现代大学英语精读(第二版)Unit 5 课后手打答案.docxVIP

Unit 51 distribute wealth 2. drill a hole3 drive the turbine4 refine/extract oil5 invite disaster6 irrigate land7 squander money8 sustain river deltas and wetlands1 无法满足的需求2 不明智的补救办法3 地下水水位4 已经断流的河流5 饥荒，瘟疫及大规模移民6 供应及需求7 大澡盆，电淋浴及抽水马桶8 作物品种9 sweep globe10 drain/remove sewage11 save water12 conserve oil13 satisfy the demands/ meet the demands14 harness rivers and lakes9 灌溉区10物质不灭定律／质量守恒定律11 海水淡化12 供不应求，超过需求13 濒危物种14冷却系统15 火电3 Replace1 becoming terribly scarce, keep squandering, inviting disasters2 are at a loss as what to do with, meet the insatiable demands3 desalinate, expensive, requires elaborate/sophisticated apparatus4 famines, pestilence, sweep the globe5 overblown, remedies, ill-conceived, is bound to/ is sure or certain to/ is destined to6 routine, frequently7 in due course/ gradually, bring supply and demand into equilibrium8 perforated, aquifers, falling, glaciers, vanishing,4 TranslateStatistics show that China has a total amount of 2.8 trillion cubic meters of water resource, second only to Brazil, Russia and Canada, ranking the fourth (to be updated) in the world. But when divided by 1.3 billion, our average per-capita share of water resource only amounts to about one quarter of the world’s average.We have always been heavily burden with the problem of water shortage. It is said that the 661 large and medium-sized cities nationwide, about two-thirds are suffering from acute shortage of water. Beijing is a good example in point. It not only lacks surface water, even its underground water is dangerously low. It is reported to have dropped by 90 meters. Some scholars suggest we move our capital to some other place. This is of course unfeasible/ unrealistic, but the message is clear.Our water resources first of all are not evenly distributed in time or space. They are either too much, causing floods, or too little, causing droughts.In spite of the impressive progress we have achieved in the past years, we are still far from effectively harnessing our rivers,