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第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,1,Gore and Clinton,Gore Running for Presidency,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,2,Icecap,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,3,Polar Icecap,2003,1979,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,4,tundra,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,5,ridge,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,6,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,7,oil spill,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,8,Lesson Three,Ships in the Desert,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,9,1.to prepare by a special method,1.process,2.to put through the steps of a prescribed procedure,My job involves receiving the order,processing it,and dispatching the goods.,One has to process a photographic film to print pictures from it.,having the ability of cleaning and preparing for marketing or canning 50 tons of fish caught on a productive day,capable of processing on a good day,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,10,the Aral Sea,What does the“it”refer to in this sentence?,it was not at all possible to have a good catch,to catch a large amount of fish,the prospect of a good catch looked bleak,understatement,that extended as far as the eye could see;that extended to the far off place where the sky meets the earth,that stretchedto the horizon,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,11,Why did Gore say the sun glared through a hole in the sky?Where does the hole come from?,ozone depletion,the Trans-Antarctic Mountains,hole,cracked and peeling,?,the Clean Air Act,ozone;carbon monoxide;lead;sulfur dioxide;hydrocarbons,Where does Gore refer to when saying“the bottom of the world,two continents away from Washington,D.C.”?,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,12,icecap,to ensure the making public of data which were originally classified as top secret,to secure the release of previously top secret data,surface,How are these hummocks formed?,hummock,define,to delineate the outline or form of,Extend before our eyes are gentle hills that were defined against the sky.,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,13,collide,come together with violent,direct Impact;,When truths collide,compromise becomes the first casualty.(Henry A.Kissinger),In running round the corner,he collided with another man.,conflict,scenario,an outline/a model of an expected or a supposed sequence of events,In the scenario posed by many climatologists,decades of continued global warming would raise sea levels anywhere from 20 inches to more than 11 feet as the polar ice caps melt and the oceans upper layers expand.,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,14,Thinking about how a series of events might happen as a consequence of the thinning of the polar cap is not just a kind of practice in conjecture(speculation),it has got practical value.,Considering such scenariosexercise:,tundra,Brazil,Amazon rain forest,1 acre,43,560 square feet,13277 square meters,fast pasture,pasture where cattle can be raised quickly,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,15,birds,since miles of forest are being destroyed and the habitat for these rare birds no longer exists,thousands of birds which we have not even had a chance to see will become extinct,which meanseven heard,Typical examples showing the dangerous environmental situation in the world canbe found almost anywhere.,Imagesanywhere.,the sky alone presents another example of ill omen showing there is ecological imbalance and this kind of imbalance is developing,the sky itself offers another ghostly image,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,16,we are using and destroying resources in such volume that we are disturbing the balance between daylight and darkness,we are rippingdarkness,changing the chemical composition of atmosphere in high altitude,changing the chemistryatmosphere,to shine or sparkle with reflected light,as a wet or polished surface;to shine with a sparkling luster,glisten,implies transient or constant light that often appears against a dark background,gleam,The light gleams an instant,then its night once more.,The snow glistened in the dawn light.,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,17,be startled,to do sth.,by sth.,at sth.,She was startled to see him looking so ill.,I was startled by/at the news of his death.,v.+sb.into+doing sth.,v.+sb.out of+doing sth.,Why do some symbols so alarm us that we immediately take action and concentrate on ways of dealing with them effectively?,Why doeffectively?,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,18,And why do other symbols,though sometimesno less striking,only cause a kind of loss and inactivity and we concentrate our attention not on the ways to deal with them but instead,on some other substitutes which are easy to get and less painful?,And why dodistraction?,it may be useful to arrange them into different groups,thus getting our thoughts and feelings straightened out so that we will be able to take the most suitable action,it may beappropriately,What might be the difference between“local”skirmishes,“regional”battles and“strategic”Conflicts?,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,19,be viewed against the background of the world,be understood in a global context,acid rain,aquifer,oil spill,it seems that the problem has acquired a global nature since so many similar things occur at the same time all over the world,the pattern appears to be global,Why arent the problems regarded as strategic?,chlorine,chlorofluorocarbon,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,20,the fact that the earths natural systems are very delicate and can easily be disrupted,the fragility of the earths natural system,2.a sudden onrush,surge,n.,1.a coastal rise in water level caused by wind;a heavy,billowing,or swelling motion like that of great waves,The sea was rolling in immense surges.,A surge of anger rushed over him.,surges of smoke,a surge of pity/joy,the scientific and technological revolution suddenly develops more rapidly,a sudden accelerationrevolution,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,21,which has increased our power to influence the world around us to such a degree that can hardly be conceived,which has allowedthe world around us,material substance,physical matter,viewed in a historical context,we look at the matter from a historical point of view,modern humans,in the course of our human lifetime,during the life span of an individual,million,trillion,billion,zillion,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,22,half way,?,currently taking place,ongoing,adj.,the ongoing festival/ceremony,exponent,hassuddenly accelerated exponentially,hassuddenly developed at a speed that doubled and tripled that original speed,a number/symbol,denoting the power to which that number,symbol/expression is to be raised,axiom,a self-evident/universally recognized truth;which is generally accepted as true and doesnt need to be proved,Archimedean axiom,Euclidean axiom,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,23,It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.,livelihood,specify the occupation by means of which one earns an income,applies to what is necessary to sustain life and esp.to the food needed for health and comfort,Painting is her _.,sustenance,The urban homeless are often in desperate need of _.,daily _,sustenance,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,24,While no single discovery has had the kind of effecton our relationship to the earth that unclear weaponshave had on our relationship to warfare,it is nevertheless true that taken together,they have completely transformed our cumulative ability to exploit the earth for sustenancemaking the consequences of unstrained exploitation every bit asunthinkable as the consequences of unrestrained nuclear war.,originally,our ability to utilize the earth productively for survival grew by gradual addition but now these discoveries have changed the ability fundamentally,and this increased ability had made the result of unlimited use of global resources altogether as terrible as the results of full-scale nuclear war,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,25,Our challengeawaken us.,Our task is to see and to understand that those frightening examples of environmental destruction that are happening all over the world not only can shock and arouse us but are very much the same in nature.,They are symptomsfaced.,They are signs and indications showing that there exists a much greater and more serious problem which we have never encountered.,deforestation,to see ourselvesused to,to regard ourselves as part of a compacted system which does not function according to the rule of cause-effect we are familiar with,第三教研室张敏,Advanced English Book I Lesson 3,26,co-,3.subordinate or assistant,pref.,1.together;joint;jointly;mutually,coeducation;co-operation;,coauthor;cofounder;coworker;co-architect;co-star;cofounder,2.partner or associate in an activity,4.to the same extent or degree,copilot;coflyer,coextensive;coexist;coequality,to see ourselvesused to,to regard ourselves as part of a complex system which does not function according to the rule of cause-effect we are familiar with,