现代大学英语精读unit5课后手打答案_2222.docx

Unit5 1distributewealth 2.drillahole 3drivetheturbine 4refine/extractoil 5invitedisaster 6irrigateland 7squandermoney 8sustainriver  deltas  and  9sweepglobe 10drain/removesewage 11savewater 12conserveoil 13satisfythedemands/ meetthedemands 14harnessrivers lakes  and wetlands 无法知足的需求 2 不理智的补救办法 9浇灌区 3 地下水水位 10物质不灭定律／质量守恒 4 已经断流的河流 定律 5 饥荒，瘟疫及大规模移民 11 海水淡化 6 供给及需求 12 求过于供，超过需求 7 大澡盆，电淋浴及抽水马 13 濒危物种 桶 14冷却系统 8 作物品种 15 火电 3Replace 1becomingterriblyscarce,keepsquandering,invitingdisasters 2 areat alossaswhatto dowith,meetthe insatiable demands 3 desalinate, expensive, requires elaborate/sophisticatedapparatus 4famines,pestilence,sweeptheglobe 5overblown,remedies,ill-conceived,isboundto/issureorcertainto/isdestinedto 6routine,frequently 7induecourse/gradually,bringsupplyanddemandintoequilibrium 8perforated,aquifers,falling,glaciers,vanishing, 4Translate 1.StatisticsshowthatChinahasatotalamountof trillioncubicmetersofwaterresource,secondonly toBrazil,RussiaandCanada,rankingthefourth(to beupdated)intheworld.Butwhendividedby billion, our average per-capita shareof water resourceonlyamountstoaboutonequarterofthe world’saverag e. 2.Wehavealwaysbeenheavilyburdenwiththeproblem ofwatershortage.Itissaid thatthe 661largeand medium-sizedcities nationwide, about two-thirds are sufferingfromacuteshortageofwater.Beijingis agoodexampleinpoint .Itnotonlylackssurface water, evenits underground waterisdangerously low. Itisreportedtohavedroppedby90meters.Some scholarssuggestwemoveourcapitaltosomeother place. This is ofcourseunfeasible/ unrealistic, but themessageisclear. 3.Ourwater resources first of all are not evenly distributed in time or space.Theyare either too much, causingfloods,ortoolittle,causingdroughts. 4.In spite of theimpressive progress wehaveachieved in thepast years, wearestill far from effectively harnessingourrivers,lakes,andreservoirs.Soil erosion and desertification are increasingly threateningoureconomyandpeople ’slife.Manyof ourriversnolongerflowtothesea.In1998,t