15 câu hỏi
Choose the best answer. A strong greenhouse effect will warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers, increasing ______.
Temperature
Water
sea level
pollution
Choose the best answer. Ocean water also will expand if it warms, _______further to sea level rise.
Getting
Making
Leading
Contributing
Choose the best answer. The clearing of land for agriculture, industry, and other human activities have increased ______ of greenhouse gases.
Concentrations
Attention
Loss
collections
Choose the best answer. Conjunctivitis caused by the common cold is very __________ and can spread rapidly between people.
Polluted
heat-related
hot
infectious
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. Environmental groups want a substantial reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases.
Release
Import
Export
charge
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. Coming on top of the previous years of extreme scarcity of food, however, the longer term economic implications were profound.
Drought
Famine
Flood
earthquake
Choose the best answer. Greenpeace works to promote public_______of the dangers that threaten our planet today.
Information
Awareness
Knowledge
idea
Choose the best answer.________is the gradual warming of the earth because of heat trapped by carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere.
Atmosphere
Ecosystem
Greenhouse effect
Diversity
Choose the best answer. In cold climates, houses need to have walls that will______heat.
Remove
Get
Take
absorb
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. The law bans the import of ivory into the country.
Prohibits
Encourages
Calls for
stimulates
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. Some hold the view that an increase in interspecies competition leads to local extinctions and a decrease in diversity.
Number
Environment
Habitat
variety
Choose the best answer. The destruction of the rain forests is an______disaster.
Ecology
Ecological
Ecologist
ecologically
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. Pollution can have disastrous effects on the delicately balanced ecosystem.
Catastrophic
Infectious
Unimportant
minor
Choose the best answer. Over 100 million was allocated for the ______ of hazardous chemicals and radioactive waste.
break-up
tidy-up
clear-up
clean-up
Choose the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in the following questions. Coal-fired power stations must be retrofitted to capture carbon dioxide.
Catch
Absorb
Keep
discharge








