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Unit 1 Water Resources 【学习内容】Text A Water Resources of China Text B Water Resources 【学习目标】1. 了解有关 的专业用语 2. 掌握构词法中的名词后缀 3. 学会现在分词和过去分词的使用 【学习策略】1. 英语阅读种类 2. 科技英语翻译 3. 标书写作 Text A Water Resources of China China is situated in the southeastern part of the Eurasian Continent. The distribution of precipitation and water resources in this country varies largely in both time and space due to the influence of the varied topographic features and monsoon climate. Thousands of years of struggle against drought and waterlogging has formed one important theme of the Chinese civilization. Since the foundation of the Peoples Republic of China, the government has attached great importance to water conservancy and has constructed a large number of water conservancy projects which contributed immensely to keeping 1 billion Chinese people away from famine: common floods thus effectively controlled, 47 million ha of cultivated land constantly irrigated and urban domestic and industrial demand of water, to some extent, roughly satisfied The total amount of water resources in China ranks sixth in the world. However, the amount of water resources per capita and per unit cultivated land is far less than the world average for the countrys dense population and vast territory. Furthermore, the distribution of these spare water resources is uneven both temporally and spatially and does not coordinate with the distribution of population, cultivated land, and mineral resources. As a consequence, water is often found such an inharmonious factor with economic development that would hardly leave a balanced demand-and-supply to any regions. The situation of less supply than demand grows more and more serious in the places short of water, like in North China and the southern part of Northeast China. For the vast Northwest, the restraint of poor water resources will certainly enable a lagging economy after it has been somewhat developed. As for the Yangtze Ri