12月英语四级选词填空实例训练（六）

　　2013年下半年，英语四级将改革，局部题型发生变化。选词填空在英语四级考试中，是考生们很难逾越的难关，很多考生做到这类题型都会选择直接放弃。其实，只要大量练习，再加上归纳总结，选词填空拿高分并不难。下面小编整理了选词填空题型训练，希望对考生们有帮助。

　　For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hitlist of our main fears: natural resources are 1 out? the population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat? species are becoming 2 in vast numbers, and the planets air and water are becoming ever more polluted.

　　But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more 3 not less so, since the book The Limits to Growth was published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per 4 of the worlds population than at any time in history. Fewer people are 5 . Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years, not 25~50%, as has so often been 6 . And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been 7 , or are transient - associated with the early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth, but by 8 it. One form of pollution - the release of greenhouse gases that causes global warming - does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its total impact is unlikely to 9 a devastating problem. A bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.

　　Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between 10 and reality.

　　A) pose

　　B) exaggerated

　　C) accelerating

　　D) extinct

　　E) exist

　　F) perception

　　G) wealthy

　　H) magnified

　　I) starving

　　J) head

　　K) running

　　L) predicted

　　M) abundant

　　N) conception

　　O) reducing