Questions 26-35 Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, mark the correct letter A, B, Cor D. Example answer: A B C D The Melting Arctic Vast and white, easily visible (0) from space, Earth's Arctic ice cap seems (26).............permanent that the idea that it could ever vanish is (27)........ fact vanish, thanks to our burning of fossil fuels. The North Pole and most of the ocean around it will be ice-free ..............unbelievable. However, by the middle of the century, most of it will in in summer for the first time in thousands of years. The (28)....... enormous and many ice-dependent (29) ...............may not survive in the new, blue Arctic. ............... on the region's people and wildlife, will be To (30)...... .............even worse impacts than the loss of Arctic ice, later in this century, we'll have to (31) ............only shut down emissions but also find a way to clean up what we've already put into the atmosphere. That technology, once developed, would give us the ability to (32) ..............the planet - which scientists say would mean we could bring the ice back. The question is, will future generations, accustomed (33)............... warmer world and an Arctic now open to shipping, resource development, and tourism want to (34). to the icy norm of their ancestors? But (35) ............... importantly, will powerful economic interests allow it?
