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around 7)in the face of 8)in perspective 9)temperate 10)theoretical 2.1) Its profits shrank from $5 million to $ million in the last global financial crisis.2) They will have to adhere to the cultural norms of the organization in order to be successful with their database project.3) My hometown is/lies halfway in between Salk Lake City and Denver.4) I saw waves battering against) the rocks at the bottom of the cliff.5) Flood waters washed away the only bridge connecting the village to the outside world.3.1) Your report on the new car park is fine, but why don39。t you beef it up with some figures?2) There is a wide variation among Internet providers in cost, features, software, reliability and customer service.3) Poverty is one of the reasons for the high incidence of crime in this neighborhood.4) I suggested we sing and dance for the elderly people in the nursing home, and all my roommates were in favor of my idea. 5) Doctors who are pelled to work 36 hours at a stretch cannot possibly be fully efficient.4.1) is attributed to diverse the scary are dying off 2) from esteemed trigger overwhelming 3) melting throwing into turmoil be magnified going up 5.1) think back to / on 2)think … over3)thought of 4)think of… as 5) think up 1) picked up 2) picked out 3) picked up 4) picked on 5) picks at Word 1.1) contaminated 2) contaminate 3) contamination 4) uncontaminated 2.1) habitable 2) habitation 3) inhabit 4) uninhabited 5) uninhabitable 6) inhabited Cloze 1.1) beef up 2) coastal 3) in favour of 4) residents 5) theoretical 6) disastrous 7) battered 8) shrinking 9) migrate 10) washed away 11) Scary 12) humanity 2.1) predicting 2) accuracy 3) basis 4) collide 5) atmosphere 6) melts 7) affected 8) actions 9) striving 10) technologies TranslationMost scientists no longer doubt that the world is warming up and that humanity has altered climate. They agree that the longterm effects of global warming will be disastrous for the planet and its inhabitants. What is more, climate change won39。t be a smooth transition to a warmer world. Some regions will be greatly affected by abrupt climate changes. Enormous areas of densely populated land like coastal Florida would bee uninhabitable. Hundreds of millions of residents would have to migrate to safer regions. Therefore, it is no surprise that global warming has made its way onto the agenda of world leaders.