人教版英语必修第三册同步练习UNIT 3　Section Ⅳ.docVIP

UNIT 3　Section Ⅳ Ⅰ．阅读理解 When Barcelona’s citizens emerged from a six-week lockdown at the end of April last year，they found that while the city had lain inactive，nature had been busy transforming the streets and parks into a wilderness. “The parks were shut，so no gardening was carried out，” says Margarita Pares，who heads the city’s biodiversity programme. “It was spring and it rained a lot more than usual. The result was an explosion in plant growth. And there were many more butterflies，as they are a species that reacts very quickly to changes in the environment. ” Once the gardeners went back to work，the question was whether to return everything to its neat and tidy state，or let nature take its course？The answer is neither. Pares says the council spent the previous two years working on plans to “naturalise” or “rewild” the city—and was about to announce this change of policy when the pandemic struck. By the time the lockdown ended，it was a lot easier to sell rewilding to the public desiring fresh air and open space. When it comes to embracing nature in its cities，Spain falls behind many countries. But it is hoped that Barcelona’s new policy will go some way to correcting that. “In a city like Barcelona，it’s a case of replacing what exists with green infrastructure(基础建设)，” says Lorena Escuer who has worked in Barcelona on a pilot scheme called Alcorques Vivos，which plants wildflowers at the base of trees in the streets rather than surrounding them with pavement. “It’s not having a park surrounded by asphalt(沥青)but introducing nature into the city，” she says. “People need re-educating. Their idea of a clean space is where there’s no life and the ecosystem is dead. There’s this idea that nature is something outside and that what’s natural for the city is for there to be nothing. ” “Rewilding has made us look at how we live and how we want to live. There’s no going back from here. The lockdown gave us a glimpse of nature in the city and it surprised us，” says Margarita