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W: Earlier this year, British explorer Pen Huddle and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.
女：今年年初，佩恩·赫德尔及其团队在北冰洋上艰苦跋涉了3个月，他们对冰进行了测量和记录。
M: Well we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.
男：我们误以为我们能找到很大一部分经过多年冻结形成的更年长、更厚的冰层，这些冰已经存在很多年了，而且会越来越厚。
We actually found there wasn't any multi-year ice at all.
但事实上，我们发现这里根本没有任何多年冻结的冰层。
W: Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.
女：在过去的几年里，卫星观测和海底勘测结果显示极地冰越来越少，近期的测量结果显示极地冰的减少比人们先前想象的更为明显。
M: We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.
男：我们发现覆盖在北冰洋的冰在大约10年后会减少将近80%，并且20年后冰将全部融化。
W: Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams, who's been measuring and monitoring the Arctic since 1971 says the decline is irreversible.
女：剑桥科学家彼得·沃德姆斯一直在测量和监控北极区域的冰，他认为北极冰的减少是不可逆转的。
M: The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer,
男：北极冰减少的越多，无冰水面就会越多，从而无冰水面的气温在夏天会持续升高。
the less ice forms in winter, the more melt there is the following summer.
冬天结的冰也就会减少，来年夏天融化的冰也会增多。
It becomes a breakdown process where everything ends up accelerating until it's all gone.
这就形成了冰的融化过程，所有的步骤都加速了，直到所有的冰都融化。
W: Martin Sommerkorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund.
女：马丁·索摩空负责环保慈善机构世界自然基金会的北极项目。
M: The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deteriorating faster than expected.
北极冰占据地球气候系统的中心位置，并且北极冰恶化的速度比预期的更快。
Actually it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions.
这也就是说我们必须采取紧急措施来应对气候变化并减少温室气体的排放量。
W: Summerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.
女：索摩空称减少温室气体排放量的计划需要在12月份的哥本哈根气候变化峰会中制定出来。
M: We have to basically achieve there the commitment to deal with the problem now. That's the minimum.
男：现在，我们起码要就解决这一问题达成一致承诺。这是最基本的。
We have to do that equitably and we have to find a commitment that is quick.
我们必须公平地去处理问题并采取快速的行动。
W: Wadhams echoes the need for urgency.
沃德姆斯重申了采取紧急措施的重要性。
M: The carbon that we've put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years.
男：我们排放到大气中的二氧化碳所产生的温室效应将持续100年。
So we have to cut back rapidly now, because it will take a long time to work its way through into a response by the atmosphere.
所以，我们现在必须快速地减少二氧化碳的排放量，因为该措施需要很长时间才能降低空气中的二氧化碳含量。
We can't switch off global warming just by being good in the future, we have to start being good now.
我们仅通过以后的良好措施是不能阻止全球变暖的，我们必须现在就采取行动。
W: Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change. He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels,
女：沃德姆斯称目前没有简单的技术手段能解决气候变化问题。他和其他科学家说目前主要有两种能源来替代化石燃料，
generating energy with renewables, or embracing nuclear power.
再生能源或者核能。
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
问题19-22是基于刚刚你所听到的那段录音。
Question19. What did Pen Huddle and his team do in the Arctic Ocean?
问题19：佩恩·赫德尔和他的团队在北冰洋做了什么？
Question20. What does the report say about the Arctic region?
问题20：这份报告报道了有关北极地区的什么？
Question21. What does Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams say in his study?
问题21：剑桥科学家彼得·沃德姆斯在他的研究中说了什么？
Question22. How does Peter Wadhams view climate change?
问题22：彼得·沃德姆斯如何看待气候变化问题？
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