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Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields i
Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields i
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2024-10-04
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问题
Global warming is already cutting substantially into potential crop yields in some countries—to such an extent that it may be a factor in the food price (1)______ that have caused worldwide stress in recent years, researchers suggest in a new study.
Wheat yields in recent years were down by more than 10 percent in Russia and by a few percentage points (2)______ in India, France and China compared with(3)______ they probably would have been without rising(4)______, according to the study.
Corn yields were(5)______ a few percentage points in China, Brazil and France from what would have been (6)______, said the researchers, whose findings were published in Friday’s (7)______ of the journal Science.
Some countries saw small gains from the temperature increases, however. And in all countries, the(8)______ carbon dioxide that humans are (9)______ into the air acted as a (10)______ that encouraged plant growth,(11)______ some of the losses from rising temperatures caused by that same greenhouse gas.
(12)______, the study’s authors found that when the gains in some countries were weighed(13)______ the losses in other countries, the overall global(14)______ of climate change has been small so far: losses of a few percentage points for wheat and corn from what they would have been (15)______ climate change. The general impact on production of rice and soybeans was(16)______, with gains in some regions entirely counterbalancing losses in others.
(17)______ the authors of the study pointed out that temperature increases were expected to(18)______ in coming decades, making it likely that the challenges(19)______ food production will grow in a era when demand is expected to(20)_____ sharply. [br] (11)
选项
A、adding to
B、resulting in
C、offsetting
D、reducing
答案
C
解析
句意关系题。这句话提到,二氧化碳导致升温的同时,作为肥料促进植物生长,而升温又导致粮食减产,这显然存在一种互相抵消的关系。所以选offsetting“抵消”。
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