Unit 5
1 distribute wealth 2. drill a hole 3 drive the turbine 4 refine/extract oil 5 invite disaster 6 irrigate land 7 squander money
8 sustain river deltas and wetlands
1 无法满足的需求 2 不明智的补救办法 3 地下水水位 4 已经断流的河流
5 饥荒，瘟疫及大规模移民 6 供应及需求
7 大澡盆，电淋浴及抽水马桶
8 作物品种
9 sweep globe
10 drain/remove sewage 11 save water 12 conserve oil
13 satisfy the demands/ meet the demands 14 harness rivers and
lakes
9 灌溉区
10物质不灭定律／质量守恒定律 11 海水淡化
12 供不应求，超过需求 13 濒危物种 14冷却系统 15 火电
3 Replace
1 becoming terribly scarce, keep squandering, inviting disasters
2 are at a loss as what to do with, meet the insatiable demands 3
desalinate,
expensive,
requires
elaborate/sophisticated apparatus 4 famines, pestilence, sweep the globe
5 overblown, remedies, ill-conceived, is bound to/ is sure or certain to/ is destined to 6 routine, frequently
7 in due course/ gradually, bring supply and demand into equilibrium
8 perforated, aquifers, falling, glaciers, vanishing,
4 Translate
1. Statistics show that China has a total amount of trillion cubic meters of water resource, second only to Brazil, Russia and Canada, ranking the fourth (to be updated) in the world. But when divided by
billion, our average per-capita share of water resource only amounts to about one quarter of the world’s average.
2. We have always been heavily burden with the problem of water shortage. It is said that the 661 large and medium-sized cities nationwide, about two-thirds are suffering from acute shortage of water. Beijing is a good example in point. It not only lacks surface water, even its underground water is dangerously low. It is reported to have dropped by 90 meters. Some scholars suggest we move our capital to some other place. This is of course unfeasible/ unrealistic, but the message is clear.
3. Our water resources first of all are not evenly distributed in time or space. They are either too much, causing floods, or too little, causing droughts. 4. In spite of the impressive progress we have achieved in the past years, we are still far from effectively harnessing our rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Soil erosion and desertification are increasingly threatening our economy and people’s life. Many of our rivers no longer flow to the sea. In 1998, the
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