Decide which of the choices given below would best
complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best
choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET.
A leading climate change scientist says
the warming of the planet would have a devastating impact on the poor and the
hungry. The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel (31)
Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, says the (32)
of climate change will be mainly felt in the areas of health and agriculture. He
says it is the poor (33) would suffer the most from the
change. He says heat waves in different parts of the world are making people ill
and (34) many deaths. He says the situation is (35)
bad in poor countries that do not have the infrastructure or
necessary means to (36) people from extreme heat.
(37) the agricultural effects of climate change, Pachauri
says a great many people are (38) on rain-fed agriculture.
Climate change would lead to an increase in precipitation ( 降水 ) in temperate
areas, ( 39 ) a decrease in tropical and sub-tropical areas,
where most of the people on Earth live. Those who depend on agriculture for
their (40) , he says, would be (41)
affected by the decrease. "At the global level, with the decline in agricultural
(42) , in the largest countries of the world or the most
(43) countries of the world, we will find that food stocks
will (44) ," Pachauri said. "And, as a matter of fact, that
has already started happening. The result of that will be a(n) (45)
in food prices. Now, (46) in turn, hits the
poorest of the poor very badly. "As countermeasures, the farmers will have to
(47) measures such as the more (48) use
of water resources and new strains of crops that can (49)
higher temperatures and lower (50) of water will have to be
developed.