主题语境阅读:世界与环境主题习题高考英语备考.docx
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1、主题语境阅读:世界与环境主题习题 高考英语备考. 阅读理解素养视角:环境问题与经济活动The things we consume, from phones to cars to IKEA furniture, have costs that go well beyond their purchase price. What if the soybeans used to make that tofu you ate last night were grown in fields that were cut out of tropical rainforests? Or what if that
2、 T-shirt you bought came from an industrial area carved out of high - value habitat in Malaysia? Unless you buy sustainably sourced food or goods, it can be hard to know just how consumers purchases affect groups of animals or plantsuntil now.Daniel Moran from the Norwegian University of Science and
3、 Technology and Keiichiro Kanemoto from Shinshu University in Japan have developed a technique that allows them to realize threats to wildlife caused by the worldwide supply chains. Theyve used this technique to create a series of world maps that show the species threat hot spots for individual coun
4、tries.The researchers calculated the percentage of threat to an animal or a plant in one country due to consumption of goods in another. They focused on 6,803 animals and most of them were easily hurt or in danger of dying out. They found that US consumption caused species threat hot spots in Southe
5、ast Asia, also in Southern Europe, throughout Central America and into Southern Canada.The researchers say finding the relationship between consumption and environmental impacts offers an important opportunity for governments, companies, and individuals to find ways to act against them and do someth
6、ing connected with trade and industry. For example, Indonesia local government can only control the producers whose products cause losses of various plants and animals and cutting or burning down the trees. But if the EU wants to look at its role in causing those problems in Indonesia, they could lo
7、ok at the maps and see what kind of impacts EU consumers are having on that country and then decide to adjust their research programmers or environmental priorities and make changes.1. Why does the author use the example in paragraph 1?A. To call on people to deal with environmental problems.B. To c
8、onnect environmental problems to economic activities.C. To reach wise decisions based on the local actual situations.D. To seek practical ways to protect the animals, plants and trees.2. What kind of contribution do the researchers make?A. To discover the effective measures. B. To invent an advanced
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