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Scientists who study the climate (氣候) are still arguing about how fast the earth is warming and how much it will warm, but they do agree that the earth is warming and that it will keep warming if we don’t do anything about it.

Scientists agree that the burning of fossil fuels (化石燃料) like oil and coal cause greenhouse gases to escape (釋放) into the air and that these gases are causing most of the warming. Another cause is deforestation ( cutting down trees ) . Trees soak up carbon dioxide  (二氧化碳) , one of the greenhouse gases, from the air.

There are already some changes happening because of global warming. Sea level is rising and some animals are already moving to new homes. It’s already too late to stop global warming completely.

If the warming gets worse, as scientists expect, there may be some kinds of plants and animals that become extinct (滅絕的) because they can’t move to new homes. There may be more storms and floods. Sea level may rise so much that people have to move away from the coasts. Some areas may become too dry for farming.

Global warming is a very difficult problem to fix. People are having a hard time agreeing on what to do about it. For example, everyone agrees that wasting energy is a bad thing to do. But some people think that the federal government (聯(lián)邦政府) should make laws about it, while other people think it should be up to each person or business to decide what to do.

Many states and businesses in the United States are not waiting until the federal government decides what to do. They have already started working on the problem.

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Global warming

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Everyone may play a t____1._____ on others on April Fool’s Day(愚人節(jié)). And my father did last April Fool’s Day.

It was Sunday and we were all sitting at the table when my father s____2._____ smiled and said to us, “Oh, I forgot to tell you the g____3.____ news. There is a letter from you grandma. She is coming to see us this afternoon. I’m going to m____4.____ her at the station.” With these words he went out.

How happy we were! We didn’t see our grandma for nearly a year and we m____5.____ her very much. After lunch my mother and I went s____6.____. We bought a lot of food that Grandma liked. My sister cleaned the house. It was four o’clock when we finished and sat around the table, waiting for Grandma. At last the door opened and came in my father a_____7.___.

“W____8._____ is Grandma?” we asked.

Father laughed and said, “April Fools. Today is April F___9.___, April Fool’s Day.”

We were disappointed(失望) after we hear this b____10._____ we all laughed.

The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.

Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.

Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.

The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.

Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.

The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”

These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.

American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.

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1.One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.

2.The reason why American runner Edewin Moses was regarded as a

“Shoo-in” is _________.

3.Which is the following statement is not true?

4.The main idea of the passage is that “shoo-in” is_______.

5.In the last paragraph the author means to tell us ________.

The American expression “shoo-in” means someone or something that seems sure to win a race or competition.
Before a big football game, supporters of each are certain to argue about which side will win.
Sometimes, however, one team appears so much stronger than the others that everyone agrees it will win.. The stronger team is a shoo-in. There is no way that it can lose.
The expression “shoo-in” comes from horse racing. It comes from the world “shoo”. That is not the shoe we wear on our feet. It’s another word, S-H-O-O. To shoo is an expression hundreds of years old that means to force an animal to move in a desired direction.
Many years ago dishonest riders sometimes agreed secretly to control their horses so that one chosen horse would win the race. but one of the riders would hold back their horses. The chosen rider would shoo his horse ahead of the others, and win the race.
The other riders would secretly bet large amounts of money that the chosen horse would win. The public soon learned about such about such race. They began to call the winners of such a race a “shoo-in”
These days, people use shoo into describe any athlete or competition that seems certain to win, even without cheating.
American runner Edewin Moses won more than hundred races before he ran the hurdle race in the 1984 Olympic Games. Everyone said Moses was a shoo-in, and that he could not lost. And they were right. He won the gold medal.
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【小題1】One of the dishonest riders was sure to win the race because_______.