reported that heat-trapping greenhouse gases are at their highest levels in 420,000 years. In another, U.S. scientists found that 57 species of
3、 butterfly may be altering their migratory patterns in response to changing heat patterns.In light of all this, a sweltering public must have been convinced at last that its time to do something to cool off the overheated planet, right? Wrong. Even as the temperature was climbing, a new survey by th
4、e American Geophysical Union found that Americans are less concerned than ever about combating global warming. The more we talk about warming, says the studys director, John Immerwahr, the more the publics concern goes down.Such an environmental disconnect may not be much of a mystery. Environmental
5、ists complain that over the past two years industry groups have launched a coordinated advertising campaign to torpedo the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which requires industrial nations to reduce greenhouse emissions. More than $13 million has been spent on ads to block ratification of the treaty by the U.S.
6、Senate. The purpose of the ads was to convince most Americans that there isnt a problem or that its too expensive to fix, says National Environmental Trust spokesman Peter Kelly.Environmentalists also criticize the U.S. Presidents for what they believe is their failure to press the issue. For exampl
7、e, in the year of 1997, President Clinton moved for Kyoto treaty changes that environmental groups see as industry-pleasing loopholes. Says Daniel Weiss, the Sierra Clubs political director: Timid leaders communicate hopelessness. And hopelessness breeds indifference. If such popular so-whating pers
8、ists, Immerwahr warns, the public may begin grasping at phony solutions to global warming. At the end of last week, some people took comfort from the report of a vast haze of pollutants that collects over the Indian Ocean in the winter, but that researchers only recently studied. Filthy as the cloud
9、 is, it does deflect solar radiation, and that could lead to cooling. But scientists warn that we cannot simply pollute our way out of global warming. The soot drops from the hazy atmosphere in weeks, whereas greenhouse gases remain for centuries.The way out of this gridlock, environmentalists say,
10、is to show its possible to reduce greenhouse gases without sinking the economy. Solutions include cleaner cars and better wind- and solar-power technologies. Says Greg Wetstone, program director for the Natural Resources Defense Council: When these kinds of options become available, people will feel
11、 less hopeless. Of course, its also possible that only when people feel less hopeless will they press their leaders to make the solutions available.1. According to the author, global warming is （）.2. Speaking of global warming, American public is （）.3. The publics reaction to global warming is mainl
12、y a result of （）.4. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?5. It can be inferred from the passage that （）.问题1选项A.causing a lot of troubleB.not as serious as it seemsC.felt only in America and CanadaD.what accounts for the high level of greenhouse gases问题2选项A.concernedB.indifferentC.w
13、orriedD.frightened问题3选项A.their disbelief of the existence of such problemB.the advertising campaign of industrial groupsC.the high cost of fixing the problemD.American Senates disapproval of Kyoto treaty问题4选项A.Environmentalists urge President Clinton administration to press the issue.B.Kyoto treaty
14、aims at curbing the global warming problem.C.American government is partly responsible for the publics attitude toward global warmingD.Industrial groups do not care about global warming.问题5选项A.environmentalists support the idea of solving global warming through pollutionB.the poor leadership of Amer
15、ican President has produced a very bad influenceC.American economy will suffer if global warming is curbedD.people have no confidence in solving problem of global warming【答案】第1题:A第2题:B第3题:B第4题:A第5题:B【解析】1.细节事实题。题干询问：根据作者(的观点)，全球变暖是什么？根据原文第一段可知，在夏季正式开始的前两周，一股热浪席卷了美国东部三分之一的地区和加拿大，将气温推高至华氏90多度甚至100多度。在
16、一项研究中，法国研究人员报告称，吸热的温室气体达到了42万年来的最高水平。在另一项研究中，美国科学家发现57种蝴蝶可能会改变它们的迁徙模式，以应对不断变化的热度。由此可见，全球变暖带来了很多问题和影响，它已经确确实实存在于我们身边。所以A选项“产生许多麻烦”表述正确。2.细节事实题。题干询问：谈及全球变暖，美国民众是什么样的态度？ A选项concerned表示“担忧的”；B选项indifferent表示“漠不关心的”；C选项worried表示“担心的”；D选项frightened表示“害怕的”。根据第二段最后两句可知，尽管气温不断攀升，但美国人比以前人恶化时候都更不关心对抗全球变暖的问题，越是谈论全球变暖的问题，公众的
