Nobel Speech - Al Gore

What is the main topic of Gore’s Nobel speech?

• water pollution

• climate change

• political conflict

• renewable energy

According to Gore’s Nobel speech, why is little being done to reduce global warming?

• People know that the problem will resolve itself.

• People fail to recognize the danger of the situation.

• People assume that the government is tackling the issue.

• People think that global warming is good for the earth.

According to Gore, how should people respond to the environmental crisis that he describes in his Nobel speech?

• suspiciously

• privately

• slowly

• rapidly

What solution to reduce global warming does Gore propose in his Nobel speech?

 

• release trapped heat

• limit CO₂ emissions

• close coal factories

• ban motor vehicles

Near the end of his Nobel speech, why does Gore criticize the United States and China?

• The countries do not encourage other nations to help solve the environmental crisis.

• The countries fail to attend international meetings to discuss global warming concerns.

• The countries refuse to share useful renewable energy technologies with other nations.

• The countries emit the most CO₂ in the world but do little to control its negative impact.

           Part A: Which answer choice describes Gore’s main reason for writing his Nobel speech?

• to convince people to act

• to describe scientific facts

• to demand a political treaty

• to thank the prize committee

Part B Which sentence from the Nobel speech best supports the answer to Part A?

• Seven years later, Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.

• The experts have told us it is not a passing affliction that will heal by itself.

• We are what is wrong, and we must make it right.

• The very web of life on which we depend is being ripped and frayed.

   

Part A In his Nobel speech, what is Gore’s attitude regarding the progress made to reduce global warming?

• distrustful but forgiving

• concerned but positive

• pleased but confused

• interested but lazy

Part B Which sentence from the speech best supports the answer to Part A?

• We, the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency—a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential even as we gather here.

• So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.

• We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war.

• These are the last few years of decision, but they can be the first years of a bright and hopeful future if we do what we must.

Read the following sentence from Gore’s Nobel speech.

In every land, the truth—once known—has the power to set us free.

                What is most likely the point that Gore is making with this statement?

 

• Freedom is more important than acknowledging truth.

• Truth should only be shared with certain individuals.

• People who become aware of the truth can change.

• Every nation has a different understanding of truth.