对外经济贸易大学考博英语历年真题及详解.pdf

2011年对外经济贸易大学考博英语真题 考试科目：1101经济英语 基础英语部分（共50分） Please write all your a
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on the A
wer Sheet. Part One Reading (15 points) Directio
: Read the article below and fulfill the tasks that follow the article. AS the planet warms, floods, storms, rising seas and drought will uproot millio
of people and with dire wider co
equences. Barack Obama, collecting his Nobel peace prize, said that climate change “will fuel more conflict for decades”, He took the analysis not from environmental scaremonge
but from a group of American generals. The forecast is close 　(1) becoming received wisdom. A flurry of new books with titles such as “Global Warring” and “Climate Conflict” offer near-apocalyptic visio
. Cleo Paskal, at the Royal I
titute of International Affai
in London, predicts those floods, storms, the failure of the Indian mo
oon and agricultural collapse will bring “enormous mad specific, geopolitical, economic, and security co
equences for all of us...the world of tomorrow looks chaotic and violent”. Jeffrey Mazo of the International I
titute for Strategic Studies, also in London, calls climate change an “existential threat” and fea
it could usher 　(2) “state failure and internal conflict” in exposed places, notably Africa. 　 Yet surprisingly few facts support these alarming assertio
. Widely touted forecasts such as for 200m climate refugees in fire next few decades seem to have been plucked 　(3) the air. Little or no academic research has looked at questio
such as whether Bangladeshis displaced by a rising sea would move a series of short distances over a long period, or (more disruptively) a greater distance immediately. 　 So scientists preparing the fifth report of the Intergovernrnental Panel on Climate Change, due in 2013, are for the fi
t time including a chapter on threats to human security. An early effort came at a conference last month in Norway, 　(4) 　the auspices of the Peace Research I
titute in Oslo. 　 One idea is to find previous occasio
when big env