A leading climate change scientist says the warming of the planet would hav

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问题 A leading climate change scientist says the warming of the planet would have a devastating impact on the poor and the hungry. The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel 【C1】______ Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, says the 【C2】______ of climate change will be mainly felt in the areas of health and agriculture. He says it is the poor 【C3】______ would suffer the most from the change. He says heat waves in different parts of the world are making people ill and 【C4】______ many deaths. He says the situation is 【C5】______ bad in poor countries that do not have the infrastructure or necessary means to 【C6】______ people from extreme heat. 【C7】______ the agricultural effects of climate change, Pachauri says a great many people are 【C8】______ on rain-fed agriculture. Climate change would lead to an increase in precipitation ( 降水 ) in temperate areas,【C9】______ a decrease in tropical and sub-tropical areas, where most of the people on Earth live. Those who depend on agriculture for their 【C10】______ , he says, would be 【C11】______ affected by the decrease. "At the global level, with the decline in agricultural 【C12】______ , in the largest countries of the world or the most 【C13】______ countries of the world, we will find that food stocks will 【C14】______ ," Pachauri said. "And, as a matter of fact, that has already started happening. The result of that will be a(n) 【C15】______ in food prices. Now, 【C16】______ in turn, hits the poorest of the poor very badly. "As countermeasures, the farmers will have to 【C17】______ measures such as the more 【C18】______ use of water resources and new strains of crops that can 【C19】______ higher temperatures and lower 【C20】______ of water will have to be developed. [br] 【C17】

选项 A、adapt to
B、accept
C、approve
D、adopt

答案 D

解析动词词义题。A adapt to表示“适应”；B accept表示“接受，承认”；C approve作及物动词表示“正式批准”；D adopt表示“采取，采用”。可见只有adopt符合题意。

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