“In the last 30 years we’ve really moved into exceptional territory,” Gavin Schmidt, director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said. “It’s unprecedented in 1,000 years. There’s no period that has the trend seen in the 20th century in terms of the inclination (of temperatures).”

　　“Maintaining temperatures below the 1.5C guardrail requires significant and very rapid cuts in carbon dioxide emissions or co-ordinated geo-engineering. That is very unlikely. We are not even yet making emissions cuts commensurate with keeping warming below 2C.”

　　Schmidt repeated his previous prediction that there is a 99% chance that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, with around 20% of the heat attributed to a strong El Niño climatic event. Last year is currently the warmest year on record, itself beating a landmark set in 2014.

　　雅思阅读必备真经考点词

　　unprecedented [ʌn'presɪdentɪd]adj. 空前的【同替】unusual, exceptional

　　maintain [meɪn'teɪn]v. 保持【同替】continue, retain

　　require [rɪ'kwaɪə]v. 需求【同替】demand, need

　　unlikely [ʌn'laɪklɪ]adj. 不太可能的【同替】improbable, doubtful

　　prediction [prɪ'dɪkʃ(ə)n] n. 猜测【同替】forecast, anticipation

　　雅思阅读必备长难句剖析

　　Schmidt repeated his previous prediction that there is a 99% chance that 2016 will be the warmest year on record, with around 20% of the heat attributed to a strong El Niño climatic event.

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　　Schmidt重申了他之前的猜测，有99%的可能性，2016将会成为有记载以来最热的一年，而其间20%的热量归因于强壮的厄尔尼诺气候。

　　解析

　　prediction that引导同位语从句；chance that再次引导同位语从句；with引导随同结构，补充说明第二个同位语从句；attributed to过去分词引导定语从句。