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优点英语 优点英语 专项训练02 环境保护 语法填空 Under the influence of global warming, extreme weather events such as heat waves and floods may become Europes new normal in summer _______ have increasingly affected the European population, economy and nature, the European Environment Agency said in a recent report. Between 1980 and 2021, weather- and climate-related extremes caused economic _______(lose) estimated at $606 billion in the European Union, while nearly 195,000 fatalities have been caused by floods, storms, heat and cold waves, forest fires, and landslides, the agency said. Many other regions across the world have also experienced record-breaking temperatures and precipitation patterns, _________(lead) to disruptions in agriculture, infrastructure damage, and threats to human health and ________(safe). Qu Sixiao, senior project manager of the global consultancy Roland Berger, said extreme weather events are caused by the overall climate change, and the core reason for climate change is excessive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities since the industrial era, ________ surpassed the capacity of the environment. Climate change has two main impacts, he said. On the one hand, it contributes to the rise in global temperatures, which, in turn, leads to __________(increase) sea levels, melting of polar ice, and so on. On the other hand, because of global warming, certain areas are experiencing a significant increase in extreme weather events, including intensifying temperature variations, enhanced precipitation, and a rise in severe storms or hurricanes. The threat ________(pose) by climate change is indeed urgent, and it is a positive step that more than 190 parties have signed the Paris Agreement with a goal _________(combat 与...斗争) climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees above preindustrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees. Nearly 150 countries and regions worldwide have made______________(com