20. Which of the following best describes the authors attitude toward the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and its consequences?
Incredulous
Completely detached
Interested but skeptical
Angry yet resigned
Objective yet concerned
21. It can be concluded from information contained in the passage that the average temperature at an altitude of 1 kilometer above the Earth is about
15℃
9℃
2.5℃
-12℃
-18℃
22. It can be inferred from the passage that the construction of the mathematical model mentioned in the passage involved the formulation of which of the following?
An assumption that the amount of carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere would in reality steadily increase
An assumption that human activities are the only agencies by which carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere
Assumptions about the social and political consequences of any curtailment of the use of fossil fuels
Assumptions about the physical conditions that are likely to prevail during the period for which the model was made
Assumptions about the differential behavior of carbon dioxide molecules at the various levels of temperature calculated in the model
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