高等学校研究生英语系列教材综合教程(下)主编熊海虹教学课件第8单元.ppt

Content Starting out Reading Focus Reading More Practical Translation Focused Writing Final Project Task 1 Watch the following video carefully to learn how global warming is threatening the traditional way of life on the Chesapeake Bays Smith Island as its water level rises and its blue crab stocks dwindle and complete the blank-filling exercise. Smith Island Smith Island is a lonely outpost, 12 miles out in the lower Chesapeake Bay. The shallow grassy waters around the cluster of islands that _________Smith Island are some of the best blue crab habitat in the Bay. For more than 300 years the people here have ________ nature’s hardships. But, increasingly, they sense that a more ___________ future lies ahead. The watermen are bringing in smaller catches, and profits ______________. The population has dropped from more than 800 to about 300 over the last 100 years, and Smith Island is ______________. Most of the Island is only 1 foot above sea level. The higher areas where the people live are just 2-4 feet above the water. Coastal ecologists say the Chesapeake Bay has risen by more than a half foot over the past century and ___________________________. Crumbling wooden crab shacks and battered bulwarks are testimony to the Island’s ____________ to the sea. To help the Islanders’ beat back the bay, the army call of engineers launched a plan to _______ new bulkheads and stone breakwaters aroundTanleten, part of a multi-million-dollar plan to_______________ __________________________________. _________________________________________ __________ “If a hurricane category 4 comes up and actually hits this Island, I think it could be flattened. It probably is the case that over the next century if_______________________________________, we probably will have a few higher spots, but not much more.” Most people hope that the new efforts to stem e