2. 外语
  3. Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famin

Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famin

admin2011-02-11  57
问题   Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide.
Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts are causing famine in some
but industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.   【M1】______
Since the world’s population is expecting to double in the next 50 years, 【M2】______
many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis.
But that doesn’t have to be the outcome. Water shortages do not
have to trouble the world—if we started valuing water more than we  【M3】______
have in the past. Just like we began to appreciate petroleum more after  【M4】______
the 1970s oil crisis, today we must start looking at water from a fresh
economical perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a  【M5】______
virtual free resource of which we can use as much as we like. 【M6】______
  Instead, for all uses except the domestic demand of the poor,
governments should price water to reflect their actual value. This means 【M7】______
charging a fee for the water itself as well as for the demand costs. 【M8】______
Governments should also protect this resource by providing
water with more economically and environmentally sound ways. 【M9】______
Often the cheapest way to provide irrigation water in the dry tropics
is through small-scaled projects, such as gathering rainfall in depressions 【M10】______
and pumping it to nearby cropland.
【M8】
选项
答案demand改成supply
解析 用词错误。本行的charging a fee的施动者是governments，因此表目的的for结构说明的应该是政府的“供应”成本，而不是“需求”成本。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/P7eO777K
0

专业英语八级

相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)