Whenever we read about the natural

Whenever we read about the natural world nowadays, it is generally to be (1)______ dire presdictions about its imminent destruction. Some scientists go so (2) _______as to assert that from now on, the world can no longer be called ‘natural’, insofar as future processes of weather, (3) _______and all the interactions of plant and animal life will no longer carry on in their time honoured way, unaffected by (4)_______There will never be such a thing as ‘natural weather’ a gain, say such writers, only weather (5)_______by global warming. It is hard to know whether to believe such prophets of doom, possibly because what they are saying seems too terrible to be (6)_______.There are other equally influential scientists whu argue that climate, ford example, has changed many times over the (7)______ and that what we are experiencing now may simply be part of an endless cycle of change, rather than a disaster on a global (8)_______One cannot help wondering whether these attempts to with the problem away (9)________ underline the extent to which western industrianlised countries are to blame for upsetting the world’s (10)_______.

1 A. made B. given C. told D. granted
2 A. much B. often C. really D. far
3 A. change B. atmosphere C. climate D. even
4 A. beings B. man C. people D. human
5 A. built B. manufacture C. affectead D. organized
6 A. stopped B. true C. guessed D. here
7 A. top B. again C. century D. world
8 A. sense B. form C. scale D. existence
9 A. simply B. to C. that D. or
10 A. future B. ecology C. balance D. population