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A warmer world is going to be a sicker world for everything
from trees to marine life to people,according to a new report by a
panel of U.S.scientists.But opponents remain unconvincing there is 【S1】______
sufficient evidence to support the conclusion.
A team of researchers led by Drew Harvell at Cornell University
have completed a two-year study into climate-disease links.’That is 【S2】______
most surprising is the fact that cli mate sensitive outbreak are 【S3】______
happening with so many different types of pathogens—viruses,
bacteria and parasites (寄生虫)—as well in such a wide 【S4】______
range of hosts including corals (珊瑚虫),oysters,land plants
and birds,’Harvell says.
the Co-researcher Richard Ostfeld,an animal ecologist at
Institute of Ecosystem Studies,adds,’This isn’t just a
question of coral bleaching for a few marine ecologists,or just 【S5】______
a question of malaria (疟疾)for a few healthy officials—the
number of similar increases in disease incidence is astonishing.
We don’t want to be alarmist,but we are alarmed.’
The U.S.team found evidence for a variety of routes
for climate warming to adverse affect disease spread,For 【S6】______
instance,warmer winters could reduce seasonal die-off many
pathogens and their carders,or allow them to move into areas
what were previously too cold.
The researchers examined a number of human diseases 【S7】______
which spread researchers have connected to warming,including 【S8】______
malaria,Lyme disease,yellow fever and others.Most involved
in the expanded range of carriers into higher latitudes.The 【S9】______
authors concede that such connections are controversial because
countless factors except climate,such as economics and failed 【S10】______
Prevention measures,play roles in the spread of human diseases.

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unconvincing → unconvinced
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Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English while in exile,documents show in Britain for the first time reveal.【M1】______The deposed French emperor apparently wanted to learn thelanguage of his foes so he can read what the London papers were【M2】______writing about him.Scraps of paper from his English lessons in captivity on theisland of St Helena go on show at London’s National Maritime Museum.They contain lines of French partly translated by Napoleon into 【M3】______English.Count Emmanuel de las Cases,who accompanied the emperorinto exile after he surrendered to the English at the Battle ofWaterloo,wrote about the emperors desire to learn the language by 【M4】______his memoirs.According to him,Napoleon had his first lesson on 17 January,1816,when he asked las Cases to dictate to him some sentences inFrench,what he then translated,using a table of auxiliary verbs and a 【M5】______dictionary.According to historian Dr.Peter Hicks,las Cases describes howNapoleon hated being sat down to work as a schoolboy but steeled 【M6】______himself for the task.Dr.Hicks said:’He was not necessary anti-English.He had to 【M7】______fright because it was the enemy of France.’He added:’In France people are amazed to find that he waslearning English.But he didn’t do it for pleasure.He wondered howmuch money he could have saved in translation if he could learn 【M8】______English.’The documents are to feature in the Greenwich MuseumsNelson and Napoleon exhibition,being held to mark the 200thanniversary of Nelson’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar.They are among a wide range of letters,paintings,personalitems and objects lent by galleries and museums across Europe.The English lesson papers,described by Dr.Hicks for ’quite 【M9】______remarkable’,are loan from the Foundation Napoleon in Paris.【M10】______