高级英语（第三版）第一册第十二课 Ships in the Desert.pptVIP

Para.1 typical example of environmental destruction The Aral sea The Aral Sea: *located in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan *historically a saline lake *In 1960 the world’s fourth largest lake, the size of the entirety of Southern California *in the center of a large, flat desert basin a prime example of a dynamic environment America’s Great Lakes * the group of five freshwater lakes, central North America, between the United States and Canada, largest body of fresh water in the world From west to east, they are Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario HOMES—H stands for Huron, O for Ontario, M for Michigan, E for Erie and S for Superior. Para. 2 Thesis statement My search for the underlying causes of the environmental crisis has let me to travel around the world to check and study cases in order to find out the basic causes behind the environmental crisis Trans-Antarctic Mountains Antarctica is icy cold. Trans-Antarctic Mountains divided it into the East Antarctic and West Antarctic subcontinents. the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky the sun shining at midnight through the ozone depletion a hole: ozone depletion 臭氧层空洞 Clean Air Act: ??American Congress passed the Clean Air Act in 1970, which is one of the oldest environmental laws of the U.S. as well as the most far-reaching, the costliest, and the most controversial. Para. 3 the global warming seen in the Antarctic The Arctic Circle an imaginary line drawn round the world at a certain distance from the most northern point (the North Pole), north of which there is no darkness for six months of each year and almost no light for the other six months. cf. the Antarctic Circle ? tundra: any of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the Arctic regions The images of destruction at the equator Amazon rain forest The Brazilian Amazon contains about a third of the Earths remaining tropical forest and a very high portion of its biological diversity. One hecta