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Unit 1
P1 The Age of _____________(Major)
In most countries, _____________(turn) 18 ____________(标志着) the start of _____________(adult). But what does ________________(reach) this milestone, the age of majority, really mean Will you be__________
(complete) _________________(控制) your own life and able to express yourself _____ new and exciting ways What new_________________(responsible) will this_____________(free) bring Here, three young people tell us what turning 18 means, or meant, _____ them.
Bethany 16, Victoria, Australia
I can’t wait to be 18. One reason is_________ although I’ve been working ever since leaving school, I won’t be voting in the next general_____________(elect). Why Because I still won’t be old enough. __________(sure), if you’re old enough to earn a ____________(薪水) and__________________(交税), you should______________
(allow) to __________________(有发言权) on_______the government spends them! I’ve also been taking driving lessons, and in fact I will be taking my________________(驾驶考试) ______ the very day I turn 18. My mum worries about me being ______________________(驾驶，开车). ______ an ambulance driver, she’s seen a lot of car accidents_______________(involve) teenagers and thinks the legal age for getting a driving licence should be 21. But I think I’m already mature enough to understand that driving a car also means ________
____________________(对...负责) my life and the lives of other people
Lin Ning 19, Shanghai, China
I ________________(庆祝) my 18th birthday just before I went to university. I expected to feel____________
(instant) different, as if I had closed the door on my childhood and________________(踏进) a whole new adult world. But it wasn’t like that. When I woke up the next day, there_________(be) still rules to obey and lessons____
____________(参加). In fact, the change has been more_____________(微小) and gradual_________I imagined. Instead of being the selfish teenager I used to be, I have begun to feel more aware_______other people and to develop a_____________(strong) sense of____________________(社会责任).______________________(例如), I will be signing an___________________(器官捐赠)________________(agree) this time tomorrow. This was a big decision for me and I made it___________asking my parents (although I knew they would_____________(同意)). Turning 18 also changed the way____________society viewed me. I was really surprised when a bank contacted me with a ___________________(信用卡) offer. Of course. I would like to have more freedom with money and_________________(毫无疑问) I will be getting a credit card___________________(在某个时间), but I_______________(current) don’t have a steady income, so getting a credit card might tempt me to spend more money than I have.
Morgan 20, Florida, the US
People say that 18 marks a new_______________(篇章)in our lives, and that we should become more ________________(depend). I used to believe this, but the____________(real) for me has been very different. I ______________(认为) I’d already have a _______________(薪水不错的) job and that I’d be moving into a __________(rent) apartment as soon as I turned 18, but________wrong I was. My____________(library) salary means that I’ll be living at home__________my parents for a while longer. Because I contribute to the household ____________(账单) and my ____________(通勤) to work is quite expensive, I find________hard to save any money. I’ll be starting a new job next month, however, so maybe things will get easier. I know I could get a bank ___________(货款) to pay the ________________(订金) on my very own _______________(公寓), but I don’t feel ready to make that kind of______________(承诺), and I do like my mom’s cooking. I guess some responsibilities are ___________about attitude_________age.
P2 The Little Prince
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book,____________(call) True Stories from Nature, about the ___________________(原始森林). It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of__________
(吞) an animal. Here is a ____________(副本) of the drawing.
In the book it said:“Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without ____________(咀嚼) it. After that they are not able to move，and they sleep through the six months_________they need for_____________(digest).
I ______________(思考) deeply, then, over the_________________(奇遇) of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded______making m first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this. I showed my_______________(杰作) to the_______________(大人), and asked them ___________the drawing____________(令人害怕) them. But they answered: Frighten Why should anyone be frightened _______a hat ”
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor_______________(digest) an elephant. But ___________ the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it _____________(clear). They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this.
The grown-ups’ ______________(respond), this time, was______________(advise) me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside ______ the outside, and devote myself instead___ geography, history arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up__________might have been a magnificent career______ a painter. I ______________________(heart) by the ___________(fail) of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is ____________(tire) for children to be always and forever explaining things_______them
So then I chose another ______________(职业), and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world: and it is true that geography has been very useful to me._______a glance I can _____________ (分辨)China_________ Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is ______________(value).
In the____________(历程) of this life, I have had a great many ________________(ecount) with a great many people__________have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them_______________(intimate), close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my ______________(看法) of them.
____________I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, ___________I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, _________this was a person of true understanding. But, _____________ it was, he, or she, would always say: “That is a hat.”
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down________his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics and neckties. And the grown-up would be _______________(great) pleased to have met such a _____________(sense) man.
Unit 2
P1 Social Media Detox
Moderator
Today marks the last day of the Social Media ______________(排毒), Brenton High’s ____________(募集资金) campaign for new sports _______________(equip). At the start of the detox, over 100 students_____________
_______________(persuad) to stop____________(use) social media, in ANY ___________(形式), for seven days. This meant no messaging friends, no _______________(发布) photos, no blogging—nothing. They had been promised money by family and friends for each day spent without using _______________(社交媒体). They were nervous. But could they do it
With the detox_____________(finish), they’ve __________________(打开) their devices and they’re back online. I bet you’re as eager as I am to find out just ________ __________ have been motivated enough to last the full seven days! And what, if anything, have been learnt from the experience
Anna 17
I ______________(持续) two days. The detox was more difficult_______________(tolerate)__________I had expected. I felt like I had lost an arm! Not eating for two days would have been easier! Bu___________________(反思), I can see how much of my time _____________________(occupy) with checking my phone. I’m now trying to spend________(little) time online and more time___________________(捡起；学会) my hobbies.
Devon 16
I lasted four days. On Monday, our classmate and I spoke about__________we did at the weekend—it felt strange not to already know what he had done. We would have posted pictures and______________(更新) our profiles. Doing the detox ___________(mean) we had to talk and explain what we were doing and thinking! It made me realise the value of real ____________(联系) that I had forgotten.
Cindy 18
I _______________(成功完成) the whole week! At first, I really felt I was missing out. Then, ____________
(与... 相反) messaging my friend, I went around to her house. Without our phones, we had a proper conversation for over two hours. Without____________________(distract) by messages from other people, it felt so good! Then I decided to visit a different friend every day. By the ___________(five) day, I wondered—was I really missing out by not ______________(constant) checking my phone to see what everyone else was____________(忙于)
Gorge 16
I did all seven days, too! _____________________(说实话), I didn’t find the detox too difficult, but I did give my phone to my father to avoid ____________(give) in! My brother thought I should _______________________
(充分利用) the time without my phone; so he took me to _________________(检查) our local sports centre. An hour’s sport each day left me __________________(筋疲力尽) and sent me early ________ bed. The detox made me_____________ (healthy)!
Max 17
I’m embarrassed_____________(say) that I _________________________(放弃；认输) on the first day! I knew there was a party ________________(happen) that evening, but ________________________(不能接触) social media I couldn’t remember where it was! In the end, I_________________(打开) my phone to check, but couldn’t resist __________________________(快速浏览) my social media_________________(账户). ________
_____________(更糟糕的是), I then spent so much time _____________________(得到消息；弥补) news, I almost missed the party.
Moderator
The detox raised ____________________(总共，总计) $1,632.82 for new school sports equipment! _______
___________(干得好), everyone who took part! After reading the ____________(帖子) on this forum, it seems that something ________________(除了) money has also been raised through the detox. ______________(aware)
of just how much we_______________(依赖) social media can help us _____________________(远离) it and communicate with each other better.
P2 Valuable Values
The _____________________(消费能力) of young people varies__________person_______person. Each, however, __________________(面临) the same question: what _________________(处理) the money Some handle this______________(little) well than others. Recent________________(头条新闻) __________________
(see) more and more teens _________________(花光；刷爆) their parents’ credit cards on games and other online activities.
____________________(与...相比；相反) these big spenders, there are also teens __________ prove age is _______________________(对...不是障碍) __________________________(充分利用) money. _________ the help of her grandfather, eight-year-old Khloe Thompson started making “Kare Bags” for the_____________(home)
people in her district. Inside the bags__________(be) ________________(necessary) such as toothpaste, soap and socks, _______________(buy) first with her ___________________(零花钱) and then through _______________
(众筹). These items helped to make the lives of the poor and homeless people a little bit __________(easy). _____ receiving a Kare bag, one woman said, “You make me feel like a human being.”
However people intend ____________(use) their money, ________________(manage) it seems to be unprecedentedly important to _________________________(年轻一代). A 2016 study said 17 states of the US _____________(要求) high school students to take course in______________ (person) finance. For those _______
have no access_______courses, help might be__________________(在手边) thanks to Jerry Witkovsky and his method__________using four jars to teach teenagers how_______________(spend) their money _________(wise).
When Jerry’s grandchildren _____________(turn) 13, his present to each of them were three jars: one_______ spending, one for saving, and another for giving—he has since added a____________(four) jar for_____________
(投资). It was from then on ________his grandchildren started to be_________________(控制，掌握) what to do __________the money they receive: spend, save, invest, or give Jerry’s birthday______________(礼物)to his grandparents is, however, much more____________money and a few jars—he is giving them an_______________
(机会) to learn _____________________(终身价值).
The value______________(teach) with the Spending jar is____________you are responsible________ your own happiness. Money gives you__________________(independent) and the opportunity to buy something you like. _________________(毕竟), it’s OK to be nice to yourself!
While spending jar is about___________________(此时此刻), the saving jar gives you a_____________(愿景)for future. This could_______________(包括，涉及) saving for university, but it could also mean saving for that special something you’ve seen in the stores— it’s_____________(决于) you.
The Investing jar not only________________(代表) a vision for the the future, _________ gives the opportunity to build for the future. Although this could likewise involve_________________________(存钱) for your university education, it also means investing ______ yourself.
The Giving jar is all about _______________(kind) and helping. ________________you want to help out a friend, give money to an animal _______________(慈善机构) or to children in another country, it’s your money to give to whatever cause you believe in.
The_____________ (wide) aim of the jars is__________________(encourage) teenagers to think more _________________(objective) about money and the things___________ it can do, so that they grow up understanding, if you like, the value of the valuable. In this way, they will be better ______________(equip) in their adult lives to make ______________(inform) choices about how they use the money they have. ___________,
(事实上) the small change _________their jars could mean a big change in___________they manage their money.
Unit 3
P1 A New Chapter
The day I heard that the Rainbow Bookstore was closing____________50 years of business, I was _________
(心碎). The bookstore, ____________ was a______________ (legend) fixture in the neighbourhood, was a place ____________ anyone could________________(拜访) and connect through their love of books.
When I ____________________(匆匆赶到) the store, I saw that the books were already_______________ (pack) into boxes. I _______________________(聊了很久) Casey, the stores ___________(elder) owner. ______________(Sigh) deeply, he told me how becoming difficult to run an _______________(独立) bookstore. Most people _____________(prefer) reading ____________(电子书) on tablets. More and more customers were being attracted by___________________(连锁店) and online _____________(折扣). I tried to think of some words of ___________________(同情), but I had to admit that the Rainbow Bookstore couldn’t stay in business much longer.
Childhood memories ________________________(浮现在我的脑海里) so clearly,___________(好像)the events had happened only yesterday. __________________(一群) us kids would ______________(frequent)_____
_________(顺路拜访) the store after school. We’d look at the new books, or just chat with Old Casey. He knew every book in the store and would always___________(挑选)the perfect one _______ us ______a __________(dust) shelf. We spent hours reading, ___________(seat) on the stores old________comfortable furniture. Casey encouraged us ___________(share) our ideas and comments________ the books,_______writing them on a large board in one corner of the store.
When I left the bookstore, it was becoming cold and dark outside. I turned ____________________(挥手告别) to Casey, but ______ he and his bookstore were already _________(hide) in a thick mist. It made me realise that the bookstore and all _______ Old Casey had given_______ the community could soon disappear _____________(永远).
A few months later, I was back in the neighbourhood during my ________________________(春假) and was surprised __________(see) that the Rainbow Bookstore was still there and open for business. Its old brick exterior hadn’t changed but inside it was __________a different world. In one area, a book reading was being delivered. Nearby, customers ________________(pore) over ____________(shelf) selling stationery, posters and other ________________________(畅销主题) gifts. The large board in the corner ____________________(replace) by a big screen, _______________ customers’ comments_______the month’s best-seller were being displayed. _____________(clear), the Rainbow Bookstore was ______ good, _______________(create) hands.
I _______________(tell) that the community had decided to work together______a campaign_________(save) the Rainbow Bookstore. The campaign had been led _______ Jennifer Oakley, a saleswoman ________ had grown up the neighbourhood and who ________ now _________________(接手) the bookstore from Case.
____________Jennifer’s leadership, the bookstore was being turned into a place for literature-loving members of the community to get together. It had a cafe _____________(sell) ______________(有机) food, and there ______(be) now more community events such as _____________________(读书会), poetry recitals and even jazz concerts and movie nights, _________ people could gather to share an experience that couldn’t ________________(download).
I Joined Casey, who was looking up at the screen______ which readers comments kept ____________(pop) up. “Well, as you can see,corporate knowledge ________________(与...联合)_________________(create) has brought my________________(简陋的)bookstore _________ the 2lst century! I’m so pleased to see that everything I wanted it to offer_______ the community is still here.”
P2 Emojis: a new language
While ______________(wait) outside the cafeteria, I received the ______________(以下的) message ________ my friend.
It __________(take) me a minute before I realised _______ it meant. The signs he used ________(be) to say that he’d be running late and _____________(be) there soon. _____________________(相反，而不是)replying________a simple “OK, don’t rush” , I ___________________(搜索) emojis on my phone that would express the same Message:
This was my attempt_______________(follow) the _____________(潮流) of communicating with emojis. Emojis are used everywhere, from text messages ______ emails, blogs and other social media networks. _________________________________________(随着社交媒体的飞速发展), emojis are becoming an integral component of the language we use to express ourselves.
The word “emoji” comes from Japanese, ____________(literal)_____________(mean) “picture character”. Emojis are small symbols _______________(represent) ideas emotions or feelings. They come in different categories, such as faces and people, plants and animals, and food and drink “Emoji”.
When first ________________(introduce) ______Japan in 1999, emojis _______________(limit) to 176 simple designs. Now there _________(be) more than 3, 000 emojis _________ expand upon the way___ _______ we communicate. _____________(由于) their _______________(popular), the Oxford Dictionaries ________________________(年度词汇) in 2015 was for the __________(one) time ever, a pictograph instead of a traditional word.
______________________(在当今世界), emojis have become more and more popular. ______________ (似乎)emojis have clear ________________(优势) _________ ______________(write) language. People like them because they add _______________(emotion) meaning, and are quick and easy to use. In fact, this is similar ________the gestures we use when we speak. ____________a smiling or sad face ____________(add) to a message or post, your reader can “see” your _________________(面部表情) while _____________(read) your words. Emojis can also help people ___________(表达) their feelings when they cannot find the appropriate words. ____________________(举例), if your friend is moving across the country, you may just send them a string of ___________(cry) faces______________(express) your _________(sad) over your _______________(separate).
The use _____ emojis has even spread to ____________(经典) literature. A Shakespeare __________(系列) ______young readers has taken William Shakespeare’s popular plays and replaced some words _______ textspeak and emojis. The ____________(目的) of these adaptations is______________(make) the classics more accessible _______ young readers. Some people, however, believe that these new versions have taken away the heart and soul of Shakespeare’s plays.
As we can see, emojis ____________________(有…的趋势) to pop up all over the place. Users of emojis say that they facilitate the way_____ __________ we communicate and express ourselves. But this makes others especially educators, worry that we are losing the ability______________(communicate) properly ___________(use) the ___________(write) word, or even the ____________(speak) word. _____________(毕竟), how many of us today would rather send a message _____________(pack) with emojis ________ make a telephone call Perhaps people will one day choose to communicate in pictures and forget_______to write properly. On that day, emojis will have become a real pictorial"language". But, for now, maybe it’s best that we just enjoy using them.
Unit 4
P1 MY 100 DAYS WITH MSF
22 March 2015
Today we celebrate. It’s ____________(exact) one month since the last ____________(report) case. But it is ____________(重要的) not to take any chances. So, 20 health care workers from almost as many countries, comrades in arms, raise _____________(虚拟的) glasses_______ each other.
I arrived_________Liberia with MSF almost three months ago. When I saw the _________________(凄惨的画面) on the news, I felt it was my duty_____a doctor to go there and __________(提供)my help. I knew I was __________________________(冒生命危险). but I thought, if I don’t do it, who will It is important to remember that Ebola doesn’t respect national ________________(国界). There_______(be) no borders for doctors, for patients or for anyone else_______________ (involve)______ combating this terrible disease.
My mission was______________(relieve) Emma, a ______________(Canada)______________(special)____
infectious diseases ______the end of her posting. Emma spent an hour with me in the staff room _______(talk) me ____________the daily routine. As she talked, I could hear at least three different languages ___________(speak) at the tables around us. __________(late), Emma introduced me_____ some of the others working for or alongside
MSF: Wilton, ___young local man,_______ helped carry the very sick into the ____________(treat) clinic and who ______________(消毒) clothing and surfaces; Maisy, a ____________(retire) public health official from Darwin, Australia, ____________ local team of volunteers educated people___ preventing _____________(infect); Alfonso, a soft-spoken Argentinian doctor _____ his 50s, who had ____________(previous) worked on Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea. The list went on. I found that I was the only Chinese doctor ________people of all ages, colours and_____________(信仰) , from every continent except Antarctica. With each person I met, I felt a ____________(grow) _______________________(自豪感) as part of this extraordinary team, _______ devotion _____the cause shone from their eyes
In the few weeks since then, I _______________(come) to know these people very well. We have worked together, _______________(surround) by blood vomit and death. But, ___________ the ____________(死亡率) is very high, we will never give up _____ a patient, and our efforts do sometimes end ____miracles
Just after my _____________(arrive), ___________________(一家六口) _______________(bring) here in the back of a van. All of them were infected. The twin girls and their parents soon died. We knew there was little hope _____ the brothers but we did everything we could___________(save) them. When we visited the ward the next morning, we were amazed _________(see) that _____________________(尽管困难重重；概率极低), ______ boys were still alive. Pascal and Daniel have since made a full _____________(recover). This small but ________________(expect) success ___________________(弥补)many other ___________(little) fortunate cases.
___________________(catch) up in such a crisis creates____________(power) _____________(连接，羁绊) between people, not only between ___________(care) and patients, _____also between all those ______have come from different parts of the world and joined together _________________________(因为共同事业). It is so _______________(令人鼓舞的) to have colleagues_____ Wilton, Maisy, and Alfonso,_______________(更别提)
all the others I have worked _________.
Now my time is almost _____(结束). In a few days, someone else will arrive to step into my shoes, and the ___________(tire) work that the MSF members do in more than 70 countries and ____________(地区) around the world _________(go) on. In a world still _____________(face) so many problems, it is ___________(absolute) essential ____ us all to collaborate__________(create) a________________________(“地球村”) with a _____________(share) future of peace and _______________(繁荣).
P2 The Words ________ Changed A Nation
______ a grey afternoon on 19 November 1863, a tall, thin man mounted a______________(讲台) in a field in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and began to speak. The place was the site of a recent battle _________ thousands of soldiers had died. The man was Abraham Lincoln President of the United States of America and he was there ____________________(纪念) the soldiers who had died. The speech he gave was just 268 words long and _____
(last) two minutes. But this ______________(演说) to the crowd changed the minds of his people and helped __________(塑造) a nation.
At that time, America was__________ (bitter) divided. For two years, ______(it) people had been deep in a __________________(内战) between the slave-owning Confederate Southern States _______the “free” Northern States of the Union. The ____________(bad) battle lasted three days and __________________(发生) at Gettysburg in 1863. The Union side won but ____________________(代价惨重). Over 50, 000 soldiers were killed or _______________(wound), and people lost hope and _______________(目标). What was all this _________________苦难() for
Lincoln understood the feelings of the civilian people. Hi speech gave them hope, _____________(信念) and a reason to look to the future. He gave them _____________________(新的愿景) of _______ the United States of America should be, ___________(base) on the ideals ___________(set) down by its Founding Fathers 87 years before. It was _______the soldiers had died for. Now it was ___________(取决于，依靠) the ____________(live) to remove not only the _____________(divide) between North and South, ____________the boundaries between black and white and work __________________(一步一步,逐渐地) towards the _____________(equal) of humankind.
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
_______________________________(87年前) our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated__________the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we ________________(engage) in a great civil war, ___________(test) whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it ______ a final resting place for those ______ here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But_______________________(从更广泛意义上来说), we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow this ground. The brave men,living and dead, who ________________(抗争) here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget _______ they did here. It is for us, the living rather to be dedicated here to the _______________
(未完成的) work which they have, thus far, so ____________(noble) carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion -that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died _____________(徒劳): that this nation shall have a new birth of ______________(free); and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Unit 5
P1 MACQUARIE ISLAND: from ___________(混乱) to _________________(保护)
I am standing on Macquarie Island, in the South-west Pacific Ocean, halfway between Australia and Antarctica. Strong winds and ______________(storm) seas have helped ______________(雕刻雕塑) its long, thin shape. The green grass and bare rock of its landscape ___________________(反差巨大), giving______ a wild and natural beauty. No visitor would think _______ surprising that the island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Nor would they fail_______________(imagine) how its __________________(当地动物) including royal penguins, king penguins, and elephant seals existed _____________________(与......完美地和谐共存) their natural habitat for thousands of years.
But the islands more recent history tells a different story. It a tragic story _______ began in 1810_______ humans arrived on the island. In their ships they ______________(unknowing) brought rats and mice.These small animals quickly_______________(占领) the island, ____________(eat) the birds’ eggs and ____________(attack) baby birds. Cats _______________(bring) to the island to control the rats and mice. _______________(不幸的是), the cats ______________(subsequent) developed an appetite _____ the birds, too.
______________(与此同时) rabbits ________________(被引进) to the island ____a source of food for humans. Loose on the island, they did what rabbits do best—they multiplied ____________(rapid) and began eating the native vegetation and ____________(dig) holes, _________ caused soil erosion. The _______________
(explod) rabbit _______________(数量) provided ______________(充足) food for the cats,meaning that the number of cats also increased. This ______________(返过来) led to more cats hunting the birds. The end result was that parakeets once ______________________(数量众多) and native ____the island,____________(灭绝)in 1891.
Even after Macquarie Island became an __________________________(官方自然保护区) in the 1970s, the rabbits remained ______________________(不受控制). Experts felt _____ necessary_______________________
(想出) a plan to remove all the rabbits_________ the island. __________________________(怀着这个目标), a virus _________________(release) onto the island. But ______________ the virus caused the rabbit population ________________(decrease) from 130,000_______ around 10,000, it also meant________________(little) food for the cats. The cats ___________________(因此) turned their attention-and their stomachs -back to the native birds, _____________(kill) up to 60,000 each year. In the 1980s traps and dogs___________(use) to catch the cats. The last Macquarie Island cat___________(catch) in 2000.
But ____________________________(正如俗语所说), "While the cat’s away, the mice will play. " With the _____________(depart) of the cats from the island, the mouse and rat population started to increase. And remember those 10,000 or so rabbits ____________________(结果是，最终) they developed an immunity ______ the virus, and their numbers______________(激增) once again.Then, in 2006, the rabbits digging caused some land to collapse and killed _____________________________(大量的) penguins. This incident _______________
(说清楚) that the rat, mouse and rabbit problem needed _______________(solve) _____________________(彻底).
So, I am here on Macquarie Island ______________________(参与) the programme to tackle this very problem. The _________________(one) step involved poison being dropped from helicopters. The next step is _______________(remove) the last remaining invading species, and that’s where I come in—with my dogs. They have been trained _____________ (find) every last one, without harming the native animals. This intervention is a long, much-delayed ending ______ a sad story, but we ______________(human)___________(亏欠) it to the island to give it a happy ending.
Postscript: In 2014, Macquarie Island __________________(declare) _______________(无有害生物) and the island’s ecology is finally ____________________________(走上恢复之路).
P2 WHY SHIENNONGJIA
Good morning, everyone. _________________________________________________(我很开心在这里发表演讲)_________________________(代表) the Be at One with Nature __________________(Associate).
_____________________（众所周知）, in 2016, Shennongjia made_____ onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. But there are so many important places not yet on this list. So you might ask: why Shennongjia Is it its forests_________ stretch on and on like great green seas Is it the _______________(legend) father of Chinese ____________________(草药) Shennong, after ____________the park is named Or is it the ______________
(mystery) creature ____________(call) Yeren(wild man )that has captured the imagination of the world.
UNESCO awarded Shennongjia this status because it ____________(满足) two criteria required by the list. It contains a _______________(natural)-balanced environment that allows the many and various species to live and _______________(繁衍). It is also one of the rare locations in the world __________ scientists can observe______
___________(实时) the ______________(ecology) and biological processes___________ occur as the plants and animals develop and evolve.
For the first criterion, Shennongjia is _____________(apparent) one of “the most complete” natural areas in the world. The region rises from about 400 metres______ over 3,000 metres above_____________(海平面), _____ (give) it the name the ____________________________(华中屋脊). The vast range in altitude________________
(导致) a great _________________(变化) in climatic conditions. This allows_______________________(各种各样的) species to thrive. Some of the plants and animals have survived millions of years, and _________________ (被当做) ____________(live) fossils.
For the _____________(two) criterion, we can see that Shennongjia has incredible ______________(生物多样性). Look at this slide. According to official statistics, over 3,000 plant species have been recorded there. This _______________(占) more than ten per cent of China’s total floral _____________(rich). Shennongjia supports more than 600 vertebrate species _____________(include) the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey and the Clouded Leopard. ________________(addition), around 4, 300 insect species _____________________(record).
It is a challenge _______________(look after) so many species. In winter, scientists ____________________ ____________________(不畏暴雪和严寒) to ________________(供给) food to the Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. __________________(多亏了) their efforts the monkey’s population__________________(double) since the 1980s. Their number reached over 1,300 in 2015 and continues to grow.
But the__________________(impress) aspect of Shennongjia is the local people, __________take things from nature___________causing damage. I visited a local village which is known for its _______________(自制的) honey.____________ is special about the honey is that it __________________(produce) by the earliest species of Chinese bee. Every spring, the villagers_____________(放置) beehives around their houses to attract these wild bees from the forest. Although _______________(endanger) elsewhere in China _____________(由于，因为) the _______________(invade) of _____________________(外来物种), the bees of Shennongjia have coexisted __________ the local people for centuries. By providing the bees ____________ a secure home, the villagers collect their honey in return. This is just one of the ways ____________ people of Shennongjia live and work___________________________(与自然和谐相处).
All of this ________________(explain) why Shennongjia earned—and ____________(值得)—its place on the UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as ______________(highlight) how understanding, ___________(aware) and hard work have _______________(促进) towards protecting a unique and wonderful part of our natural world
Thank you for listening. Now, does anyone have any questions
Unit 6
P1 The Wild Within
The crime________________(发生) in a ____________________(海滨郊区) of Cape Town.__________
(spot) the car with its window____________(leave) open, the __________(greed) thief didn’t hesitate.______
___________(几秒之内), he had _________________(手伸进车窗) and run away with a bag of shopping. No matter ________ many crimes he committed, the police were____________(power) to arrest him. You see this was no ordinary criminal, it was a chacma baboon. Once almost__________________(闻所未闻), scenes like this one in Cape Town are now common all over the world. With foxes in London, mountain lions in San Francisco and wild pigs in Hong Kong: it is almost as if our cities are being_____________(占领)by wild animals
People often wonder ________ the reasons behind this mass urban____________(migrate). Most of us would_____________(认为) that urban development and_______________(气候变化) are responsible _____ pushing the animals out of their__________________(自然栖息地). ______________ true this is, we also need to consider that some of these________________(所谓的) “urban animals” have never moved at all—it’s we humans__________ have moved into their territory. Wherever they go, animals find towns and cities in their way. ________ nowhere else to make their homes, they _____________________________(别无选择只能) move in with us.
Yet, for its newest and wildest___________(居民), a city can offer man benefits. ________our cities become greener, they offer________________(increase) appealing spaces_______animals_________(look) for new habitats. ________________(远离；够不着) from many of their natural___________(天敌), these newcomers often ___________(繁荣；茁壮生长) in their new city lives. Today, foxes can____________(see)
all over London—one even being found living on the 72nd floor of the Shard building when it was _________ ______________(在建)! What’s more, hungry animals are finding plenty to eat in our gardens and in the
_________(剩余物；吃剩的食物) we throw away.
One thing______________(对...关键) the______________(increase) number of "urban animals" is their ability____________(adapt). There is evidence__________urban racoons are more intelligent________their wild cousins,______they_____________(frequent) have to_______________(弄清，查明) difficult problems such as how________(open)________________(垃圾桶) and other containers__________they would not find in the wild. Some animals have even changed their __________________(生活习惯)_______(fit) in with their new homes. Although_______________(natural) active at night, urban foxes come out in daylight_____the reward is good enough. Their city location also means that they are getting a taste for the_________________
(多元文化的)cuisine on offer from the garbage, such as hamburgers, lamb kebabs and even garlic bread!
_______those animals that don’t adapt, the city can be a dangerous or even_________(dead) place. Unable to_______________(分辨) between blue sky______glass, birds crash into windows__________ _______(以...的速度) about 30 miles__________(每小时). Recent studies____________(估计) that between 400 million and 1 billion birds die from window impacts each year in the US alone._____________(shock), these ____________(die) _____________(总计，达到) around ten per cent of the total US bird__________(数量). Some species are more affected_________ others. One theory behind this is that these birds have yet to change their migratory routes_________take them__________cities with high-rise buildings.
However they adapt________our ways of urban living, it’s important that we ______________________
(更好的理解)and even learn to appreciate our wild neighbors. ________________(只有到那时) can we look towards harmoniously sharing our urban habitats. ____________the reasons behind these species entering our cities, one thing is for sure—as it’s often a__________(方式，方法) of their _____________(survive), they could be with us to stay.
P2 Plan B: Life on ____________(火星)
In the 1960s and 1970s, the_______________(great) fear was that the human race, and___________(possible) all ___________________(高级生命)on the planet, could_____________(wipe) out by nuclear missiles, just ______________________(按下按钮). Today, however, ________________(environment) problems have taken over as the greatest risk to life on Earth. Scientists are thinking of ways___________(low) this risk, such as______
(取代) coal and oil__________forms of _________________(可再生能源). But they are also preparing______ the worst________can we do if the____________(terrify) scenes in films such as The Day After Tomorrow happen in real life What is our ____________(备选计划) for Earth
One ______________(选择) is ______________(explore) other planets to see _______ we could live on them. The ________________(likely) choice is Mars, which is _____________(relative) close______Earth and has an environment less hostile than_______of other planets. Mars_________________(fascinate) people since ancient times, and today our interest ______ Martain _____________(explore) is greater than ever before. Films such as The Martian _______________________________(受到全世界欢迎). More governments and________________
(organize) are making efforts ______________(educate) the public on the Red Planet, for example, the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert of the US and the Mars Village in North-west China’s Qinghai Province.
Since the 1960s, we have been sending___________________(无人飞船) to Mars. Our probes have orbited the planet, _____________(send) back valuable ____________(数据) and____________(stun) images. Our robots have explored the Martian surface, testing the soil and ___________________(寻找) resources, water and _______
______________(生命的迹象). _______________(encourage) by discoveries over the years, space agencies of various countries are planning manned missions_____Mars that could take place_______________________(在未来25年内).
__________________________________(毫无疑问) humankind _____________(draw) towards Mars, with dreams of making _____ our second home. However, ______________(send) people there will require all the skill, courage and ______________(intelligent) of the human race. While the moon can ___________(reach) within days, it would take months ____________(reach) Mars, travelling through dangerous solar radiation. And even if the first ___________(settle) do reach Mars safely they may not be able to return to Earth-ever. Staying alive will be a __________(day) challenge, but as ___________(prove) by the Biosphere 2 experiment, not impossible. _____________________________(早在20世纪80年代), scientists were building Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert. It __________________(包括) a ___________(close) space in which people, animals and plants could live together. “The closed” concept meant that the space was designed____________(function) with its own oxygen, food and water, needing nothing from the outside world. Although the two-year experiment was not ____ success, it did provide us ______ a better understanding of________humans might be able to live on another planet. More recently, scientists have succeeded _______ growing ________________(各种各样的) plants in an environment similar to _______ on Mars. That _____________(definite) is _______________________(向前的一大步).
For now, human settlement of Mars is still decades away. ___________________(同时), scientific research shows that the planet Earth is getting ____________(warm). This change is being caused by human activity and is having a terrible effect _________ the biosphere. Until we are finally able to live on another planet, we need to take much better care of our own. Right now, it’s _______ only one we have!