Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read the following passage. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D for each question. 

     In the northern part of Greenland, ice caps, permafrost and gullies dominate the landscape and there’s almost no vegetation. Here became the domain of the Thule who came from Canada in 1200.
     The onset of the Little Ice Age in the 15th century signaled the end of the Ice Age which started 130,000 years ago. Although the Little Ice Age brought Greenland’s temperatures down by merely 0.8℃, it dealt a lethal blow on the southern regions — vegetation and animals succumbed to cold, famine stroke, and European settlements vanished.
     The Inuit people survived. They intermarried with the Europeans who came later and became the forefathers of Greenland’s people today. The Inuit people still live in pretty much the same way as their ancestors. They make Eskimo canoes. They fish with nets. They hunt seals and sea lions. Sometimes they gut the animals and eat them right on the ice. The innards are precious gifts and are taken back to people of high status and guests.
     Planet Earth, a critically acclaimed documentary, tells of the impact climate change is having on the ecosystems of the Arctic from the perspective of a polar bear family. The bears are starved on the seaside since they have no sea lions and seals to hunt as glaciers are cracking.
     The Inuit people are meeting the same fate. Like others, Ajukutoq, a hunter, keeps on complaining to travelers that ice is fast thawing and they are losing the “platforms” they can stand on to hunt animals. They have to use modern fast boats to go further north and look for solid ice surfaces. As the whale population decreases and animals move northwards, whether or not the Inuit’s traditional way of life can continue is thrown into question.
     Ajukutoq is an elected head of a small town. “Cold has never terrified us, but living on the welfare system of the Danish government has,” he said.
     It’s generally accepted that if the global temperature rises by 3℃ , Greenland will be submerged, but outspoken opponents of diehard environmentalists argue that even if that temperature rises by 7℃, Greenland won’t be wiped off the face of the earth. Such argument offers valid moral grounds for tapping the resources hidden under Greenland’s ice sheet, and holds an obvious appeal for the people of Greenland who know precious resources lie under their feet but cannot tap those resources under the watchful eyes of the Danish government and environmentalists.