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14．It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and/or heavy automobile traffic．Today，we know that although  these are the areas with the worst air pollution，the problem is actually worldwide．On several occasions over the past decade，a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the entire eastern half of the United States and led to health warnings even in rural areas away from any major concentration of manufacturing and automobile traffic．In fact，the very climate of the entire earth may be affected by air pollution．Some scientists feel that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels （coal and oil） is creating a"greenhouse effect"-----holding in heat reflected from the earth and raising the world's average temperature．If this view is correct and the world's temperature is raised only a few degrees，much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York，Boston，Miami，and New Orleans will be under water． 
     Another view，less widely held，is that increasing particulate （廢氣排往空中而形成的微粒、顆粒）matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth's temperature─a result that would be equally disastrous．A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas．At present we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen （though one recent government report prepared by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very likely）．Perhaps，if we are very lucky，the two tendencies willoffset each other and the world's temperature will stay about the same as it is now． 
32．As pointed out at the beginning of the passage，people used to think that air pollutionD．
A．caused widespread damage in the countryside
B．a(chǎn)ffected the entire eastern half of the United States
C．had damaging effects on health
D．existed merely in urban and industrial areas
33．The underlined word"offset"in Para．2 could best be replaced byB． 
A．slip into
B．make up for 
C．set up
D．catch up with
34．It can be inferred from the passage thatA． 
A．lowering the world's temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster
B．raising the world's temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth
C．a(chǎn)lmost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
D．the world's temperature will remain constant in the years to come
35．This passage is mainly concerned withC． 
A．the greenhouse effect 
B．the burning of fossil fuels
C．the potential effect of air pollution 
D．the likelihood （可能性） of a new ice age．

Answer 1

分析 通讀全文可知，本文介紹了空氣污染可能導(dǎo)致的后果．空氣污染可能會帶來的兩種不同的后果，一些人認(rèn)為全球溫度會上升，另一些人認(rèn)為溫度會下降，如果我們幸運(yùn)的話，這兩種可能性可以相互彌補(bǔ)．

解答 32：D  細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)第一段中的"It was once thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and/or heavy automobile traffic．"可知，空氣污染只存在于大城市里，故選D．
33：B  詞義猜測題．上文講述了空氣污染可能會帶來的兩種不同的后果，一些人認(rèn)為全球溫度會上升，另一些人認(rèn)為溫度會下降，如果我們幸運(yùn)的話，這兩種可能性可以相互彌補(bǔ)，故選B．
34：A  細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)最后一段中的"A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to new ice age and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas．"可知，世界上氣溫降低幾度就會導(dǎo)致農(nóng)業(yè)上的災(zāi)難，故選A．
35：C  主旨大意題．本文介紹了空氣污染可能導(dǎo)致的后果，空氣污染可能會帶來的兩種不同的后果，一些人認(rèn)為全球溫度會上升，另一些人認(rèn)為溫度會下降，如果我們幸運(yùn)的話，這兩種可能性可以相互彌補(bǔ)．故選C．

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