2 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. declining B. practicing C. responses D. poor E. efficient F. opportunities
G. responsibility H. avoided I. facing J. production K. risk |
The world is barreling(moving quickly)down a path to heat up by four degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, the World Bank said Sunday in a report.
Among the consequences are series of cataclysmic changes(灾难性的变化)that include extreme heat-waves, 1 global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, it warned.
All regions of the world would suffer-some more than others-but the Turn Down the Heat report finds that the 2 will suffer the most.
“A four degrees warmer world can, and must be, 3 -we need to hold warming below two degrees,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim in the report.
“Climate change is one of the single biggest challenges 4 development, and we need to assume the moral 5 to take action on behalf of future generations, especially the poorest,” it said.
“The Earth system's 6 to climate change appear to be nonlinear(非线性的),” said PIK Director, John Schellnhuber. “If we venture far beyond the two degrees guardrail, toward the four degrees line, the 7 of crossing tipping points rises sharply. The only way to avoid this is to break the business-as-usual pattern of 8 and consumption.”
The World Bank Group's work on inclusive green growth has found that with more 9 and smarter use of energy and natural resources, 10 exist to greatly reduce the climate impact of development without slowing poverty alleviation(减轻；缓和)or economic growth.
