UnitPreservingOurPlanet.docVIP

Unit 3 Preserving Our Planet Part B Grammar (比较级) Part C Translation (增词) Part D Supplementary Reading (Art for Sale) Text —————————————— Warm-up Questions: 1. Do you know how much damage human activity is doing to the environment? 2. What kinds of environmental problems have appeared on our planet in recent years? 3. Have you got some ideas about how to preserve our planet? Preserving Our Planet Despite decades of scientific research, no-one yet knows how much damage human activity is doing to the environment. do good to ?? do damage to, do harm to benefit ?? harm, hurt, injure to be in charge of to be responsible for Humans are thought to be responsible for a large number of environmental problems, ranging from global warming to ozone depletion. What is not in doubt, however, is the devastating effect humans are having on the animal and plant life of the planet. Have bad/ devastating effect / impact / influence on Now / At present, Recently, Currently, Architect, Urban planner, City planner Interior designer, Room Acoustics, Historian Consultant, geographer, landscape designer Office, School of Architecture Professional Currently, an estimated 50,000 species become extinct every year. If this carries on / continues / goes on, the impact on all living creatures is likely to be profound, says Dr Nick Middleton, a geographer at Oxford University. All species depend in some way on each other to survive. And the danger is that, if you remove one species from this very complex web of interrelationships, you have very little/ no idea about the knock-on effects on the ecosystem. So, if you lose a key species, you might cause a whole flood of other extinctions. Complicating matters is the fact that there are no obvious solutions to the problem. Unlike global warming and ozone depletion－which, if the political will was there, could be reduced by cutting gas emissions－preserving bio-diversity remains an intractable problem. The