Question

    Which topic drew the most attention from people around the world in 2019? It was climate (气候) change, according to three well-known English dictionaries.

The Oxford, Collins and Cambridge dictionaries chose “climate emergency”, “climate strike” and “upcycling”, respectively, as their “Word of the Year”. This tells us that climate change was a widely-discussed issue (话题) in 2019.

“Climate emergency” means a situation in which urgent action is needed to reduce climate change. “Climate strike” refers to people leaving work or school to call for more action to protect the environment. “Upcycling” refers to making new items out of old or used items to reduce waste.

Climate change has already affected the world in many ways. Take Venice, for example. Due to climate change, Venice experienced the worst flooding (洪水) it has seen in the last 50 years in 2019. Many stores, restaurants and hotels were flooded. This caused serious damage totaling hundreds of millions of euros (欧元).

Although we’ve known about global warming (全球变暖) for a long time, people have been slow to respond to it. The year 2019 might have been the turning point that will finally encourage us to take responsibility.

“Ten years ago, when the science on the climate issue was first increasing, the influences could be seen as an issue for future generations (子孙后代),” Katharine, a climate scientist, told The New York Times. “It’s no doubt our issue now.”

However, simply realizing that climate change is a threat (威胁) is not enough. We must take real action before it is too late.

根据短文内容，用符合语义及语法规则的词填空，每空一词。

1.The words “Climate Emergency”, “Climate Strike” and “Upcycling” talked about ________________ ________________, which was the hot issue in 2019.

2.“Climate strike” means people call for more action to protect the environment ________________ ________________ working or going to school.

3.In 2019, Venice lost hundreds of millions of euros because many ____________, ____________ and __________ were flooded.

4.What Katharine said means that ____________ ____________ for us to think over the issue of climate change.

5.We must do something on climate change ____________ than simply think it is a threat.

Answer

1. climate change

2. instead of

3. stores restaurants hotels

4. it's time

5.rather

【解析】

本文是根据The Oxford，Collins和Cambridge三本词典的搜索频率最高的词引出关于气候变化的问题。本文主要分为三个部分，第一部分是在2019年人们对气候变化的关注度最高；第二部分是举例说明气候变化对世界的影响；第三部分是阐述关于解决气候变化问题的责任。最后呼吁大家关注气候变化问题。

1.

根据第2段中“The Oxford, Collins and Cambridge dictionaries chose ‘climate emergency’, ‘climate strike’ and ‘upcycling’, respectively, as their ‘Word of the Year’. This tells us that climate change was a widely-discussed issue in 2019.”可知这三个词都在讨论气候变化。故填climate change。

2.

根据第3段中“ ‘Climate strike’ refers to people leaving work or school to call for more action to protect the environment.”可知“气候罢工”指的是人们离开工作或学校，这里是说呼吁采取更多行动来保护环境，而不是去工作或上学，结合空后“working or going ...”是动名词形式，可推出此处用instead of表示“而不是”。故填instead of。

3.

根据第4段中“Many stores, restaurants and hotels were flooded.”可知此处是说许多商店、餐馆和酒店被淹没。故答案为stores; restaurants; hotels。

4.

根据倒数第二段中“It’s no doubt our issue now.”可知，我们是时候考虑气候变化的问题了，结合空后“for us to think over”可推出此处用it's time for sb. to do sth.“是某人做某事的时候了”。故填it's time。

5.

根据最后一段中“However, simply realizing that climate change is a threat is not enough. We must take real action before it is too late.”可知关于气候变化，我们必须更多地采取行动而不是简单想想它是个威胁。结合空后than可推出要用rather than表示“而不是”，连接并列的谓语结构。故答案为rather。