雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：The 2003 Heatwave

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：The 2003 Heatwave

It was the summer, scientists now realise, when global warming at last made itself unmistakably felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying to a trickle and thousands of heat-related deaths. But just how remarkable is only now becoming clear.

The three months of June, July and August were the warmest ever recorded in western and central Europe, with record national highs in Portugal, Germany and Switzerland as well as in Britain. And they were the warmest by a very long way. Over a great rectangular block of the earth stretching from west of Paris to northern Italy, taking in Switzerland and southern Germany, the average temperature for the summer months was 3.78°C above the long-term norm, said the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, which is one of the world's leading institutions for the monitoring and analysis of temperature records.

That excess might not seem a lot until you are aware of the context - but then you realise it is enormous. There is nothing like this in previous data, anywhere. It is considered so exceptional that Professor Phil Jones, the CRU's director, is prepared to say openly - in a way few scientists have done before - that the 2003 extreme may be directly attributed, not to natural climate variability, but to global warming caused by human actions.

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Questions 1-6

Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet write

YES if the statement agrees with the information

NO if the statement contradicts the information

NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this

1 The average summer temperature in 2003 is almost 4 degrees higher than the average temperature of the past.

2 Global warming is caused by human activities.

3 Jones believes the temperature variation is within the normal range.

4 The temperature is measured twice a day in major cities.

5 There were milder winters rather than hotter summers before 2003.

6 Governments are building new high-altitude ski resorts.

Questions 7-8

Answer the questions below using NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 7-8 on your answer sheet.

7. What are the other two hottest years in Britain besides 2003?

8. What will also influence government policies in the future like the hot summer in 2003?

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