首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] With its fast food restaurants, churches and strip malls, this
[originaltext] With its fast food restaurants, churches and strip malls, this
游客
2024-01-24
21
管理
问题
With its fast food restaurants, churches and strip malls, this city in southeast Florida looks like much of America. But on a sunny day last month, (20)city official Hector Castro talked about its resemblance to Italy’s slowly sinking Venice. "At some point in the future, some places may be uninhabitable," said Castro. "Maybe people could live in the top part of buildings. But what do you do about the roads?" These predictions about an underwater city may sound horrible, (21) but officials here say they are already changing infrastructure with climate change in mind. Recent storms hit the 4.4-square-mile city to such a degree that some homes were abandoned for the first time. It was the kind of heavy rainfall that could become more frequent with climate change, even though scientists say no weather event can be tied to warming temperatures. Simultaneously, (22) the city’s freshwater supply is being contaminated by saltwater intrusion—a problem that was not created by climate change, but that is likely being accelerated by it. So city officials are spending some $16 million to move the city’s entire drinking supply to the west to get out of the way of the ocean. It is a temporary fix for a problem that is projected to get worse as time goes on. There may be limits on how much to protect the city from flooding and saltwater intrusion with existing technologies. No one knows how long serious trouble will come—it could be 30 years or so, or it could be later.
20. In what aspect does the city in Florida resemble Venice in Italy?
21. How do the local governments react to the city’s sinking?
22. What does the speaker say about the city’s freshwater supply?
选项
A、Its contamination is primarily due to climate change.
B、It has been moved far away from the west.
C、It needs lots of money to fix.
D、It is polluted by saltwater intrusion.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3390117.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Thereareabout650,000school-agedSyrianrefugeechildreni
[originaltext]WhenthetsunamihitsouthernThailandlastyearhundredsof
[originaltext]FebruaryisBlackHistoryMonthintheUnitedStates,whenAm
[originaltext]Attheendofeveryyear,U.S.weatherresearcherslookback
[originaltext]InOctobertheUgandanoppositionleader,KizzaBasigye,retu
[originaltext]Twomonthsago,ZogbyInternational,aWashington-basedresea
[originaltext]Whenitcomestodieting,losingweightfastholdssomeappea
[originaltext]Whenitcomestodieting,losingweightfastholdssomeappea
[originaltext]Whenitcomestodieting,losingweightfastholdssomeappea
[originaltext]U.S.governmenthealthandsafetyofficialsareinvestigating
随机试题
[originaltext]W:Themapshowsthatthisstreetgoesdowntown.M:Yes,butwhat
Inmycountry,the______arealldistributedfree.A、lettersboxB、lettersboxes
Wehadtogotoworkbytaxiyesterdaybecauseourcar(repair)________atthe
TheInternetMayHaveBeatenTraditionalInstitutionsTheno
下列各项中,最早的古人类是( )A.山顶洞人 B.北京人 C.元谋人 D
标志着两极格局终结的历史事件是 A.北约的东扩B.中国国力的提升 C.苏联
19世纪中后期的日本资本主义尚未得到充分发展,但却成功地推翻了幕府的统治并进行了
在国民收入核算体系中,计入GDP的政府支出是指( )。A.政府工作人员的薪水和
法律责任是指对违反法律规定的行为可以选择承担的法律后果。( )
以下()是燃烧物不同的矿井火灾。A.井筒火灾 B.机电设备火灾 C.采面
最新回复
(
0
)