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  3. The Bush administration has agreed to speed efforts to protect twenty-nine kinds of animals and plants that are most in danger o

The Bush administration has agreed to speed efforts to protect twenty-nine kinds of animals and plants that are most in danger o

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问题     The Bush administration has agreed to speed efforts to protect twenty-nine kinds of animals and plants that are most in danger of disappearing. Wildlife officials promised to act quickly to list (36)______ of rare mammals,  birds,fish, snails and butterflies. This list (37)______ government agencies and private companies from doing anything that (38)______ a species or its environment. Members of the public can request that some species be listed as (39)______ so that they will receive federal protection and officials must decide about the (40)______ within a year.
    But listings have often led to court (41)______. Property owners argue that some species are not important enough to require such protections. However, officials say that all species are worth protecting. They (42)______ that endangered species often are signs of environmental problems that could affect humans. The agreement calls for the government to consider three species for emergency listing: a kind of snail, butterfly and rabbit that are in (43)______ danger of disappearing.
     (44)____________. In exchange, environmental groups promised to delay demands that the federal government act on eight less seriously endangered species. (45) ____________.
    Four environmental groups were involved in the negotiations. They have repeatedly taken legal action to force the federal government to enforce the Act. Government officials and environmental groups praised the agreement, (46) ____________.

  
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答案saying it shows that the two strongly opposing sides can work together to save species most in need of help
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