四级选词填空精选训练

　　But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more __3__ not less so, since the book 'The Limits to Growth' was published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per __4__ of the world's population than at any time in history. Fewer people are __5__. Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been __6__. And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been __7__, or are transient - associated with the early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth, but by __8__ it. One form of pollution - the release of greenhouse gases that causes global warming - does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its total impact is unlikely to __9__ a devastating(令人心神不安的) problem. A bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.

　　Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between __10__ and reality.

　　四级选词填空精选训练选项：

　　[A] pose

　　[B] exaggerated

　　[C] accelerating

　　[D] extinct

　　[E] exist

　　[F] perception

　　[G] wealthy

　　[H] magnified

　　[I] starving

　　[J] head

　　[K] running

　　[L] predicted

　　[M] abundant

　　[N] conception

　　[O] reducing

　　四级选词填空精选训练答案：

　　1. K

　　2. D

　　3. M

　　4. J

　　5. I

　　6. L

　　7. B

　　8. C

　　9. A

　　10. F