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Amid a summer of record-setting heat, a new survey finds that most of Genera
Amid a summer of record-setting heat, a new survey finds that most of Genera
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2023-07-09
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Amid a summer of record-setting heat, a new survey finds that most of Generation X’s(20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人)young and middle-age adults are uninformed and unconcerned about climate change.
Only about 5% of Gen Xers, now 32 to 52 years old, are "alarmed" and 18% "concerned" about climate change, reports the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research on Tuesday. Two-thirds, or 66% , of those surveyed last year said they aren’t sure global warming is happening and 10% said they don’t believe it’s occurring.
"Most Generation Xers are surprisingly disengaged, dismissive or doubtful about whether global climate change is happening and they don’t spend much time worrying about it," said author Jon D. Miller.
The report comes as several Obama administration officials have recently linked extreme weather to climate change. In a report last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cited six weather events last year and said that atmospheric changes caused by the burning of fossil fuels made Texas’ heat wave, for example, 20 times more likely than it would have been in the 1960s.
The Generation X survey of about 3,000 adults, the fourth in a continuing series, found a small but statistically significant decline in Gen Xer’s attention to climate change. In 2011, 16% said they followed the issue very or moderately closely, down from 22% in 2009.
Why are Gen Xers so indifferent? The report, funded by the National Science Foundation, cites climate change’s complexity, pressing economic concerns and " issue fatigue". It finds educated adults tend to be more concerned about the issue. It also finds partisan(党派的)differences; nearly half of liberal Democrats were concerned or alarmed compared to zero percent of conservative Republicans.
Miller said he expected that, given climate change’s expected impact on future generations, parents of young children would be more concerned than those without kids.
" Not so," he said. " Generation X adults without minor children were slightly more alarmed about climate change than were parents. The difference is small, but it is in the opposite direction than we expected. " Miller said the report suggests that while there’s broad awareness of climate change, many Gen Xers prefer to focus on more immediate issues such as jobs and schools. [br] What does "issue fatigue"(Line 2, Para. 6)mean?
选项
A、Generation Xers are not informed about the issue.
B、Generation Xers are conservative about the issue.
C、Generation Xers are not concerned about the issue.
D、Generation Xers are tired of the issue.
答案
D
解析
语义理解题。本题考查issue fatigue的含义。fatigue意为“疲惫,疲惫”,故此推断该短语的意思是人们对于这个话题感到有些疲惫而不愿意再去谈论了,因此D)为本题答案。A)“20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人对这个问题不了解”、B)“20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人在这个问题上很保守”和C)“20世纪60年代到70年代初出生的美国人对这个问题不关心”均不符合文意,故排除。
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