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(3)This passage paints a dire picture of disastrous change if there is no immediate action to limit greenhouse gases. The major observations by researchers include:Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels in 2008 were nearly 40% higher than those in 1990. Scientists predict that surging green house gas emissions will cause severe and long-term harm to large parts of the earth and its people.A wide array of satellites demonstrates the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate. Melting of glaciers and ice-caps in other parts of the world has also accelerated since 1990. Summertime melting of Arctic sea-ice has accelerated far beyond the expectations of estimates based on past climate.Satellites also show global average sea-level rise that is 80% above past predictions. This acceleration in sea-level rise is consistent with a doubling in water flowing into the ocean from melting of glaciers, ice caps and the Greenland and West-Antarctic ice-sheets. By 2100, global sea-level increase may well exceed 1 meter.Several vulnerable elements in the climate system such as continental ice sheets, Amazon rainforest, West African monsoon and others could be pushed towards abrupt or irreversible change if warming continues as it is now throughout this century. Delay in action risks irreversible damage.If global warming is to be slowed to avoid these limits, global emissions need to peak between 2015 and 2020 and then decline rapidly. To stabilize climate, a "decarbonized" global society needs to be reached well within this century. More specifically, the average annual per-capita emissions will have to shrink to 80-95 percent below the per-capita emissions in developed nations in 2000.
88.The underlined word dire is closest in meaning to _____.
(A) drizzly
(B) dreadful
(C) drowsy
(D) drooping

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答案：[無官方正解]
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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