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智 课 网 托 福 备 考 资 料 一起学托福阅读之环境科学篇--发展计划让河流受危害- 智课教育旗下智课教育 本文和大家一起学托福阅读之环境科学篇--发展计划让河流名列危 险名单，这篇托福阅读材料供考生参考使用，希望考生能够认真备考， 预祝考生能够考出好成绩。 人类为了商业利益，会不断向自然索取。开发新的商业资源，有时 候却伤害了本来平静的环境。美国的科罗拉多河就即将成为某个发展计 划下的牺牲品，本来平静的它已经被列在了危险名单上。到底是怎样的 ？接下来就和托福小编一起开始看看今天的托福阅读材料吧！ 在阅读之前，一起学习一下这篇文章中的疑难词； wind through弯弯曲曲地通过 reopen vt. 使再开，使重开vi. 重开 imminent adj. 即将来临的 ；迫近的 imperil vt. 危及；使陷于危险 advocacy n. 主张；拥护；辩护 Slice n. 薄片vt.将…切成薄片 awe-inspiring adj. 使人敬畏的 ；令人惊叹的 开始阅读吧！ Grand Canyon Development Plans Put River on Endangered List 大峡谷发展计划让河流名列危险名单 The stretch of the Colorado River that winds through the Grand Canyon tops a new list of the nation’s most endangered rivers, a reflection of controversial plans to reopen a uranium mine in the area and build a tramway that would take visitors to a new restaurant and river walkways on the canyon floor. 蜿蜒穿过过大峡谷的科罗拉多河的延伸水域列在国家新发布的最危 险河流名单的最前面。这正是对于那些极具争议的开发计划有力的反映 。这些计划中要重开铀矿区 ，修建电车轨道以方便参观者参观新餐厅和 谷底走道。 The Colorado was among ten rivers that the environmental group American Rivers identified as facing imminent threats, in a list released on Tuesday. The rivers on the list aren’t necessarily the most imperiled or polluted, says Sinjin Eberle, the group’s associate director of communications for the Colorado River Basin. Rather, they are the ones that the advocacy group is urging the public to ask government agencies to protect in the coming months. 环保组织美国河流协会周二发布的名单上，科罗拉多河是10大面临 威胁的河流之一。协会负责科罗拉多河流域的副主任Sinjin Eberle讲到 ，在名单之列的河流并不一定是最危险或者污染最严重的，然而却一定 是倡导组织急于倡导大众寻求政府对策去保护的河流。 During the past several million years, the Colorado has sliced through layers of limestone, sandstone, and shale, creating a canyon in Arizona that is more than a mile deep in places. And although it’s still awe-inspiring and occasionally unpredictable, the river has been transformed by dams upstream that have altered its f