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With much of the rest of the nation stuck in climate-change denial or passive irritability, Chicago has been planning, moving, doing— (47) streets and buildings to the coming reality of snowier winters, wetter springs and hotter summers. By the end of the century, as Leslie Kaufman reported in The Times, the place will feel more like Baton Rouge, La. Other cities should pay (48) .
City planners examined a century’s worth of weather records and found the long-term (49) grim. Using thermal (热的) radar, they are locating the hottest areas and finding ways to (50) them: removing impermeable (不可能渗透的) blacktop (柏油路) that traps water and heat, building rooftop gardens, planting southern varieties of trees and adding (51) to classrooms. The city hopes that these investments will save money. They will (52) save lives.
Much of these efforts were begun under former Mayor Richard Daley, who took to heart the conclusions of the Kyoto conference on global warming. But the city, like other high-risk areas, is also facing (53) from insurance companies, which don’t like the prospect of huge future payouts for disaster damage that could have been (54) or alleviated.
It would be far better if there were a federal (55) to plan and guide the nation’s adaptation to the challenging years ahead. Given the politics on Capitol Hill, we are not (56) But at least in Chicago the change is taking hold.
A. adapting
B. air-conditioning
C. attention
D. beautify
E. cool
F. framework
G. inevitably
H) optimistic
I) pressure
J) prevented
K) protected
L) realistic
M) rules
N) surely
O) trends