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7．What is the focus of Shoichi Aoki and his magazine FRUiTS? A．Commercialization of fashion magazines. B．Expression of something personal and creative. C．Designing fashionable wear for men in the street. D．Promoting Japanese traditional clothing worldwide.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段最后一句“These styles may seem wild, but Aoki's idea is not: be bold, be creative and find something that suits you.”可知，Shoichi Aoki强调的是个性和创造性，故选B。 8．What is probably the best title for the passage? A．How to find the style that suits you B．Where to pick up a bargain C．What to wear to develop your style D．Whom to imitate to be popular
解析：选A 标题归纳题。纵观全文，尤其是第一段中的“How would you describe your style? Formal? Classical? Casual? Smart? First of all, what is style？”可知，本文主要介绍了如何找到适合自己的风格。故A项作本文标题最佳。
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(2019·镇江模拟)The latest IPCC report does not mince words (直言不讳) about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historic precedent (先例)” in order to avoid the climate disaster that would result from a 2 degree Celsius rise in average global temperature. Climate change already affects the world's most helpless people including poor rural communities that depend on the land for their livings and coastal communities. Indeed, we have already seen the clear asymmetry (不对称) of suffering resulting from extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, wildfires and more.
So far, advocates and politicians have tended to focus on reducing fossil fuel(化石燃料) consumption through technology and/or policy, such as a sharp carbon tax, as climate solutions. These proposals are, of course, essential to reducing man-made carbon emissions (排放物) — 71 percent of which are produced by just 100 fossil fuel companies.
Yet the international focus on fossil fuels has overshadowed (使……显得较不重要) the most powerful and cost-efficient carbon-capture technology the world has yet seen: forests. Recent scientific research confirms that forests and other “natural climate solutions” are absolutely essential in reducing climate change.
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In fact, natural climate solutions can help us achieve 37 percent of our climate target, even though they currently receive only 2.5 percent of public climate financing.
Forests' power to store carbon dioxide through the simple process of tree growth is staggering:_one tree can even store an average of about 48 pounds of carbon dioxide in one year. Recent research shows undamaged forests are capable of storing the same amount of the carbon dioxide emissions of entire countries such as Peru and Colombia.
For this reason, policymakers and business leaders must create and strengthen ambitious policies to prevent deforestation, and support the sustainable management of standing forests in the fight against climate change. Protecting the world's forests ensures they can continue to provide essential functions aside from climate stability, including producing oxygen, filtering water and supporting biodiversity. Not only do all the world's people depend on forests to provide clean air, clean water, oxygen, and medicines, but 1.6 billion people rely on them directly for their livelihoods.
语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。在全球气候越来越不稳定的情况下，减少空气中碳的含量是行之有效的方法，而其中最关键的就是保护森林，让其发挥作用。 9．According to the passage, climate change ________.
A．will surely achieve a scale that is more serious than ever before B．will only affect people living in the poorest rural regions C．is likely to lead to more frequent extreme weather events D．is entirely determined by fossil fuel consumption
解析：选C 细节理解题。根据第一段内容，尤其是最后一句中的“we have already seen the clear asymmetry (不对称) of suffering resulting from extreme weather events”可知，气候变化可能会导致更频繁的极端天气事件发生。故C项正确。 10. What's the finding of the new research?
A．Reducing fossil fuel is the most powerful and cost-efficient technology. B．Forests are vital to reducing climate change due to their storage power. C．Most of our climate targets can be accomplished with the help of natural climate solutions.
D．Natural climate solutions have proved less efficient than conventional solutions.
解析：选B 推理判断题。根据第三段第二句可知，最近研究表明，森林和其他自然气候解决方法对缓解气候变化很重要，故选B。
11．The underlined word “staggering” in Paragraph 4 means ________.
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A．astonishing C．embarrassing
B．speeding D．shrinking
解析：选A 词义猜测题。根据画线词后对森林储存二氧化碳的能力的具体描述可知，画线词所在句的意思是“森林通过树木生长这个简单过程来储存二氧化碳的能力是惊人的”，故该词的意思是“令人惊讶的”。
12. What's the author's purpose of writing this article?
A．To compare two different approaches to dealing with climate change. B．To argue against the view that focus on fossil fuel reduction counts. C．To urge scientists to do more research into natural climate solutions. D．To point out that forests are the most powerful weapon for fighting climate change.
解析：选D 写作意图题。在全球气候越来越不稳定的情况下，虽然减少化石燃料的使用是达成气候目标的重要手段，但最关键的还是让森林发挥作用，作者就此解释原因，并呼吁人们保护森林。故选D。
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