August was one of the nastiest months I can remember: torrential rain; a hailstorm or two; cold, bitter winds; and mists. But we are accustomed to such weather in England. Lord Byron used to say that an English summer begins on July 31 and ends on Aug. 1. He called 1816 "the year without a summer." He spent it gazing across Lake Geneva, watching the storms, with 18-year-old Mary Shelley. The lightening flickering across the lake inspired her Frankenstein, the tale of the man-made monster galvanized into life by electricity.
This summer's atrocious weather tempted me to tease a Green whom I know. "Well, what about your weather theory now?" (One of the characteristics of Greens is that they know no history.) He replied: "Yes, this weather is unprecedented. England has never had such an August before. It's global warming, of course." That's the Greens' stock response to anything weather-related. Too much sun? "Global warming." Too little sun? "Global warming." Drought? "Global warming." Floods? "Global warming." Freezing cold? "Global warming."
I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming. He was a student when Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was first published and then successfully tested. Einstein said that for his theory to be valid it would have to pass three tests. "If," Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."
The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels--the essence of the Greens' theory of global warming--has not much basis in science. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.
Those who buy in to global warming wish to drastically curb human economic and industrial activities, regardless of the consequences for people, especially the poor. If the theory's conclusions are accepted and agreed upon, the destructive results will be felt most severely in those states that adhere to the rule of law and will observe restrictions most faithfully. The global warming activists' target is the U.S. If America is driven to accept crippling restraints on its economy it will rapidly become unable to shoulder its burdens as the world's sole superpower and ultimate defender of human freedoms. We shall all suffer, however, as progress falters and then ceases and living standards decline.
小題1: The writer of the passage is probably _______.
A．one of the “Greens”
B．a(chǎn)n American
C．not quite a believer in Global Warming
D．a(chǎn)n environmentalist
小題2:Which person(s), in the writer’s eyes, is the one he agrees with?  
A．Karl MarxB．Sir Karl PopperC．The GreensD．Mary Shelley
小題3:Sir Arthur Eddington could be inferred as a ______.
A．politicianB．poetC．GreenpeacerD．physicist
小題4:“denounce”  in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.
A．a(chǎn)nnounceB．pronounce
C．speak out forD．speak out against
小題5: Which of the following is probably a good title for this article?
A．Why Einstein’s Theory Stands the Tests.
B．Which Country the “Greens” Are Attacking?
C．Global Warming? I See Little Point.
D．The Climate in England and beyond.

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:D
小題5:C

試題分析：本文講述了作者對于很多人將所有的環(huán)境問題都?xì)w為氣候變暖的說法并不贊同，如果不顧人們特別是窮人的生活而一味的遏制經(jīng)濟(jì)的話，后果將非常的嚴(yán)重。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題。從文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知，作者并不相信所謂的全球氣候變暖，故選C
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題。從文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知作者同意Sir Karl Popper的觀點(diǎn)，故選 B
小題3:推斷題。從文章Einstein wrote to British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, "it were proved that this effect does not exist in nature, then the whole theory would have to be abandoned."可以推知Sir Arthur Eddington應(yīng)該是個(gè)物理學(xué)家，這樣他才能和愛因斯坦能很好的交流，故選D
小題4:推斷題。從文章從文章I wish the great philosopher Sir Karl Popper were alive to denounce the unscientific nature of global warming.可知，此處應(yīng)該是譴責(zé)，反對的意思，故選D
小題5:主旨題。作者對于很多人所謂的全球氣候變暖，要進(jìn)行削減工業(yè)，減緩經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展等措施持懷疑態(tài)度，所以他并不贊同全球氣候變暖這個(gè)觀點(diǎn)，故選C更能符合題意。
點(diǎn)評：對于此類文章首先必須對每句話都要認(rèn)真地閱讀理解。本文中推斷題較多，考察學(xué)生信息的把握能力。議論文需要抓住作者所表達(dá)中心思想。對于細(xì)節(jié)題，學(xué)生在理解全文的基礎(chǔ)上要對題目中關(guān)鍵字在文章中迅速定位，找到相對應(yīng)的出處，再仔細(xì)對比找出答案。
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