M5 uint 2 reading - 副本

Unit 2 Reading
--- The economy or the environment ---must we choose? Part One:
Read paragraph 1 and answer the following question.
Q1: What is the question of the debate?
Q2: Who are the two speakers and what society does each of them belong to?
Part Two:
Part Three:
Read Qian Liwei’s speech and finish the following questions.
Firstly read the first paragraph of Qian Liwei’s speech and answ er the questions below.
Q1: In Qian Liwei’s opinion, what do people often think of when it comes to
Q2: In Qian Liwei’s opinion, what do people find the busine ssmen?
(no more than 1 word)
Q3: In Qian Liwei’s opinion, what belief do people often have?
Secondly read the rest paragraphs and judge the following sentences True (T) or False (F) according to the text.
1. Although factories and industries are not concerned about the environment, they don’t control the pollution. ( F)
2. Qian Liwei also agrees to reduce production in order to save the environment. ( F)
3. In Qian Liwei’s opinion, we need better laws to preserve the environment. ( T)
4. People are concerned about the environment, but they are not willing to pay a higher price for environmentally friendly goods. ( F)
5. Those factories which pollute the environment should have to pay high taxes. ( T)
6. In Qian Liwei’s opinion, we should use more recycled materials than raw materials in production. ( T)
At last choose the best answer of the question below according to he whole text. What below do Lin Shuiqing and Qian Liwei both mention in their speech?
A. chemical waste and laws
B. population and production
C. recycling waste and production
D. water pollution and taxes
课文中的难句分析：
1.First I am talking to you about the way vast areas of the world are damaged
by chemical waste.
2.Other types of waste flow into our water, killing river and sea life.
3.This will result in a smaller amount of fish left for us to eat in the future.
4.While we damage our environment, we keep producing more and more
people who need more land to live on and more food to eat.
5.It is out duty to cut back on production and reduce the amount of things we
make and buy.
6.It would be good to increase the amount of things we recycle, and teach
people ways of living that do not harm the environment.
7.It is clear that you are very concerned about the present situation of our
environment.
8.When people think of factories, they think of clouds of dirty smokes or of
pipes pouring chemical waste into rivers. They think of greedy businessmen hiding from their responsibilities and only worrying about money.
9.People often have this belief that development is bad for the environment,
but this does not have to be true.
10.What I’m here to say is that having wor ked with many environmental
consultants, I know that a healthy environment and development should be possible at the same time.
11.There are many factories and industries which control the amount of
pollution they produce, and are very careful to spend money repairing any damage they cause.
12.The people operating these factories are deeply concerned about the
environment.
13.Ms Lin suggested we should cut back on the quantity of things we produce
in order to save the environment.
14.However, I do agree that we should produce more things from materials that
have been recycled, and less from raw materials, the supply of which is growing smaller and smaller.
15.What we need are better laws to preserve the environment and still allow
out country to grow.
16.This includes controls on how many trees are cut down and how many fish
are caught.
17.This might make wood and seafood more expensive, but paying a higher
price for some things is not always bad.
18. Asking around, I find many people willing to pay a little higher price of things that are friendly to the environment.。