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来源： The guardian (Björn Lomborg guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 June 2009 09.00 BST )

链接网址：http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/jun/15/climate-change-children

Scared silly over climate change

The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it 62 our kids.

Al Gore famously 63 how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, 64 the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, 65 that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.

When 66 with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely 67 is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.

This 68 is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying 69 about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus, 70 , on global warming’s impact on malaria(疟疾)— which will put slightly more people at 71 in 100 years—instead of tackling the half a billion people 72 from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.

73 also wears out the public’s willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is 74 , people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A 75 of people now believe—incorrectly—that global warming is not even caused by humans.

But the 76 cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes—particularly 77 children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal 78 from global warming.

The newspaper also reported that parents are 79 “productive”outlets for their eight-year-olds’ obsessions (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, Contrary 80 common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled (成为四倍) over the past half-century, to about 22,000. 81 diminishing—and eventually disappearing—summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.

62. A）exhausts C) terrifies
B) suppresses D) disgusts

63. A）dismissed C) deposited
B) distracted D) depicted

64. A）as if C) in that
B) even though D) in case

65. A) measuring C) estimating
B) signifying D) extracting

66. A) confronted C) equipped
B) identified D)entrusted

67. A) such B)what
C) there D)which

68. A) morality B)argument
C) interaction D)dialogue

69. A) prevalently C)expressively
B) predictably D) excessively

70. A) for example C) by contrast
B) in addition D) in short

71. A) will C) ease
B) large D) risk

72. A) suffering C) developing
B) deriving D) stemming

73. A) Explanation C) Exaggeration
B) Reservation D) Revelation

74. A) dumped C) doubled
B) dimmed D) doomed

75. majority

76. worst

77. among

78. extinction

79. searching for

80. to

81. Despite