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OG 18verbal 93题
原文：
Scientists have been puzzled by the seeming disparity between models of global warming based on greenhouse gas emissions and actual climatological data. In short, the world is not warming up as much as these models have predicted. In the early 1990s, Pat Michaels sought to explain this disparity, suggesting that sulfate emissions in industrial areas had a cooling effect, thus temporarily retarding global warming. Michaels later came to doubt this idea, however, pointing out that since most sulfate is emitted in the Northern Hemisphere, its cooling influence should be largely limited to that hemisphere. Yet, since 1987, warming in the Southern Hemisphere, which had been relatively intense, has virtually ceased, while warming in the north has accelerated. Thus, Michaels not only doubted the idea of sulfate cooling, but came to feel that global warming models themselves may be flawed. Ben Santer disagrees.
Santer contends that, in general, global warming occurs more slowly in the south because this hemisphere is dominated by oceans, which warm more slowly than the landmasses that dominate the Northern Hemisphere. But, according to Santer, the situation remains complicated by sulfate cooling, which peaked in the north in the mid-twentieth century. It drastically slowed warming in the Northern Hemisphere, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere raced ahead . Since 1987, Santer argues, the greenhouse effect has reasserted itself, and the north has taken the lead. Thus, Santer disputes Michaels’s claim that model predictions and observed data differ fundamentally.
题目：
According to the passage, Santer asserts which of the following about global warming?
- AIt will become a more serious problem in the Southern Hemisphere than in the Northern Hemisphere in spite of the cooling influence of oceans in the south.
- BIt is unlikely to be a serious problem in the future because of the pervasive effect of sulfate cooling.
- CIt will proceed at the same general rate in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres once the temporary influence of sulfate cooling comes to an end.
- DUntil the late 1980s, it was moderated in the Northern Hemisphere by the effect of sulfate cooling.
- ELargely because of the cooling influence of oceans, it has had no discernible impact on the Southern Hemisphere.
正确答案是D 不太理解D。D的意思是说直到20世纪80年代后期（那是对应文章1987吧？），在北半球sulfate cooling使得全球变暖变缓了，
可是文中不是说的是在20世纪中期，sulfate cooling使得北半球全球变暖减慢吗，到了1987，北半球全球变暖又领先了吗？
难道我对until的理解有什么误解吗？请大神指教！谢谢
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