The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it   62   our kids.
Al Gore famously   63   how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai,   64   the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen,   65   that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that.
When   66   with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely   67   is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.
This   68   is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm. Worrying   69   about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good. We focus,   70  , on global warming’s impact on malaria（疟疾）— which will put slightly more people at   71   in 100 years—instead of tackling the half a billion people   72   from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.
  73   also wears out the public’s willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is   74  , people wonder, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A   75   of people now believe—incorrectly—that global warming is not even caused by humans.
But the   76   cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the unnecessary alarm that it causes—particularly   77   children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal   78   from global warming.
The newspaper also reported that parents are   79   “productive”outlets for their eight-year-olds’ obsessions (忧心忡忡) with dying polar bears. They might be better off educating them and letting them know that, Contrary   80   common belief, the global polar bear population has doubled and perhaps even quadrupled (成为四倍) over the past half-century, to about 22,000.   81   diminishing—and eventually disappearing—summer Arctic ice, polar bears will not become extinct.
62. A）exhausts       C) terrifies
   B) suppresses  D) disgusts
63. A）dismissed      C) deposited
   B) distracted  D) depicted
64. A）as if        C) in that
   B) even though   D) in case
65. A) measuring C) estimating
B) signifying D) extracting
66. A) confronted C) equipped
B) identified D)entrusted
67. A) such B)what
   C) there D)which
68. A) morality B)argument
C) interaction D)dialogue
69. A) prevalently C)expressively
   B) predictably D) excessively
70. A) for example C) by contrast
   B) in addition D) in short
71. A) will C) ease
   B) large D) risk
72. A) suffering C) developing
   B) deriving D) stemming
73. A) Explanation C) Exaggeration
   B) Reservation D) Revelation
74. A) dumped C) doubled
   B) dimmed D) doomed
75. majority
76. worst
77. among
78. extinction
79. searching for
80. to
81. Despite