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1、Oysters are making a comeback on menus and in the water-for now生蛇重返菜单！Over a century ago, oysters sparked a harvesting frenzy in the mid-Atlantic. At the local oyster industrys peak during the late 19th century, more than 20 million bushels of oysters were pulled from Chesapeake Bay every year. But

2、in the decades that followed, oystermen harvested more quickly than the oysters could reproduce, and they did so with large, scraping tools that transformed craggy reefs into muddy substrates in which oysters couldnt survive.一个多世纪前，大西洋中部掀起了一场捕捞生蛀的狂潮。在19世纪末当地生蛇产业的鼎盛 时期，每年从切萨皮克湾打捞出的生蛇超过2000万蒲式耳。但在随后的几

3、十年里，生蛇的 捕捞速度远超其繁殖速度。捕捞生蛇的人使用大型捕捞工具，甚至把崎岖的珊瑚礁变成了生 蛀无法生存的泥泞基质。By 2005, the National Marine Fisheries Service considered placing the eastern oyster on the endangered species list. Today, oyster populations are still less than one percent of their former numbers.到2005年，国家海洋渔业部(National Marine Fisheries

4、Service)考虑将东方蛇列入濒危 物种名单。今天，生蛇的数量仍不达之前的百分之一。But the small and mighty bivalve is still making a comeback in the bay, the largest estuary in the United States.但在美国最大的入海口海湾，这种又小又壮的双壳类动物已经卷土重来。In Virginia, our shellfish sector is doing really well, and a lot of that is based on advances in aquaculture,H

5、says Mike Schwarz, an oyster expert at Virginia Tech.“在弗吉尼亚州，我们的贝类产业开展得非常好，这在很大程度上是基于水产养殖的进步， 弗吉尼亚理工大学的生蛇专家迈克施瓦茨f Mike Schwarz)说。Keeping it growing and being sustainable is part of looking at climate change. People my age didnt have a chance to eat oysters. There was this period where you just didnt

6、 have them,” says Oliver, an oyster companys director of farms. Now its the younger generations chance to dive into that world.一家生蛇公司的农场主管奥利弗Oliver)说：“保持生蛇的增长和可持续开展还要着眼于 气候变化。我这个年纪的人都没时机吃生蛇。有一段时间根本没有生蛀。现在正是年轻一代 深入了解那个世界的时候。语料库l.peak英/pi:k/ 美/pi:k/n.巅峰，顶点；极值；山顶；尖端v.到达顶峰，到达最大值at the peak of在顶峰期e.g. Sh

7、efs at the peak of her career,她正处在事业的巅峰。2.consider/kansida(r)/ It/kansidar/v.考虑；认为；体贴同根词：considerable adj.相当大的，相当重要的consideration n.考虑；体贴.endangered/indeindsed/ ft/indeindserd/adj.（动植物）濒危的endangered species 濒危物种.advance英/scTvoms/ tt/advaens/n.进步，进展；改善v.使）前进；开展，进步；提前；促进，推动in advance预先，提前5.sustainable

8、英/s5steinsb（s）l/ 美/sesteineb（s）l/adj.（自然资源）可持续的sustainable development 可持续开展作文素材积累1 .transformed craggy reefs into muddy substrates in which oysters couldnt survive.介词+which/whom引导的定语从句用于正式场合。在这一结构中，关系代词which/whom 做介词的宾语。领先行词是物时，用介词+which引导定语从句，而且只能加which,不能加that。例如：Queen Elizabeth II was the rock o

9、n which modern Britain was built.女王伊丽莎白二世是现代英国的基石。领先行词是人时，用介词+whom引导定语从句。例如：They may start as a group of high-school students,./or whom practising their music in someones house is the first step to fame.也许，他们刚刚起步时只是一群高中生，对他们来说，在屋里排练歌曲就是成名的第一步。当“介词+which/whom”结构在定语从句中做时间、地点和原因状语时可以用关系副词 when/where/wh

10、y 替代。例如：They visited the city where/in which John Denver was born.他们参观了约翰丹佛出生的城市。I will never forget the year when/in which our band started.我永远不会忘记我们乐队成立的那一年。The reason why/for which he left the band was that he hated the busy life.他离开乐队的原因是他讨厌繁忙的生活。下载天学网教师端，免费使用名校新教材课件方式一：鼠标右键点击“天学网教师端按钮，选择“翻开超链接，下载天学网教师端;方式二：复制链接 至浏览器翻开，下载天学网教师端;