Part V Cloze (15 minutes)

　　Directions：There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

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　　The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it __62__ our kids.

　　AI Gore famously 63 how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York. Holland, and Shanghai, __64__ the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, __65__ that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.

　　When __66__ with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely __67__ is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.

　　This __68__ is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying __69__ about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, __70__ , on global warming's impact on malaria (疟疾) - which will put slightly more people at __71__ in 100 years - instead of tackling the half a billion people __72__ from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that arc much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.

　　__73__ also wears out the public's willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is __74__ people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A __75__ of people now believe - incorrectly - that global warming is not even .

　　But the __76__ cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes - particularly __77__ children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal __78__ from global warming.

　　The newspaper also reported that parents are __79__ "productive" outlets for their eight-year-olds' obsessions (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, contrary __80__ common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled (成为四倍) over the past half-century, to about 22000. __81__ diminishing - and eventually disappearing - summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.

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　　62. A) exhausts B) suppresses C) terrifies D) disgusts

　　63. A) dismissed B) distracted C) deposited D) depicted

　　64. A) as if B) even though C) in that D) in case

　　65. A) measuring B) signifying C) estimating D) extracting

　　66. A) confronted B) identified C) equipped D) entrusted

　　67. A) such B) there C) what D) which

　　68. A) morality B) interaction C) argument D) dialogue

　　69. A) prevalently B) predictably C) expressively D) excessively

　　70. A) for example B) in addition C) by contrast D) in short

　　71. A) will B) large C) ease D) risk

　　72. A) suffering B) deriving C) developing D) stemming

　　73. A) Explanation B) Reservation C) Exaggeration D) Revelation

　　74. A) dumped B) dimmed C) doubled D) doomed

　　75. A) mixture B) majority C) quantity D) quota

　　76. A) smallest B) worst C) fewest D) least

　　77. A) among B) of C) by D) toward

　　78. A) separation B) sanction C) isolation D) extinction

　　79. A) turning out B) tiding over C) searching for D) pulling through

　　80. A) upon B) to C) about D) with

　　81. A) Despite B) Besides C) Regardless D) Except

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