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Australian Climate Change

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Every day millions of lights and computers are left on in deserted offices, apartments, and houses. Environmental activists say that simply switching them off could cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions by five percent over the next year. Per capita, Australia is one of the world's largest producers of carbon dioxide and other gases that many scientists believe are helping to warm the Earth's atmosphere, causing climate upset. A long-standing drought and serious water shortages in Australia have focused much attention on climate change. Some experts warn higher temperatures could leave this nation of 20 million people at the mercy of more severe droughts and devastating tropical cyclones.

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Every day millions of lights and computers are left on in deserted offices, apartments, and houses. Environmental activists say that simply switching them off could cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions by five percent over the next year. Per capita, Australia is one of the world's largest producers of carbon dioxide and other gases that many scientists believe are helping to warm the Earth's atmosphere, causing climate upset. A long-standing drought and serious water shortages in Australia have focused much attention on climate change. Some experts warn higher temperatures could leave this nation of 20 million people at the mercy of more severe droughts and devastating tropical cyclones. Question: What does this passage suggest climate change will bring to Australia? A) Gas emissions B) Environmental activists C) Carbon dioxide D) Drought

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Answer: D) Drought

Explanation: The question asks what climate change is predicted to bring, so look for the sentence about future risk rather than the sentences describing its current causes. A) Incorrect — Gas emissions are described as the cause that switching off lights could cut, not as something climate change itself would bring to Australia. B) Incorrect — Environmental activists are the people making the warning in the passage; they are not a consequence that climate change would bring to the country. C) Incorrect — Carbon dioxide is named as one of the gases Australia produces that contributes to warming, a cause rather than a predicted future consequence for the country. D) Correct — The passage directly warns that higher temperatures could leave Australia "at the mercy of more severe droughts and devastating tropical cyclones", which names drought as a predicted consequence.