雅思考试阅读练习题
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You should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1 - 15, which are bad on Reading Passage 1 below.
National Parks and Climate Change
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火山王杨衮National parks, nature rerves, protected areas and sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) are an important part of the natural landscape in most countries. Their habitat and terrains vary massively, from tundra and glacier parks in the north to wetlands in Europe, steppes in central and eastern Europe, and prairie grasslands and derts in other areas. V
irtually all kinds of landscape are protected somewhere. And the protected areas are important for the variety of plant and animal life they harbour: caribou, bears, wolves, rare types of fish and birds.
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But the areas are under threat from a recent peril - global climate change. No amount of legislation in any one country can protect against a worldwide problem. What exactly are the problems caud by climate change? David Woodward, head of the British Council for Nature Conrvation, spoke to Science Now about some of the areas, and his first point highlighted the enormous variation in nature rerves.
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"Each park or rerve is an ecosystem," he says, "and the larger rerves, such as tho in Canada, may have veral types of ecological subsystems within it. There are rerves which are half the size of Western Europe, so it doesn't make n to talk abou
t them as if they were all the same, or as if the microclimates within them were uniform." Woodward outlines some of the dangers pod by climatic change to parks in the northern Americas, for example.
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"If climatic change is vere, and in particular if the change is happening as quickly as it is at the moment, then the boundaries of the park no longer make much n. A park that was designated as a protected area 90 years ago may suffer such change in its climate that the nature of it changes too. It will no longer contain the animal and plant life that it did. So the area which once protected, say, a species of reindeer or a type of scenery, will have changed. In effect, you lo the thing you were trying to protect." This effect has already been en in Canada, where parks which once contained glaciers have en the glaciers melted by global warming.
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Jennie Lindstrom, Chief Executive Officer of H2O, the charity which campaigns on an international level on behalf of mainland Europe's protected wetland and wilderness areas, is even more pessimistic. In a letter to Science Now, she has asrted that up to 70% of such areas are already experiencing such "significant change ... in climate" that the distribution patterns. of flora and fauna are changing, and that all areas will eventually be affected. She estimates that the most profound change is occurring in the northernmost parks in areas such as Finland, Greenland, Iceland and northern Russia, but adds that "there is no place which will not suffer the effects of global warming. What we are eing is a massive change in the environment - and that means the extinction of whole species, as well as visual and structural changes which means that areas like the Camargue may literally look totally different in 50 or 60 years' time."
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The problems are manifold. First, it is difficult or impossible to predict which areas are most in need of help - that is, which areas are in most danger. Predicting climate change i
s even more unreliable than predicting the weather. Secondly, there is a n that governments in most areas are apathetic towards a problem which may not manifest itlf until long after that government's term of office has come to an end. In poor areas, of cour, nature conrvation is low on the list of priorities compared to, say, employment or health. Third, and perhaps most important, even in areas where there is both the political will and the financial muscle to do something about the problem, it is hard to know just what to do. Maria Colehill of Forestlife, an American conrvation body, thinks that in the ca of climate change, the most we can realistically do is monitor the situation and allow for the changes that we cannot prevent, while lobbying governments internationally to make the changes to the pollution laws, for example, that will enable us to deal with the caus of the problem. "I am despondent," she admits. "I have no doubt that a lot of the work we are doing on behalf of the North American lynx, for example, will be wasted. The animal itlf can live in virtually any environment where there are few humans, but of cour its numbers are small. If climate change affects the other animal life in the areas where it now lives, if the food chain changes, then the lynx will be affected too. Less food for the lynx means fewer lynxes, or lynxes with nowhere to go."
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Certainly, climate change is not going to go away overnight. It is estimated that fossil fuels burnt in the 1950s will still be affecting our climate in another 30 years, so the changes will continue for some time after that. If we want to protect the remnants of our wild landscapes for future generations, the impetus for change must come from the governments of the world.
Questions 1 - 7
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 1 - 7 on your answer sheet, write Yes if the statement agrees with the information, No if the statement contradicts the information, Not Given if there is no information on this in the passage.
理财投资1 Every country has protected areas or national parks.
2 Countries can protect their parks by changing their laws.
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3 A protected area or park can contain many different ecosystems.
