语法填空
Directions: After reading the passage
below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically
correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form
of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each
blank.
Is Climate Change Consuming Your Favorite
Foods?
Due to climate change, the world's
endangered lists are no longer just for animals. We may not only need to adapt
ourselves to living in a warmer world but a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (tasty) one as well.
As the increased amount of carbon dioxide
in the air linked to global warming {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (continue) to affect weather, we often forget
that they are also impacting the quantity, the quality, and the growing
locations of our food. Some foods have already felt the impact while {#blank#}3{#/blank#} may even become scarce within the next 30
years.
Whether or not you try to limit yourself {#blank#}4{#/blank#} one cup of coffee a day, the effects of
climate change on the world's coffee-growing regions may leave you little
choice.
Rising temperatures and unpredictable
rainfall patterns are reported to have been threatening coffee plantations in
South America, Africa, Asia, and Hawaii. The result? Significant cuts in coffee
yield.
According to organizations like Australia's
Climate Institute, half of the present coffee-producing areas {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (estimate) not to be suitable by the year
2050, if current climate patterns continue.
With temperatures continuously rising,
oceans are absorbing some of the heat and undergoing warming of their own, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (cause) a decline in fish population,
including in lobsters that are cold-blooded creatures, and in salmons (鲑鱼) {#blank#}7{#/blank#} eggs find it hard to survive in higher water
temperatures. Warmer waters also encourage some poisonous marine bacteria to
grow and lead to illness in humans whenever {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (take) with raw seafood, like oysters.
And how about that satisfying “crack” which
you get when you are eating crabs and lobsters? It could be silenced {#blank#}9{#/blank#} shellfish have been struggling to build their
calcium carbonate (碳酸钙) shells, which is a result of ocean acidification.
Even worse is the possibility {#blank#}10{#/blank#} we will have no seafood to enjoy at all. In a
2006 Dalhousie University study, scientists predicted that if over-fishing and
rising temperature trends continued at their present rate, the world's seafood
stocks would run out by the year 2050.
