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Practice Listening: Highlight Correct Summary ID: #4273 Medium Temperatures

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A team of economists and scientists set out to answer that question, by linking up economic and climate models to estimate how much warming temperatures could cost the U.S. economy. And they found that for every degree Celsius the temperature goes up? It docks the U.S. gross domestic product, the GDP, by 1.2 percent. But that economic penalty will not be evenly applied. Because the southern U.S. is already much poorer than the northern U.S. today. And it's hotter, too. "You know, if you're already a really hot location, heating up is really harmful." Solomon Hsiang, an economist at UC Berkeley. "Going from 70 to 75 is not nearly as bad as going from 90 to 95." Add in more hurricane damage, smaller crop yields, lost jobs, an increase in death and disease - and the analysis finds that climate change could eat up 20 percent of the poorest counties' income by the end of the century. "Effectively we're harming the poorer populations and in some cases we're actually helping the relatively wealthier northern populations. So this means that climate change can actually increase inequality within the United States."

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The southern U.S. is already much poorer than the northern U.S. And it's hotter, too. Here heating is really harmful, and air conditioning is really costlier. Economists and scientists collectively tried to find out the cost of warming temperatures, which turned out to be more for hot locations. Making poor southern communities even more poorer. The U.S. economy is now facing an additional type of cost. According to economists and scientists, linked up economic and climate models can now estimate how much warming temperatures could cost. Wealthier northern population is making life difficult for poor southern counties. They are using too much of heating, which is really harmful for the whole climate of the U.S.

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Option 1: "The southern U.S. is already much poorer than the northern U.S. And it's hotter, too. Here heating is really harmful, and air conditioning is really costlier."
Explanation: This option focuses on the economic disparity and the harmful effects of heating in the southern U.S., but it fails to capture the main idea of the text, which is about the overall economic impact of climate change on the U.S. economy. It also introduces the concept of air conditioning costs, which is not mentioned in the text.
Option 2: "Economists and scientists collectively tried to find out the cost of warming temperatures, which turned out to be more for hot locations. Making poor southern communities even more poorer."
Explanation: This option accurately summarizes the text by highlighting the efforts of economists and scientists to assess the economic costs of warming temperatures, particularly emphasizing that these costs are more severe for already hot locations like the southern U.S. It captures the essence of the text, which discusses how climate change exacerbates economic inequality.
Option 3: "The U.S. economy is now facing an additional type of cost. According to economists and scientists, linked up economic and climate models can now estimate how much warming temperatures could cost."
Explanation: While this option mentions the economic costs and the involvement of economists and scientists, it lacks specificity regarding the impact on different regions and the inequality aspect discussed in the text. It presents a vague summary that does not reflect the detailed findings about the southern U.S. and the implications of climate change.
Option 4: "Wealthier northern population is making life difficult for poor southern counties. They are using too much of heating, which is really harmful for the whole climate of the U.S."
Explanation: This option misrepresents the text by suggesting that the wealthier northern population is directly causing difficulties for the southern counties through excessive heating. The text does not imply this cause-and-effect relationship and instead focuses on how climate change impacts poorer populations more severely, thus increasing inequality.

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