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  3. Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be

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问题     Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For tire second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.  
The Polluted Environment
    Our environment is being polluted faster than nature and man’s present efforts can prevent it. / Time is bringing us more people, / and more people will bring us more industry, / more motor vehicles, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. / What can explain and solve this problem? / The fact is that pollution is caused by man / —by his desire for a modem way of life. / We make increasing industrialization our chief aim. / For its sake, we are willing to sacrifice everything: / clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. / There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, / eager for the benefits of modem society. / But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, / so pollution has become a serious problem. / Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and why? /
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答案 The Polluted Environment Our environment is being polluted faster than nature and man’s present efforts can prevent it. / Time is bringing us more people, / and more people will bring us more industry, / more motor vehicles, larger cities, and the growing use of man-made materials. / What can explain and solve this problem? / The fact is that pollution is caused by man / —by his desire for a modem way of life. / We make increasing industrialization our chief aim. / For its sake, we are willing to sacrifice everything: / clean air, pure water, good food, our health and the future of our children. / There is a constant flow of people from the countryside into the cities, / eager for the benefits of modem society. / But as our technological achievements have grown in the last twenty years, / so pollution has become a serious problem. / Isn’t it time we stopped to ask ourselves where we are going and why? /
解析 注意, vehicles (交通工具)的拼写; industrialization 工业化; sacrifice 牺牲; technological 技术的;最后一句用了虚拟语气, stop要用过去时。
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