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新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第三册
Developing ideas
Activity 1
Facts about DDT:
DDT was first produced in 1874 and was later used as pesticide.
It stays in the environment.
It is highly poisonous to living organism, including humans.
Now banned in many countries, it is still used in some for malaria control.
Look at the infographic below and answer the questions.
Activity 1 Look at the infographic below and answer the questions.
1 How does DDT reach the human body in the food chain
When DDT is sprayed onto plants in order to kill insects, it is absorbed by the plants and subsequently consumed by animals; humans in turn eat those animals. DDT also leaks through the soil and into rivers and lakes, where it contaminates fish consumed by humans.
Activity 1 Look at the infographic below and answer the questions.
2 What harm does DDT cause
DDT is highly poisonous to living organism, including humans.
Activity 2
Read the book review on Silent Spring, a book that led to the
banning of DDT. Predict what will be mentioned in the passage.
Activity 2
Now read the passage and check your prediction.
It is a book review on Silent Spring, so the following parts may be mentioned this this passage:
1) basic information about the book, including the author, year of publication, theme and main idea; 2) the reason why this book is published; 3) features of the writing; 4) comments on this book; 5) influence of this book.
Activity 3
Organise information from the passage and complete the notes about Silent Spring.
1 1962
2 the damaging effects of human activity
3 more responsible, limited and carefully monitored
4 scientific information, examples and research
5 beautiful and elegant
6 The pesticide industry
7 defend her claims
8 The use of DDT
9 Presidential Medal of Freedom
10 environmental awareness
Now work in pairs. Talk about which aspects of the book review make you wantto read the book.
Think & Share
1 Why was Silent Spring so successful
Silent Spring was so successful because it alerted the general public to the dangers of DDT. It planted important new ideas in the public mind, such as that spraying chemicals to control insect populations has an impact on other wildlife, and that the chemicals got into the food chain.
2 What is the moral lesson behind “A Fable for Tomorrow”
The moral lesson is that financial profit should not come at the expense of the environment and the creatures living in it.
Think & Share
3 Why did some people challenge Carson’s findings
Some people challenged Carson’s findings because they were concerned about the negative impact they would have on business in the pesticide industry.
Think & Share
Think & Share
4 In what different ways do First Snow and Silent Spring raise people’s awareness of nature
First Snow shows the beauty of nature—and in particular the snow—through its words and imagery, while Silent Spring describes an unnatural spring without the beauty of birdsong. They each raise people’s awareness of nature by highlighting the interplay between nature and human behaviour.
新标准《英语》高中选择性必修第三册
1 There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example - where bad they gone Many people spoke of them, puzzled and disturbed. The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly: It was a spring without voices.
“一片古怪的寂静笼罩着这里。小鸟都飞到哪里去了 许多人淡论着,茫然困惑,惴惴不安。后院的饲养站已经鼓遗弃,为数不多的几只鸟也奄奄一息;它们浑身打战,无法飞翔。这是一个寂静的春天。
1 On the mornings that bad once throbbed with the dauwn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, turens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.
原本喧闹的情晨,再也没有了知更鸟,北美猫鸟,鸽子、松鸦、鹬鸡的奏鸣曲以及其他小鸟的鸣叫声;只留下一片寂静,笼罩在田野、树林和沼泽的上空。
2 Rachel Carson was a scientist by profession, but these lines from the opening chapter of her 1962 book Silent Spring,“A Fable for Tomorrow", show her talent as a writer. By imagining a world without birds, she aimed to alert not only the scientific community but also the general public to the damaging effects of human activity on natural ecosystems - in particular, to the harmful use of pesticides, such as DDT.
蕾切尔.卡森本是一位科学家,但是1962年,她在《寂静的春天》一书的开篇章节“明天的寓言”中的这段描写,展现了她作为作家的天赋。通过想象一个没有鸟儿的世界,她想要警告科学界,提醒公众,人类活动已经对自然界生态系统造成了破坏性的后果,尤其是使用DDT之类的杀虫剂给自然界带来了严重的危害。
2 She believed that the chemical industry was knowingly causing harm to plants, animals and even humans, and wished to see pesticides used in a more responsible, limited and carefully monitored way.
她认为化学工业正在明目张胆地对动植物,甚至对人类本身造成伤害,她希望人们在使用杀虫剂时能够更加负责、节制,并且严加监管。
3 Carson urged pcople to make themselves aware of the facts and do something about the situation. Silent Spring contains a lot of scientific research and case studies. The book details the gypsy moth eradication programme, which killed birds, in addition to gypsy moths. Another case study was the fire-ant programme that killed cows, but not fire ants.
卡森敦促人们认清事实,并且为此做出努力。《寂静的春天》中含有大量的科学研究和真实案例。在灭除舞毒蛾项目这一-案例中,她细致讲述了人们在消灭舞毒蛾的同时,也杀死了鸟类;另一个案例则是在开展消灭火蚁计划时,人们杀死的是奶牛,而非火蚁。
3The book also gives dozens of other examples of eradication programmes that did nothing to reduce the problems they were originally designed to solve. The 50 or so pages at the end of the book list Carson's sources, showing how thorough and precise she was as a scientist.
书中还讲了几十个其他灭除计划的案例,都未能像预期那样解决问题。这本书最后的五十几页列出了卡森的资料来源,显示出她作为一名科学家的周密和严谨。
4 Carson's message was very alarming, causing a great increase in environmental awareness. Its impact was immediate and far reaching: the use of DDT was banned and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in the US. Silent Spring was therefore regarded as a milestone in the launch of the green movement in the Western world. It also earned Carson a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom and put her face on the 17-cent US stamp.
卡森所述的事实让人们十分担忧,大大提升了人们保护环境的意识。这本书的效果立竿见影,并且影响深远:DDT被禁用;环境保护署也在美国成立。《寂静的春天》因此被视为西方发起绿色运动的里程碑,这使作者在去世后获得了“总统自由勋章”的荣誉,美国17美分的邮票上也印上了她的头像。
5 Silent Spring was not, however, received positively by everyone. Though Carson's research was strong and was supported by most scientists who reviewed her work, the book quickly became a target for critics in the pesticide industry. They said that Carson did not understand the science behind her arguments because she was a marine biologist rather than a chemist.
但并不是所有人都支持《寂静的春天》。虽然卡森的研究很有说服力,而且得到多数审阅过这本书的科学家的支持,但是这本书很快成为了杀虫剂行业批判的对象。他们说卡森并不理解她论证背后的科学原理,因为她是一位海洋生物学家,而非化学家。
5 Some also said that her work was more emotional than scientific. These were attempts to damage Carson's reputation and stop her work from influencing public policy, but she remained determined to stand by her research. Carson appeared in public and on television to defend her daims - and today, more than 50 years after it was published, the voice of Silent Spring is still ringing loud and clear.
还有一些人说她的作品过于情感化,科学性并不强。他们想要通过破坏卡森的名声来削减她的作品对公共政策的影响,但卡森仍然坚持自己的研究,在公众面前、在电视节目中捍卫自己的观点。时至今日,《寂静的春天》已经出版五十多年了,但它的影响力依旧深远绵长。
6 Personally, I enjoy Carson's book. She made a crucial but potentially difficult-to-understand subject interesting and accessible to millions of people. This is not so much because of the quality of her arguments, strong though they are, but because of the beauty and elegance of her writing.
而我个人也十分喜欢卡森的书。她把一个至关重要但十分复杂的问题用简单有趣的方式传达给了数百万人。这并不都是因为她书中高质量的论点是多么强有力,而是因为她美丽和高雅的文笔让读者喜欢。
6 Her book not only changed the world; half a century later it remains a book that deserves to be reread today, so that we can once again feel ourselves warm to the fire of its passionate message. For unless we do listen to Rachel Carson's warming, one day we may wake up to the strange and quiet horror of another silent spring.
她的书不仅在当时改变了世界,就是在半个世纪后的今天,它仍然值得人们重新阅读,以感受她充满感情的文字带给我们如火焰般的温暖。因为如果我们不听从卡森的劝告,可能有-天在我们醒来之后,真的会面对一个古怪而又相当恐怖的寂静的春天。