天津市高考英语阅读理解专题练习及答案.pdfVIP

天津市最新 高考英语 阅读理解专题练习及答案 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 If American waterways had ever been voted on the yearbook, the Buffalo River could easily have been named Ugliest. It could be hard to find hope there. It took decades for public perception of the river to shift. But activist citizens, who collaborated with industry, government, and environment groups never gave up on their polluted river —the Buffalo River gradually went from being considered a lost cause to a place worth fighting for. And by now the cleaned —up water is one of BuffaloS biggest attractions. By the 1960s, the river was seen as one of the worst sources of pollution pouring into the Great Lakes. The Buffalo River had caught fire many times. The surface had an oily layer, and any fish caught there were not eatable. The waterways fate started shifting in the mid-1960s. Stanley Spisiak was a local Polish— American jeweler by day, but by evening he was the kind of guy whod chase down dumpers( 垃 圾车 )he spotted on the Buffalo River. By 1966 he found himself winning the National Wildlife Federations Water Conservationist of the Year award. And before long he got a nickname: Mr. Buffalo River. But there was only so much he could do —the river was still declared biologically dead in 1969. Jill Spisiak Jedlicka is his great-grandniece. She picks up where he left off by directing the rivers protector organization, Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper. Professor Schneekloth and seven friends founded the organization as an all-volunteer nonprofit in 1989, after organizing the first river cleanup that year. Today the group employs 27 full-time workers and has helped oversee the Buffalo Rivers $100 million restoration. So far, the Buffalo Rivers water quality has restored, but it is still an ongoing issue, as sew