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“Rising seas have forced 100 people on a Pacific island to move to higher ground in what may be the first example of a village formally displaced（搬迁）because of modern global warming，”a U.N. report said on Monday.

      With coconut palms on the coast already standing in water, inhabitants（居民）in the Lateu settlement（定居点）on Tegua island in Vanuatu moved about 600 yards（meters） inland.

      “They could no longer live on the coast,” Taito Nakalevu, a climate change expert at the Secretariat of the pacific Regional Environment Programme, said during a 189-nation conference in Montreal on ways to fight climate change. So-called “king tides” has become stronger in recent years and made Lateu uninhabitable by flooding the village 4 to 5 times a year. The U.N. Environment Programme（UNEP） said in a statement that the Lateu settlement has become one of ,if not the first, to be formally moved out of harm’s way as a result of climate change.

The scientists said that seas could rise by almost 3 feet（a meter） by 2100 because of melting ice caps and warming linked to a build-up of heat-trapping gases given off by burning fuels in power plants, factories and cars.

      Pacific Islanders are among those most at risk. Off  Papua New Guinea, about 2000 people on the Cantaret Islands are planning to move to nearly Bougainville island, four hours’ boat ride to the southwest. Two uninhabited         Kiribati island, Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, disappeared underwater in 1999.

1． The purpose of the 189-nation conference in Montreal is to________________.

A． discuss how to settle the people of Lateu        

B． discuss how to deal with the global warming

C． offer help to the Pacific Islanders             

D． find ways to control the pollution in the world

2． Bougainville island _____________________.

A． is uninhabited                 

B． has disappeared underwater

C．is higher than the Cantaret islands  

D． is four hours’ walk from the Cantaret Islands

3． The inhabitants in the Lateu settlement ___________________.

A． had to move to higher ground in the same island 

B． had to move to another higher island

C． are planning to move to nearby Bougainville island

D． were forced to plant many coconut palms

4． Which of the following is the best title?

A． The global warming

B． Two uninhabited islands

C． Pacific Islanders most at risk

D． Pacific Islanders move to escape global warming

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