有关生态环境的英语阅读理解

❶ 有关雾霭英语阅读理解

环保英语阅读：北京雾霾天气凸显环境问题
2013-05-30 13:53来源： 巨人网·英语整理 作者： 佚名
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导语：今年北京春天长久的雾霾天气致使人们越来越关注环境问题、空气质量问题。更多的人意识到环境问题刻不容缓。下面是一篇关于北京雾霾天气的环保英语阅读，帮助大家学习英语。
Hundreds of planes were grounded in Beijing on Monday and several freeways temporarily closed because of heavy smog and poor weather conditions, underscoring the growing cost of Beijing’s chronic air pollution.
周一，由于浓重的雾霾和糟糕的天气条件，数百架飞机滞留北京，多条高速公路临时关闭，凸显出北京长期空气污染所造成的成本日益升高。
By Monday evening, nearly 500 flights out of Beijing had been cancelled or delayed e to weather, according to the Beijing International Airport. Monday’s weather in Beijing was cloudy with a light snow and pollution readings described as “hazardous” by the US embassy’s pollution monitoring system.
据北京首都国际机场(Beijing International Airport)称，至周一晚间，有近500个离京航班由于天气原因而取消或延迟。北京周一的天气为多云见小雪，美国大使馆的污染监测系统显示的污染级别为“危险”。
Pollution has been a growing concern for China, which is home to 21 of the world’s 100 most polluted cities, as environmental degradation inflicts an ever higher economic and social cost. This year has been marked by a series of protests over pollution concerns, the largest of which in Dalian attracted more than 10,000 people.
随着环境退化造成的经济和社会成本日益上升，污染已经成为越来越受中国关注的问题。全球污染最严重的100个城市中，21个在中国。尤其在今年，针对污染问题，发生了一系列的抗议，其中规模最大的大连抗议吸引了1万多人参加。
Smog is not uncommon in Beijing, however residents have grown increasingly vocal about air pollution in recent months because of a yawning discrepancy between Beijing’s official pollution data and the air pollution data published by the US embassy.
雾霾在北京并不罕见，但在最近几个月，由于北京官方污染数据与美国大使馆公布的空气污染数据存在惊人的差异，居民对空气污染发出了越来越强烈的质疑。
On Sunday, when heavy, acrid smog descended on Beijing, the municipal government described it as “light pollution,” although the US embassy’s data said it was off the charts. One reason for the difference is that Beijing monitors larger PM10 particles, while the US embassy monitors the small PM2.5 particles that are considered more dangerous to human health.
周日，北京突然笼罩在浓重、刺鼻的雾霾当中，市政府称之为“轻度污染”，尽管美国大使馆的数据表明污染指数已经“破表”。差异的一个原因是，北京方面监测的是较大的PM10颗粒(即粒径在10微米以下的颗粒物——译者注)，而美国大使馆监测的是更小的、被认为对人体健康更加有害的PM2.5颗粒。
Environmentalist Ma Jun says that the public has become increasingly sceptical of the official data.
环境保护主义者马军表示，公众对官方数据越来越持怀疑态度。
The health costs of China’s air pollution are also high. A 2007 study by the World Bank found that in China 350,000 people die prematurely each year from exposure to outdoor air pollution, with a further 300,000 premature deaths caused by indoor air pollution.
中国空气污染的健康成本也非常高。世界银行(World Bank) 2007年的一项研究发现，在中国，每年有35万人由于室外空气污染早亡，还有30万人由于室内空气污染早亡。
As China’s environmental problems mount, China’s leaders have described pollution as a “threat to growth,” but graal policy changes have yet to have a visible impact on reversing pollution trends.
随着中国环境问题的加剧，中国领导人已经称污染为一种“对增长的威胁”，但逐步的政策变化对扭转污染趋势尚未起到可见的作用。
China is in the process of revising air pollution monitoring guidelines and, e to increasing public pressure, announced last month that the new rules would require cities to monitor PM 2.5, the smaller, more dangerous particles.
中国正在修改空气污染监测指引，并且，由于公众压力日益加大，中国在上个月宣布，新规则将要求各城市监测更小、更有害的PM2.5颗粒。
In another nod to the public outcry, Beijing recently opened its air pollution monitoring centre for public visits, albeit only once a week.
在公众的质疑声中，北京方面还做出了另一项举动：最近向公众开放了空气污染监测中心，接受参观，但每周仅开放一次。

❷ 关于环境的英语短文

一）全球气候变暖
全球变暖
由于人口的增加和人类生产活动的规模越来越大，向大气释放的二氧化碳（CO2）、甲烷（CH4）、一氧化二氮（N2O）、氯氟碳化合物（CFC）、四氯化碳（CCl4）、一氧化碳（CO）等温室气体不断增加，导致大气的组成发生变化。大气质量受到影响，气候有逐渐变暖的趋势。 由于全球气候变暖，将会对全球产生各种不同的影响，较高的温度可使极地冰川融化，海平面每10年将升高6厘米，因而将使一些海岸地区被淹没。全球变暖也可能影响到降雨和大气环流的变化，使气候反常，易造成旱涝灾害，这些都可能导致生态系统发生变化和破坏，全球气候变化将对人类生活产生一系列重大影响。

（二）臭氧层的耗损与破坏
污染令全球气候变暖
工业污染
在离地球表面10~50千米的大气平流层中集中了地球上90%的臭氧气体，在离地面25千米处臭氧浓度最大，形成了厚度约为3毫米的臭氧集中层，称为臭氧层。它能吸收太阳的紫外线，以保护地球上的生命免遭过量紫外线的伤害，并将能量贮存在上层大气，起到调节气候的作用。但臭氧层是一个很脆弱的大气层，如果进入一些破坏臭氧的气体，它们就会和臭氧发生化学作用，臭氧层就会遭到破坏。 臭氧层被破坏，将使地面 受到紫外线辐射的强度增加，给地球上的生命带来很大的危害。
研究表明，紫外线辐射能破坏生物蛋白质和基因物质脱氧核糖核酸，造成细胞死亡；使人类皮肤癌发病率增高；伤害眼睛，导致白内障而使眼睛失明；抑制植物如大豆、瓜类、蔬菜等的生长，并穿透10米深的水层，杀死浮游生物和微生物，从而危及水中生物的食物链和自由氧的来源，影响生态平衡和水体的自净能力。
（三）生物多样性减少
50年后将有超过30％的物种灭绝
墨西哥等国科学家警告：氮污染威胁生物多样性
《生物多样性公约》指出，生物多样性“是指所有来源的形形色色的生物体，这些来源包括陆地、海洋和其他水生生态系统及其所构成的生态综合体；它包括物种内部、物种之间和生态系统的多样性。”在漫长的生物进化过程中会产生一些新的物种，同时，随着生态环境条件的变化，也会使一些物种消失。所以说，生物多样性是在不断变化的。 近百年来，由于人口的急剧增加和人类对资源的不合理开发，加之环境污染等原因，地球上的各种生物及其生态系统受到了极大的冲击，生物多样性也受到了很大的损害。
有关学者估计，世界上每年至少有5万种生物物种灭绝，平均每天灭绝的物种达140个，估计到21世纪初，全世界野生生物的损失可达其总数的15%~30%.在中国，由于人口增长和经济发展的压力，对生物资源的不合理利用和破坏，生物多样性所遭受的损失也非常严重，大约已有200个物种已经灭绝；估计约有5000种植物在近年内已处于濒危状态，这些约占中国高等植物总数的20%；大约还有398种脊椎动物也处在濒危状态，约占中国脊椎动物总数的7.7%左右。因此，保护和拯救生物多样性以及这些生物赖以生存的生活条件，同样是摆在我们面前的重要任务。
（四）酸雨蔓延
酸雨
酸雨是指大气降水中酸碱度（PH值）低于5.6的雨、雪或其他形式的降水。这是大气污染的一种表现。 酸雨对人类环境的影响是多方面的。酸雨降落到河流、湖泊中，会妨碍水中鱼、虾的成长，以致鱼虾减少或绝迹；酸雨还导致土壤酸化，破坏土壤的营养，使土壤贫脊化，危害植物的生长，造成作物减产，危害森林的生长。此外，酸雨还腐蚀建筑材料，有关资料说明，近十几年来，酸雨地区的一些古迹特别是石刻、石雕或铜塑像的损坏超过以往百年以上，甚至千年以上。 世界目前已有三大酸雨区。我国华南酸雨区是唯一尚未治理的。
（五）森林锐减
如果森林消失，我们还能留下什么
在今天的地球上，我们的绿色屏障——森林正以平均每年4000平方公里的速度消失。森林的减少使其涵养水源的功能受到破坏，造成了物种的减少和水土流失，对二氧化碳的吸收减少进而又加剧了温室效应。
（六）土地荒漠化
别再让干旱蔓延
全球陆地面积占60%，其中沙漠和沙漠化面积29%.每年有600万公顷的土地变成沙漠。经济损失每年423亿美元。全球共有干旱、半干旱土地50亿公顷，其中33亿遭到荒漠化威胁。致使每年有600万公顷的农田、900万公顷的牧区失去生产力。人类文明的摇篮底格里斯河、幼发拉底河流域，由沃土变成荒漠。中国的The Yellow River ——黄河，水土流失亦十分严重。
七）大气污染
如此环境如何生存
大气污染的主要因子为悬浮颗粒物、一氧化碳、臭氧、二氧化碳、氮氧化物、铅等。大气污染导致每年有30-70万人因烟尘污染提前死亡，2500万的儿童患慢性喉炎，400-700万的农村妇女儿童受害。
（八）水污染
如此水还是生命之源吗？
水是我们日常最需要，也上接触最多的物质之一，然而就是水如今也成了危险品。
（九）海洋污染
赤潮
人类活动使近海区的氮和磷增加50%-200%；过量营养物导致沿海藻类大量生长；波罗的海、北海、黑海、东中国海等出现赤潮。海洋污染导致赤潮频繁发生，破坏了红树林、珊瑚礁、海草，使近海鱼虾锐减，渔业损失惨重。

（十）危险性废物越境转移
危险性废物是指除放射性废物以外，具有化学活性或毒性、爆炸性、腐蚀性和其他对人类生存环境存在有害特性的废物。美国在资源保护与回收法中规定，所谓危险废物是指一种固体废物和几种固体的混合物，因其数量和浓度较高，可能造成或导致人类死亡率上升，或引起严重的难以治愈疾病或致残的废物。
One) global warming
The whole world changes warmly
Because the population increase and the humanity proce activethe scale to be more and more big, to the atmospheric release carbondioxide (CO2), the methane (CH4), the nitrous oxide (N2O), thechlorine fluorine hydrocarbon compounds (CFC), the carbontetrachloride (CCl4), the carbon monoxide (CO) and so on thegreenhouse gas unceasingly increases, causes atmospheric thecomposition to change. The mass of atmosphere comes under theinfluence, the climate has graally changes the warm tendency.Because the global warming, will be able to have each kind ofdifferent influence to the whole world, a higher temperature mightcause the polar glacier to melt, the sea level every 10 years willelevate 6 centimeters, thus will cause some coastal areas to submerge.The whole world changes warmly also possibly affects to rains with theatmospheric circulation change, causes the climate unusual, is easy tocreate the dry waterlogged disaster, these all possibly cause theecosystem to occur changes and destroys, the whole world climaticchange will live to the humanity has a series of significantinfluences.

(2) ozone layer consuming with destruction
Pollution make global warming
Instry pollution
In left earth's surface 10~50 kilometer isothermal layer of theatmosphere center to concentrate on the Earth 90% ozone gas, wasleaving the ground 25 kilometers place ozone densities most to be big,has formed thickness approximately is 3 millimeters ozone collectionsintermediate deck, was called the ozone layer. It can absorb solar theultraviolet ray, protects on the Earth the life to avoid the excessiveultraviolet ray the injury, and energy storing in the outeratmosphere, plays the adjustment climate role. But the ozone layer isa very frail atmosphere, if enters some destruction ozone the gas,they can have the chemical action with the ozone, the ozone layer canbe destructed. The ozone layer will be destroyed, will cause theground to receive the ultraviolet ray radiation the intensityincrease, will bring the very big harm for Earth's on life.
The research indicated that, the ultraviolet ray radiant energydestruction biology protein and the gene matter deoxyribonucleic acid,causes the cell death; Makes the human skin cancer disease incidencerate to advance; Injures the eye, causes the cataract to cause the eyeto lose one's sight; The suppression plants the thing-in-itselfsoybean, the melon class, the vegetables and so on the growth, andpenetrates 10 meter deep water level, kills the plankton and themicroorganism, thus endangers the water mesozoic food chain and thefree oxygen origin, affects the ecological equilibrium and the waterbody from only the ability.
(3) biodiversity rection
After 50 years will have surpass 30% species to exterminate
Country scientist and so on Mexico warned that, Nitrogenpollution threat biodiversity
"Biodiversity Joint pledge" pointed out that, the biodiversity"is refers to all origins the of all forms organism, these origins theecology complex compound which including the land, the sea and otheraquatic ecosystem and its constitutes; It including between speciesinterior, species and ecosystem multiplicity." Can have some newspecies in the long biological evolution process, simultaneously,along with ecological environment condition change, also can causesome species to vanish. Therefore, the biodiversity is unceasingly ischanging. 近百年来, because the population sharp growth and thehumanity not reasonably developed to the resources, adds reason and soon environmental pollution, on Earth's each living thing and its theecosystem is under the enormous impact, the biodiversity has alsoreceived the very big harm.
The concerned scholar estimated that, in the world every year at leasthas 50,000 living thing species to exterminate, equally every dayexterminates the species reach 140, estimated to the beginning of the21st century, the world wild biology loss may reach its total 15%~30%In China, as a result of the population growth and the economicaldevelopment pressure, not reasonably uses and the destruction to thebiological resources, the loss which the biodiversity suffersextremely is also serious, probably some 200 species alreadyexterminated; The estimate approximately had 5,000 kind of plants tobe at in the recent years is in imminent danger the condition, theseapproximately compose the Chinese higher plant total 20%; Probablyalso some 398 kind of vertebrate also occupies is in imminent dangerthe condition, approximately composes about China vertebrate total7.7%. Therefore, protects and saves the biodiversity as well as theseliving thing 赖以生存 living conditions, similarly is suspends infront of us the important task.
(4) acid rain spread
Acid rain
The acid rain is refers to in the atmospheric precipitationthe sour alkalinity (the PH value) to be lower than 5.6 rain, the snowor other forms precipitation. This is the air pollution one kind ofperformance. The acid rain to the human environment influence isvarious. The acid rain descends to in the rivers, the lake, can hinderin the water the fish, shrimp's growth, so that the fish and shrimpreces or vanishes; The acid rain also causes the soil acidification,the destruction soil nutrition, causes the soil poor keel, the harmplant's growth, creates the crops underproction, the harm forestgrowth. In addition, the acid rain also corrodes the buildingmaterial, the pertinent data explained, in the recent several years,acid rain area some historical sites specially were the carved stone,the stone carving or the copper cast damage surpass formerly above forhundred years, even above millennium. The world at present had threebig acid rains areas. Our country South China acid rain area is onlynot yet governs.
(5) forest sharp decline
If the forest vanishes, we also can leave behind any
On today Earth, our green barrier - forest 4,000 squarekilometers speeds is vanishing every year by the average. The forestrection causes its self-control water source the function to receivethe destruction, has created the species rection and soil erosion,reced to the carbon dioxide absorption then intensified thegreenhouse effect.
(6) land wilderness
Lets the arid spread don't again
The global land area accounts for 60%, desert and desert area29% Has 6 million hectares lands to turn the desert every year.Economic loss every year 42.3 billion US dollars. The whole worldaltogether has the drought, half arid land 5 billion hectares, 3.3billion encounters wilderness threat. Causes every year to have 6million hectares farmland, 9 million hectares pastoral areas loses theproctive forces. The human civilization cradle Tigris River, youngsends pulls the bottom river basin, turns wilderness by the fertilesoil. China's The Yellow the River - Yellow River, soil erosionextremely is also serious.
Seven) air pollution
How so does the environment survive
Air pollution main factor for suspended particle, carbonmonoxide, ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide compound, lead and soon. The air pollution causes every year to have 30-70 ten thousandpeople because the mist and st pollution to die ahead of time, 25million children contract the chronic laryngitis, 400-700 ten thousandrural women child suffers injury.
(8) water pollution
So water or source of the life?
The water is we daily most needs, also on contacts one of mostmaterial, however was the water also has become the dangerous materialnow.
(9) marine pollution
Red tide
The humanity moves causes the near sea area the nitrogen andthe phosphorus increases 50%-200%; The excessive nourishing substancecauses the coastal algae massive growths; Baltic Sea, North Sea, BlackSea, greater east Asian coprosperity sphere and so on appears the redtide. The marine pollution causes the red tide frequent occurrence,destroyed the mangrove forest, the coral reef, the seaweed, causes theoffshore fish and shrimp sharp decline, the fishery loss to beserious.

(10) risky waste border crossing shift
The risky waste is refers besides the radioactive waste, hasthe chemical activity or the toxicity, the explosivity, corrosivenessand other to the human survival environment existence harmfulcharacteristic waste. US stipulated in the resources conservation andthe absorption method that, the so-called dangerous waste is refers toone kind of solid waste and several kind of solid mixture, because itsquantity and the density are higher, possibly creates or causes thehuman mortality rate rise, either causes seriously cures the wastewith difficulty which the disease or cripples.

❸ 求一篇关于环境保护的高一英语阅读理解

A desert is a beautiful land of silence and space. The sun shines, the wind blows, and time and space seem endless. Nothing is soft. The sand and rocks are hard, and many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves. The size and location(分布) of the world’s deserts are always changing. Over millions of years, as climates change and mountains rise, new dry and wet areas develop. But within the last 100 yeas, deserts have been growing at a frightening speed. This is partly because of natural changes, but the greatest makers are humans.Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth. Algeria Mauritania is planting a similar wall around Nouakchott, the capital. Iran puts a thin covering of petroleum(石油) on sandy areas and plants trees. The oil keeps the water and small trees in the land, and men on motorcycles(摩托车) keep the sheep and goats away. The USSR and India are building long canals to bring water to desert areas.

1. In this passage, “” refers to ___.
A. small, thin pieces of steel. B. long, thinieces of branches.
C. small pointed growth on the stem(茎) of a plant. D. small, thin pieces of sticks.

2. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The greatest desert makers are humans. B. There aren’t any living things in the deserts.
C. Deserts have been growing quickly. D. The size of the deserts is always changing.

3. People in some countries are fighting a battle against __.
A. the growth of deserts B. the disappearance of desert plants
C. natural changes D. congenital climate

4. We can guess that Mauritania and Algeria belong to __.
A. Asian countries B. American countries

C. European counties D. African countries

【答案与解析】文章主要讲的是人们正采取措施控制和治理沙漠。

1. C。词汇猜测题。从instead of leaves可知needles是沙漠中植物的叶子，众所周知沙漠中植物的叶子是针状的, 再看steel(钢) 、) branches(树枝) 、stick(棒) 都不是与叶对应的物体, 只有C项(长在植物茎上的尖的小物体)是“是针状叶”的意思，故答案选C。

2. B。细节题。从many of the plants even have hard needles instead of leaves可知B项错误。

3. A。细节题。从Humans can make deserts, but humans can also prevent their growth(认为可能造成沙漠，但人类也可以防止沙漠的增长)可知答案A正确。

4. D。推断题。根据常识非洲沙漠远近闻名, 这说明那里最需要治理, 作者举例也会举典型的, 增加文章的可信度，故答案选D。

❹ 有关环境污染问题的英语小短文

Environmental Pollution
Write a passage with the words and phrases given:
the problem of pollution, cause, artificial substances, release, waste procts, instrial proction, consumption of goods, bring it under control, agriculture, chemical substancea.
Environmental Pollution
I read a piece of news recently. It says that in Japan marly businessmen ave selling fresh air to customers.and now it is becoming more and more popular. Why? --Fresh air is getting less and less in Japan, and so is it in the U. S. A.
In fact, environmental pollution is a very serious problem the whole world is facing.
it is mainly caused by the waste procts released from artificial substances, instrial
proction and increased consumption of goods. Bedsides, the use of chemical substances
in agriculture also causes environmental pollution. Look at the sky, you can see that dense smoke is being released from the high and big chimneys; those dirty and poisonous substances are flowing into the rivers that we use for drinking water and millions of tons of waste procts are heaping around us.
How to change this condition? More and more countries are trying to work out some effective means to bring it under control, but no great success has been made.
环境污染
最近我读了一则消息说在日本，许多商人向顾客出售新鲜空气，现在这种情况越演越烈。为什么呢? 因为在日本新鲜空气越来越少，在美国也是如此。
事实上，环境污染是整个世界正在面临的一个严重问题。这主要是由于人造物质，工业生产过程中所产生的废料以及消费商品的增长造成的。另外，在农业中使用化学物品也造成了环境污染。看看天空，你可以看到浓烟从高大的烟囱中释放出来，这些脏而有毒的物质流入我们赖以饮水的河流，数百万吨废物正堆积在我们周围。
怎样改变这种状况呢？越来越多的国家正在试图拟定出一些有效措施控制环境污染，但至今成效不大。

❺ 要有题目英语短文,带翻译,有关保护环境的

Today the quality of our natural environment has become an important issue. The world population is rising so quickly that the world has become too crowded. We are using up our natural resources and at the same time polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, life on earth cannot survive. Concerned people have made some progress in environmental protection. Governments of many countries have established laws to protect the air, forests and sea resources and to stop environmental pollution. Still more measures should be taken to solve environmental problems. People should be further ecated to recognize the importance of the problems, to use modern methods of birth control, to conserve(保存） our natural resources and recycle（再循环） our procts. We are sure that we can have a better and cleaner place in the future. 今天我们的自然环境的质量成为了一个重要问题。 世界人口那么迅速上升世界变得太拥挤。 我们用尽我们的自然资源和同时污染我们的与危险化学制品的环境。 如果我们继续做此，在地球上的生活不可能生存。 Concerned人取得了在环境保护的一些进步。 许多国家的政府建立法律保护空气、森林和海资源和停止环境污染。 应该采取Still更多措施解决环境问题。 人们应该进一步被教育认可问题的重要性，使用计划生育现代方法，保存(保存）我们的自然资源和回收（再循环）我们的产品。 我们肯定我们可以在将来有一个更好和更加干净的地方。

❻ 有关绿色环保的英语小短文

Environment(环境)
The environment is everything around us,for example,air,water,animals,plants,buildings and so on.They all affect us in many ways and are closely related to our lives.People can't live without the environment.Everybody needs to breathe air,drink water and eat food every day.We burn coal to keep warm,and we use wood to make paper.As a result,we become part of the environment.环境围绕在我们身边,例如:空气,水,动物,建筑等等.它们从各个方面影响着我们的生活,与我们的生活密切相关,人们离开环境就无法生存.每人每天都要呼吸,喝水和吃东西.我们烧煤取暖,用木材造纸.结果,我们也成为环境的一部分.
The environment has been getting worse and worse for many years.We have been upgrading our living standard,meanwhile the envirinment has been polluted.Smoke from factory chimneys pollutes the air.Machines and engines make noises that annoy us constantly.Animals are homeless because the forests are decreasing every minute.Streets are crowded with people and vehicles.The environment is the most important things,but it is becoming painful for us to live in it now.So it's time to solve those problems.很多年以来,环境日益恶化.我们在提高生活水平的同时,也在导致环境污染.从工厂烟囱里冒出的烟污染空气;机器和引擎经常发出恼人的噪音.因为森林每分钟都在减少,使动物们无家可归.街道上挤满了人和车辆.环境在我们生活中是最重要的.但是现在它已经让人们讨厌.所以该是解决这些问题的时候了.
Fortuantely,it isn't too late to correct our mistakes.People are coming to realize the importance of the environment.We have begun to try our best to improve it.Laws are being made dealing with air,water and noise pollution.The river will be bright,the sky will be clear,the flowers will be beautiful,and the sunbeam will be dazzling and pretty.We believe that we will be able to save our environment and live in a better world.幸运的是现在纠正错误还不晚.人们正意识到环境的重要性.我们已经开始尽全力改善环境.法律也开始涉及到空气,水和噪音等污染问题.将来,河流会更清澈,天空会更晴朗,花朵会更鲜艳,阳光会更灿烂,更温暖.保护环境会使我们生活在一个更加美好的世界中.

❼ 英语阅读理解

5.
答案是
A
因为一开始文章说了
Mabel
is
a
cashier(收银员)
in
a
big
shop
in
New
York.
Mabel
是一个收银员，所以她一方面收钱
（receives），另一方面也要给别人钱（pays
out
money）。
6.
答案是
D，一块钱，因为文章里说：
At
the
shop
people
can
also
buy
lottery
tickets
(彩票).
They
pay
one
dollar
for
a
lottery
ticket.
在店里，人们也可以买彩票。每一张彩票都是一块钱
（one
dollar）
7.
答案是
C，因为文章里说：
One
day
Mabel
was
working
at
the
shop.
She
sold
three
lottery
tickets
to
a
woman.
The
woman
looked
at
the
pictures
on
the
tickets.
Then
she
threw
the
tickets
on
the
counter
(柜台)
and
walked
away.
"These
are
losing
tickets,"
she
thought.
Mabel
picked
up
the
tickets
and
looked
at
them.
She
was
surprised.
Then
she
was
excited(兴奋的).
One
ticket
was
a
winning
ticket!
"Excuse
me!"
Mabel
called
to
the
woman.
"You
won
$50,000!"
有一天
Mabel
在店里工作。她卖了三张彩票给一个女人。那个女人看了下彩票上的图片，然后把三张彩票都丢在了柜台上，自己走掉了。那个女人心里想，这三张彩票肯定都不会中奖的。可是谁知
Mabel
把三张彩票拿起来看了下，突然惊讶地发现其中一张票中奖了！Mabel
把刚刚那个女人叫了回来，然后把那张中奖的彩票还给了她。
所以说答案是
Mabel
found
the
winning
ticket
and
gave
it
back
to
her.
Mabel
把中奖的彩票还给了那个女人。
8.
答案是
C
因为文章里
Mabel
说了：
"Of
course
I
wanted
the
money,"
Mabel
said.
"But
it
was
her
ticket.
It
wasn't
my
ticket."
虽然她想要那五万块钱，但她知道这不是她的彩票，所以这也不是她的钱。
大难则是
C：She
didn't
want
to
have
anything
that
was
not
hers.
她不想要不属于她的东西。
我解释的可能不是很清楚。。但希望对你有帮助
：）

❽ 有关环境保护的英语短文

The Environment and Big Business

Since the rise of environmental awareness, business and instry have always considered environmentalism a waste of time, only getting in the way of profits and proction. From the perspective of business, environmentalists push for regulations and restrictions on businesses which cost them more money and frequently restrict some of their practices. What business an the economy doesn't know is that they can actually save money by being environmentally responsible, while protecting the very resources they depend on . The protection of the environment not only has intrinsic value, but also economical value. Business and instry, can also benefit. These factors can lead to a newly developed economy that protects what it needs instead of destroying it. Despite historical differences between advocates of business and the environment, the fact is the two can and must utilize eachother for the future success of both.

It is important, in order for the economy to see the environment worth something, to put an economic value on it. For this reason, a group of scientists for the Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment have developed an economic valuation for the environment. According to them, it is necessary to impute a value to environmental goods or services (Pearce et al, online). This value is necessary because the economy needs to see that the protection of the environment can prove cost worthy to business and instry. The purpose of valuation is to show true costs of using up scarce environmental resources. It is a way for environmentalists and economists to put a dollar figure on the services the environment provides. Robert Costanza, an ecological economist from the University of Maryland, has done just this. The estimate of services provided by ecosystems worldwide is 33 trillion dollars annually, surpassing the gross national proct of al the countries on earth combined by eight trillion dollars (Zimmer 105). The environment provides services not only commercially, such as timber, but also in less visible ways. For instance, forests protect from soil erosion, which proves costly to correct. With these facts in mind, depleting ecosystems an resources proves costly, while protection them can only save money.

Business and the American economy has much to gain by altering their current practices. One prime example of how protection the environment can prove beneficial to a company is a program created by 3M called Pollution Prevention Pays. This program creates incentives to prevent hazardous and toxic wastes by changing processes, redesigning equipment, and recovering waste for reuse or recycling. Since the program was designed in 1975, 3M has been able to save over $537 million, while recing its air pollution by 10,000 tons, its wastewater by one billion gallons and its solid waste by 410,000 tons (Hawken 61). This is one example of a business making money fro preventative waste, while becoming environmentally responsible. While at the same time, not being environmentally responsible can cause businesses to lose money. The cost of cleaning up waste can be extremely expensive, while recing waste and recycling can prove worthwhile. From a surface view, it would appear that the American economy doesn't need to make any change to its current practices. After all, the U.S. is one of the wealthiest nations in the world. The problem rests in the foundation of the economy. America was founded on and flourishes because of its natural resources, most of them non-renewable. These resources, such as petroleum, natural gas an timber, will run out someday, it is inevitable. Research of programs to prevent this or to incorporate alternate forms of energy have barely been researched. Perhaps the reason for this is that actions that deplete lands an species are rewarded in the market, because they are less expensive, while actions that preserve them are not (Schuss and Western 329). It is much less expensive, for instance, to buy a car that is fueled by gasoline than to buy a car that runs on hydrogen, even though hydrogen is a renewable resource an proces barely any waste.

As Paul Hawken, an environmentalist and author of "Ecology of Commerce", explains, "the single most damaging aspect of the present economic system is that the expense of destroying the earth is largely absent fro prices set at the marketplace" (13). Market prices set for procts don't include the cost that future generations will have to pay to clean up the mess the current economy is fueling right now. An economy based on the rapid depletion of its own non-renewable resources is certainly destined for doom, while protection of these resources will save the businesses or corporations money while protecting what fuels it.