新视野大学英语视听说教程(第二版)第三册答案(12)

The UN is anxious to raise awareness of the problems facing mountain areas because they are inhabited by some of the most vulnerable people.

These people could lose their culture and their livelihood with even the smallest shifts in climate.

At the same time, many mountain regions are losing people. Thousands of villages in Europe are deserted most of the year.

In other areas like Nepal, people are drifting to the cities in search of work.

Keys:

(1)negative

(2)report

(3)warming

(4)pressures

(5)mountainous

(6)barely

(7)make way for

(8)expect 98 percent of the mountain areas to experience severe climate change by 2055

(9)The UN is anxious to raise awareness of the problems facing mountain areas

(10)Thousands of villages in Europe are deserted most of the year