タイトル:Global warming already killing species, analysis says 次のリードからメッセージを動詞に着目して捉えましょう。 have begun dying off or changing
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly.
3パラ:so rapidlyの例示
At least 70 species of frogs, mostly mountain-dwellers that had nowhere to go to escape the creeping heat, have gone extinct because of climate change, the analysis says. It also reports that between 100 and 200 other cold-dependent animal species, such as penguins and polar bears are in deep trouble.
TOEIC必須語彙 die off , pass away , die out, extinguish(同意語ではありません、連鎖的なイメージとしてご利用ください)
★人の場合には亡くなった場合、 the late grandfather のように the late(故人)という敬称をつけることがあります。 比較変化 late latter last late later latest は日本語に考えると意味の不一致がありますので、ひっかかりやすく、よくパラフレーズの対象として出題されます。 the last person to do ・・・ be unlikely to do the latest model・・・ state of the art(主に技術系での) the latter (後者)に対して the former(前者)
These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly.
At least 70 species of frogs, mostly mountain-dwellers that had nowhere to go to escape the creeping heat, have gone extinct because of climate change, the analysis says. It also reports that between 100 and 200 other cold-dependent animal species, such as penguins and polar bears are in deep trouble.