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Unit6 Where’s Your Recycling Box? Reading Part B The World Is Thirsty Lead-in Brain storming When we talk about water, what words and expressions will come to your mind? Water essential to life need water to survive… Water is a basic need. indispensable for different industries. three states: solid, liquid, and gas being polluted We’re short of it. Will you talk about the contributions that water has made to mankind and other lives? However, there is a severe shortage of water in the world now… Water scarcity is a worldwide issue nowadays. 2 billion The statistics show that there are now people face water shortage. 88% of diarrhea links to unsafe water, which brings 3-4 million deaths. The World Is Thirsty Reading: 1. Skimming: read the passage and find out what the percentages mean on each pie chart. 25% 75% Earth’s Surface 3% 97% Earth’s Water 75% of Earth’s Surface is covered by water. 97% of Earth’s Water is sea water. Only 3% of Earth’s Water is fresh water. 1.6% of Earth’s fresh water is in the form of icebergs and glaciers. 0.36% of Earth’s fresh water comes from underground. Only 0.036% of the fresh water comes from lakes and rivers. Some of the water has been seriously polluted. 2. Read passage B again and tick(√) true or false. ① People can use water from icebergs and glaciers directly. ② The small amount of fresh water on the earth is not enough for all of us right now. ③ Compared with industry, agriculture is more likely to be affected by a limited water supply. ④ One way to stop wasting water is to reuse it. F F F T Scanning not only … but also… be covered with in the form of even worse as things stand day by day only if have a bad effect on 不仅……而且…… 被……覆盖 以……的形式 更糟糕的是 照目前的形势 只有 对……产生不利影响 逐日 Fill in the blanks The world is _______ _______ hungry, _____ ______ thirsty for water. As we all know, nearly 75％ of the earth surface ______ ______ ______ water. But most of it is sea water, only a little part of it is