(江苏专用)2020高考英语二轮复习专题限时检测(二十五)阅读理解D篇专练(三)[含答案]
7页1、专题限时检测(二十五)阅读理解D篇专练(三)(共2篇,限时20分钟)A(2019南通七市二模)UN scholars have calculated that within the next 10 years the degradation (退化) of farm and grassland could turn 50 million people into migrants.Another UN agency calculated that in the last 25 years, another 3% of the planets forests had been burned or cut down.Once you have read Gaia Vinces book, you start to register the scale of change in a fast changing world.Adventures in the Anthropocene holds a mirror up to humanity and says: look what you ha
2、ve done to the world, the only world you will ever have.The Anthropocene the Age of Man is a proposed new name for the quaternary (第四纪) period that we now live in, and it includes what has come to be called the Great Acceleration, in which during the last 65 years, whatever humans did, they did it faster and more effectively, and on a greater scale, while_at_the_same_time_reproducing_more_and_dying_much_less.Did it take 50,000 years to reach a population of one billion? Just in the last 10 years
3、, another billion people appeared on the planet, and by the end of this century, it could be home to 9, or 10, or 11 billion souls, each of which will hope for the minimum to sustain health and contentment.Many of them will demand a lot more, which is where the problems begin.To build cities, pave highways and establish factories, humans decades ago became the greatest earth moving force on the planet: they each year shift more rock and soil than the wind and the rain, the rivers and the glacier
4、s (冰川) combined.Cities now cover 2% of the planets land: by 2030, this will be 10%.Over the next 80 years, the species will build a city for one million people every 10 days.To keep these cities functioning, humans will consume 18 terawatts of energy and by 2020, around 5 billion of them will have smartphones, and Internet access, and already people who are miserably poor can see, at a fingers touch, what they are missing, and want it for themselves, and in the course of trying to get it, consum
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