新东方英语六级考试完形预测

A shocking study reflects the tremendous gap that exists regarding global warming. On the one hand are the scientists, who with few -1- think climate change is very serious and needs to be -2- with immediately and ambitiously. On the other side is the public, which -3- believes that climate change is real and worries about it, but which rarely ranks it as a high -4- . A 2007 survey by the U.N. Development Programme found that 54% of Americans -5- taking a "wait and see" approach to climate-change action - holding -6- on the cuts in global warming that would immediately -7- their lives. As a result, we have our current -8- : a steady drumbeat of scientific evidence of global warming’s -9- and comparatively little in the way of meaningful political action.

Carbon -10- would need to be cut drastically from current levels. Yet almost all of the subjects in scientists’ study failed to realize that, assuming instead that you could -11- carbon concentration simply by -12- carbon emissions at their current level. That’s not the case - and in fact, pursuing such a plan for the future would -13- guarantee that global warming could -14- out of control. It may seem to many like good common -15- to wait until we see proof of the serious damage global warming is doing -16- we take action. But it’s not - we can’t "wait and see" on global warming -17- the climate has a momentum all its wait for decades to finally act to reduce carbon emissions, it could well be too -18- . Yet this simply isn’t understood. Someone as smart as Bill Gates doesn’t seem to get it. "Fortunately climate change, although it’s a huge -19- , it happens over a long period of time," he said at a forum in Beijing last year. "You know, we have time to work -20- it." But the truth is we don’t.

1. A. conceptions B. receptions C. exceptions D. deceptions
2. A. familiar B. dealt C. compatible D. complied
3. A. increasingly B. decreasingly C. gradually D. definitely
4. A. position B. occasion C. priority D. situation
5. A. advocate B. provocation C. invocation D. vocation
6. A. up B. off C. with D. out
7. A. compact B. inflect C. impact D. reflect
8. A. dilemma B. circumstance C. difficulty D. status
9. A. sense B. selection C. severity D. separation
10. A. commission B. remission C. omission D. emission
11. A. utilize B. stabilize C. specialize D. fertilize
12. A. covering B. capping C. constraining D. detaining
13. A. virtually B. eventually C. vitally D. appropriately
14. A. stun B. stint C. spin D. string
15. A. sensibility B. sensitivity C. sense D. sensation
16. A. when B. as C. after D. before
17. A. although B. because C. even D. and
18. A. early B. late C. latter D. earlier
19. A. chance B. change C. challenge D. chase
20. A. for B. in C. to D. on