银行系统招聘考试（英语）历年真题试卷汇编22
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A growing number of countries want to phase out coal entirely，a transition eased by cheap natural gas and the plunging cost of wind and solar power．That is good news．Coal has been the largest engine of climate change to date，accounting for nearly a third of the rise in average temperatures since the Industrial Revolution．Any pressure on it therefore counts as progres．
Asia accounts for 75％ of the world’s coal demand．The Chinese government has taken steps to limit pollution and support renewables．Yet coal consumption there rose in 2018，as it did the year before．In India coal demand grew by 9％ last year．In Vietnam it swelled by almost a quarter．To keep the rise in global temperatures to no more than 1．5℃ relative to pre-industrial times，climatologists insist that almost all coal plants must shut by 2050，which means starting to act now．
Today’s trends would keep the last coal plant open until 2079，estimates UBS，a bank．Asia’s coal-fired power regiment has a sprightly average age of 15，compared with a creaky 40 years in America，close to retirement．
There are several reasons for this，but one stands out：government support．In India state-owned companies invest more than $6bn in coal mining and coal-fired power each year；state-backed banks provide some $10．6bn in financing．Indonesia doles out more than $2bn annually for consumption of coal-fired power．China supports coal not just at home but abroad，supplying about $9．5bn a year in foreign funding．Japan and South Korea finance coal projects outside their borders，too．
Government support is hardly surprising．State-backed coal firms make money and create jobs．Wind turbines and solar panels provide power only intermittently；for now，dirtier power plants are needed as back up．Gas is pummelling coal in America，but remains a bit-player in India and much of South-East Asia，since it has to be imported and is relatively expensive．
Nevertheless，governments betting on coal face three big risks．One is environmental．Emissions from coal plants that are already built-let alone new ones-will ensure that the world exceeds the level of carbon-dioxide emissions likely to push global temperatures up by more than 1．5℃．
There is an economic risk，too．Public-sector zeal for coal is matched only by private-sector distaste．Banks，including Asian ones，have increasingly said they will stop funding new coal plants．
Wind and solar farms make coal look increasingly expensive．A study has found that private banks provided three-quarters of loans to Indian renewables projects last year；state-backed banks doled out two-thirds of those for coal．
And then there is politics．Voters do not like breathing soot．More of them are concerned about climate change，too，as they face unpredictable growing seasons，floods and droughts．
1.According to this passage，which energy is the key factor to climate change?(B)
A. Oil．
B. Coal．
C. Gas．
D. Panels．
解析：细节题。题干：根据文章内容，哪种能源是气候变化的关键因素?该题的关键是“the key factor to climate change”，同义替换了文章中的“the largest engine of climate change”，定位到文章第一段第三句“Coal has been the largest engine of climate change to date，accounting for nearly a third of the rise in average temperatures since the Industrial Revolution(迄今为止，煤炭一直是气候变化的最大引擎，导致自工业革命以来平均气温上升了近三分之一)”可知，煤炭对平均气温的上升影响很大，是气候变化的关键因素，故本题选B项“煤
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