各位同學：
本周我們一起討論了寫作中的環境話題。
本周的作業：
1 復習課堂上ppt里的詞匯及句型。
2 完成第二單元的6句話練習。
關于環境話題的好詞好句：
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms.
Pollution can take the form. of chemical substances or energy, such as noise, heat or light.
Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring contaminants.
v  More (to somebody/something) than meets the eye
v  人不可貌相；有表面上看不出來、隱而不顯的事
v  Joel may look like an ordinary person, but there’s more to him than meets the eye.
v  警方認為他們在處理一起平常的搶劫案，可是事情并非初看上去那么簡單。
v  The police think they are dealing with an ordinary case of robbery but there's more to it than meets the eye.
v  這項工作看上去容易，但有見不到的難處。
v  The job seems easy, but there's more to it than meets the eye.
v  But there’s yet another side to icebergs. Many microscopic animals live inside icebergs and in the water around them. These creatures feed on minerals that the icebergs store and release as they melt.
v  But there’s yet another side to icebergs.
v  此句用以描述某事物還有不為人知的另外一面
v  But there’s yet another side to the argument!
v  There’s yet another side to the decision whether to buy a new car or not.
v  air pollution
v  light pollution
v  littering
v  noise pollution
v  soil contamination
v  radioactive contamination
v  thermal pollution
v  visual pollution
v  water pollution
v  be dying out
v  be becoming extinct
v  be on the verge of extinction
v  be under the threat of extinction
v  如果野生動植物的棲息地減少了，它們可能就滅絕了。
v  If the habitat of wildlife is cut down, they may go extinct.
v  Once the wild were on the verge of extinction, the natural ecology would be ruined.
v  一旦野生動物趨進滅亡，大自然的生態環境也將隨之毀滅。
v  Whaling kills up to 2, 000 whales a year, including species on the verge of extinction.
v  每年的捕鯨數量接近2000頭，包括瀕臨滅絕的物種
v  The earth planet is under the threat of serious species extinction and desertification, so many other problems that we have neglected.
v  我們生活的地球也面臨嚴重的物種滅絕和土地沙漠化等環境問題…我們忽視了太多問題。
v  工業化
v  industrialization
v  城市化
v  urbanization
v  沙漠化
v  desertification
v  現代化
v  modernization
v  酸化
v  acidification
v  海水淡化
v  desalination
v  photochemistry
v  光化學
v  chemical transformation
v  化學轉換
v  prevailing wind
v  主風，盛行風
v  dispersion
v  散布，分散
v  estuary
v  河口，江口
v  runoff
v  徑流量
v  aquatic ecosystem
v  水生生態系統
v  forest productivity
v  森林生產率
v  dry deposition
v  干沉積
v  由于工業化和城市化，野生動植物的自然棲息地想獨善其身是不可能的。
v  due to/industrialization/urbanization/stay intact
v  Due to industrialization and urbanization, it is impossible for the natural habitats of wildlife to stay intact.
v  酸雨導致湖泊和河流酸化，破壞高海拔地區的樹木。
v  cause/acidification/at high elevation
v  Acid rain causes acidification of lakes and streams and contributes to damage of trees at high elevations.
v  release
v  discharge
v  emit
v  emission
v  release sth. into sth.
v  植物釋放這種氣體進入大氣。
v  Plants release the gas into the atmosphere.
v  the release of sth.
v  存活的樹木可以吸收碳，許多科學家認為釋放到大氣中的碳會使得地球變暖，并加速了全球氣候的變化。
v  Living trees absorb carbon and many scientists believe the release of carbon into the atmosphere is warming the planet and fueling global climate change.
v  discharge sth. into sth.
v  將污水直接排入大海 sewage
v  Sewage is discharged directly into the sea.
v  the discharge of sth.
v  有毒廢物排放入大海
v  the discharge of toxic waste into the sea
v  emission
v  汽車尾氣證明是酸雨的罪魁禍首。culprit
v  Car emission has proved to be the culprit of acid rain.
v  環境惡化
v  environmental degradation
v  a deteriorating environment
v  水質惡化
v  water quality deterioration
v  惡化
v  be worse off
v  最近一項調查顯示，大多數人認為如果我們再照現在這樣發展下去的話，世界環境將會變得更惡劣。
v  A recent survey shows that most people feel the world will be worse off environmentally in 50 years if we go on the way we are now.

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