Laupepa expressed dissatisfaction with the United States for refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement calling for industrialized nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions（导致温室效应的气体排放）,which are a main cause of global warming . “By refusing to sign the agreement ,the US has effectively taken away the freedom of future generations of Tuvaluans to live where their forefathers have lived for thousands of years,” Laupepa told the BBC.

　　Tuvalu has asked Australia and New Zealand to allow the gradual move of its people to both countries .

　　Tuvalu is not the only country that is vulnerable （易受影响的）to rising sea levels .Maumoon Gayoon ,president of the Maldives ,told the United Nations that global warming has made his country of 311,000 an “endangered nation”.

　　1．The text is mainly about           .

　　A．rapid changes in earth’s temperature 

　　B．bad effects of global warming

　　C．moving of a country to a new place       D．reasons for lowland flooding

　　2．According to scientists ,the DIRECT cause of more and fiercer storms is           .

　　A．greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized nations

　　B．higher surface water temperatures of the sea

　　C．continuous global warming                  

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