The environmental group 350.org has launched a new campaign called Climate Name Change that proposes to revise to how hurricanes are named: call them after policymakers who say that humans are not to blame for global warming.
This will save the Katrinas and Sandys of the world from the injustice of having their names attached to major disaster, the group says. And, as a bonus, it will produce some peculiar weather reports.
“Rick Perry leaves trail of death,” appears under a broadcast titled “Rick Perry: The Tragedy.”
“Michelle Bachman is incredibly dangerous. If you value your life, please seek shelter from Michelle Bachman,” says an official while addressing a news conference.
The campaign is unlikely to influence the World Meteorological Organization, which has since 1954 named Atlantic tropical storms from an official list.
But the campaign’s goal seems less to actually name a hurricane after the speaker of the house, and more to call attention to an issue that this month has reached an alarming level of seriousness. The campaign comes just a month before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its most recent report on the state of global warming and a week after a draft（草稿）of the report was given away to Reuters.
In the draft, scientists concluded with near certainty – about 95 percent sure – that humans are to blame for the worldwide temperature hikes over the last few decades. That was a revision from the 2007 report, which put scientific certainty that human activities were driving global climate change at about 90 percent.
And global warming, the report said, is not slowing down – it, actually, is accelerating. That means that sea levels could balloon upward as much as three feet by the end of the century, if emissions(排放量) continue at their current pace.
Still, as the Washington Post Climate notes, hurricanes are not the best sign of global warming. Though current data suggests that global warming will in the future stir up terrible super storms, there is still not enough evidence to support the idea that climate change strengthens the recent hurricanes that have torn at the US’s eastern coastline.
小題1:It can be inferred that__________ is one of the policymakers who believe that humans are not to blame for global warming.
A．KatrinaB．Rick PerryC．FlossieD．Sandy
小題2:350.org has launched the campaign with the real purpose of _________________.
A．changing the ways of naming hurricanes
B．introducing the methods of naming hurricanes
C．reminding policymakers to change their attitudes
D．calling attention to the coming report on global warming
小題3:The draft of the global warming report tells us that _____________.
A．global warming is speeding up at the same rate
B．it is human beings that have caused global warming
C．the new report has a more accurate data than the one in 2007
D．human beings are not the only one to blame for global warming
小題4:The writer of the passage seems to believe that______________.
A．policymakers should be blamed for the global warming
B．the campaign will cause the change of naming hurricanes
C．global warming has no necessary relation to terrible hurricanes
D．global warming will surely cause terrible super storms in the future

小題1:B
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：
350.org在氣候變化報(bào)告草案已經(jīng)公布、正式報(bào)告即將出爐之際發(fā)起一場(chǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng)，建議修改颶風(fēng)命名規(guī)則，用宣稱人類與氣候變暖無關(guān)的政策制定者的名字給颶風(fēng)命名。其真實(shí)意圖在于引起人們對(duì)于氣候變化報(bào)告的關(guān)注。
小題1:由第二段This will save the Katrinas and Sandys of the world from the injustice of having their names attached to major disaster,可以看出，A，D項(xiàng)中的Katrina 和Sandy，是現(xiàn)行颶風(fēng)命名中常見的名字，改變命名規(guī)則后可以使叫Katrina或Sandy的人免遭不公對(duì)待---他們與颶風(fēng)無關(guān)。C項(xiàng)在文章里沒有提及。電視節(jié)目出現(xiàn)“Rick Perry造成大量死亡”這樣的字幕。可見Rick Perry 是政策制定者之一。故B項(xiàng)正確。
小題2:由文章第六段But the campaign’s goal seems less to actually name a hurricane after the speaker of the house, and more to call attention to an issue …一句可知，365.org的真實(shí)目的不在于改變颶風(fēng)命名規(guī)則，而在于引起人們關(guān)注嚴(yán)重程度令人警醒的問題：氣候變化。因?yàn)闅夂驁?bào)告草案已經(jīng)公布、正式報(bào)告本月出爐。故選擇D項(xiàng)。
小題3:第七段In the draft, scientists concluded … that humans are to blame for the worldwide temperature hikes over the last few decades.一句可知，報(bào)告草案的結(jié)論是人類應(yīng)該對(duì)氣候變暖負(fù)責(zé)。C項(xiàng)不是報(bào)告草案的內(nèi)容。故選擇B項(xiàng)。
小題4:由最后一段Though current data suggests that …, there is still not enough evidence to support the idea that climate change strengthens the recent hurricanes that…可知，作者認(rèn)為沒有證據(jù)證明氣候變暖強(qiáng)化了最近的颶風(fēng)。has no necessary relation to: 不一定有關(guān)系。故選擇 C項(xiàng)。
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