穹顶之下英语时文阅读.docVIP

用方框内词或词组的正确形式填空 impress, lay out, upwards of, represent, be off to, reward, commit, range from… to…, float, be typical of, gain admission to, disgust, attach, consensus, make changes Former anchor Chai Jing, born in 1976, who 1 Central South University in 1992, has 2 herself to journalism. Now Chai Jing becomes a household name through her in-depth investigative reporting for China Central Television of national news stories 3 the SARS outbreak 3 Wenchuan earthquake. Having taken time off to have a daughter, she has now ended her self-imposed exile with a self-funded documentary about smog called Under The Dome（穹顶之下）. By popular 4 , viewers are 5 by terrible pictures of withered trees, murky（阴暗的）skies and rivers with 6 smells, but the film also 7 scientific evidence backed by data, field investigations at home and abroad and interviews with officials, scientists and the general public. Satellite pictures from NASA demonstrate worsening air quality in northern China over the past 10 years. Beijing had 8 170 polluted days in 2014, eclipsed（使…黯然失色）by neighboring Tianjin with 197 and Shijiazhuang with 264 days. Chai, again exhibiting her skills as a story teller, is 9 as an environmental pioneer, taking the examples of tearful babies battling pneumonia（肺炎）, caused by bad air and a woman in her 50s undergoing surgery at Beijing Cancer Hospital. The burning of coal and oil contributes to 60 percent of PM2.5 pollutants, or 10 particles（颗粒）smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter that penetrate the lungs, building the statistical background for her to question the country’s energy consumption habits, as well as calling on the public to 11 on their daily habits. To seek a precedent（先例）last year, Chai 12 to London and Los Angeles, two cities considered role models 13 the successful experience in cleaning once heavily polluted air, which have received great 14 for their effort. The docu