Unit 2 Section BUnit 2 Section BUnit 2 Section BUnit 2 Section B

Green Spaces in Cities

Content

Revision

Listening tasks

Video watching

A song

Assignment

Revision: Vocabulary Exercise 1Please fill in the blanks with the proper word or

phrase you have learned in the text.

1. His mind seemed completely . 他的脑子里似乎一片空白。

2. A car gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility.私人小汽车能给人很大的舒服和机动性。

3. He prefers country life to life.

他喜欢乡村生活而不喜欢城市生活。

vacant

private

urban

4. Idioms usually cannot be translated _______ in another language. 成语通常不能用另一种语言逐字翻译。

5. The story the wolf as a tricky and cruel animal. 这个故事把狼描绘成一种狡猾和残酷的野兽。

6. His poems are by no means to Shelley‘s. 他写的诗无法与雪莱相比。

7. Our holiday in Australia was very ______.

我们在澳大利亚度假开销很大。

literally

characterizes

comparable

costly

8. A number of societies are their efforts to send out food to the area worst affected by the flood. 许多社会组织都在协力往受水灾最严重的地区运送食物。

9. The waiter hurried to the pieces of the broken plates.服务员赶紧把盘碟的碎片打扫干净。

10. Heavy rains the topsoil_______.大雨把表层土冲蚀掉了

coordinating

clean up

washed away

1. I rang the hotel to ____ a double room for a week.

A. reserve B. conserve

C. preserve D. occupy

Revision: Vocabulary Exercise 2

2. These special interest groups represent such _______ viewpoints as consumerism, environmental protection, for and against the equal rights amendment( 修正案 ), social

reform, antibusiness, probusiness, and even anti-tax increase.

A. diverse B. divorce

C. reverse D. converse

3. The coastline has been hit by a ___ of violent storms.

A. serial B. series

C. sector D. segment

4. He burns a(n) ___ to win a fame.

A. emotion B. sensation

C. ambition D. indignation

5. Many doctors ___ upon a diet which contains a lot of fat.

A. frown B. crown

C. drown D. brown

6. Five out of ten posts falling ___ are being kept empty.

A. vacuum B. vacant

C. vain D. vague

7. Computer Science is an ________ subject

for law students at our university. A. open B. option

C. optical D. optional

8. London is one of the important ________ centers of the world.

A. economic B. financial

C. finance D. economical

9. The country has a(n) _________ of skilled workers, but not enough jobs.

A. abundance

B. quality

C. plenty D. lot

10. Education in government colleges is very cheap, but if you go to the__________ colleges, it is much more expensive .

A. private B. personal

C. personal D. public

Listening Task 1

• Listen to the following 20 short conversations. Each conversation is followed by ONE question. After you hear the question, there’ll be a break of 15 seconds. During the break, you’ll read the four choices marked (A), (B), (C) and (D), and decide which is the best answer.

1.(A) The man should listen to the weather report. (B) The air was polluted yesterday.(C) She might not go hiking tomorrow.(D) She wants to advise a hotel for tomorrow.

2.(A) The local people help the government with nature protection.(B) The leaders are enjoying an opera with the local people.(C) The villagers are running a business.(D) The local government is doing everything it could to preserve natural resources.

3.(A) He has already watched the documentary. (B) He wants to watch a program on TV.(C) He’s supposed to return the official papers by eight o’clock. (D) He thinks the film has been removed.

4.(A) She needs to get more rest. (B) She took a rest last week and it helped her a lot. (C) She wasn’t interested in last week’s lecture. (D) She was surprised to find the lecture so easy.

5.(A) She shouldn’t change her timetable.(B) She plans to stay in Brazil all summer.(C) She should travel somewhere she’d never been before.(D) She would be able to go if she wanted to.

6.(A) Things with the power plant have improved. (B) The government is going to set up another power plant.(C) The power plant will get money from the government.(D) The government has set up a principle for the funds.

7.(A) Give him the mobile phone. (B) Take the mobile phone to the lost and found desk.(C) Put the mobile phone in his desk. (D) Take the last desk to the room.

8.(A) The lawn needs cutting.(B) The lawn helps cool her house.(C) She needs more air conditioning.(D) Her house is beautiful.

9.(A) He’s glad there’ll be another film theater. (B) It’s important that another film theater open on the grounds.(C) He doesn’t care about the film theater.(D) They shouldn’t build another film theater.

10.(A) People shouldn’t smoke in this room. (B) This is a smoking room.(C) The room is on fire. (D) Both the man and the woman smoke.

11.(A) He will give the woman a ride.(B) He will go to the recycling center. (C) He will have the woman take his waste paper to the recycling center.(D) He will go cycling.

12.(A) Asking young people to take care of the environment is very important. (B) Young people should be aware that they will not be able to use the lecture hall again.(C) It is very important for young people to clean the lecture hall.(D) Young people should take care not to throw newspapers over the floor. 

13.(A) It is possible to solve the problem. (B) The construction job will last long.(C) The man has no reason to complain.(D) The man should move to a new building.

14.(A) The environment is polluted.  (B) She can’t buy fish there.(C) She can’t go fishing there.(D) There’re no rivers there.

15.(A) He doesn’t agree with the woman. (B) He agrees with the woman.(C) The newspaper is responsible for environmental protection.(D) The newspaper has much to do with the environment.

16.(A) The article is interesting.(B) The world’s largest jungle forest is in Brazil. (C) The magazine is published in Brazil.(D) People make their homes in the jungle forest.

17.(A) He’s going to be a teacher.(B) He’s going to encourage environmental awareness.(C) He and the woman will work in the same company. (D) He’s going to quit his job.

18.(A) It is uncomfortable because of the wind.(B) The wind has died away. (C) The man expected it to be windy.(D) It isn’t as warm as the man thought it would be.

19.(A) He helped to protect wildlife.(B) He worked in the wilds.(C) He worked at the emergency services.(D) He worked at the wildlife center to earn money to pay his school fees.

20.(A) Population will continue to expand in spite of birth control. (B) Population is getting smaller because of birth control.(C) Population will remain unchanged.(D) No children will be born in this city.

Listen again and check the answers.

1.(A) The man should listen to the weather report. (B) The air was polluted yesterday.(C) She might not go hiking tomorrow.(D) She wants to advise a hotel for tomorrow.

2.(A) The local people help the government with nature protection.(B) The leaders are enjoying an opera with the local people.(C) The villagers are running a business.(D) The local government is doing everything it could to preserve natural resources.

3.(A) He has already watched the documentary. (B) He wants to watch a program on TV.(C) He’s supposed to return the official papers by eight o’clock. (D) He thinks the film has been removed.

4.(A) She needs to get more rest. (B) She took a rest last week and it helped her a lot. (C) She wasn’t interested in last week’s lecture. (D) She was surprised to find the lecture so easy.

5.(A) She shouldn’t change her timetable.(B) She plans to stay in Brazil all summer.(C) She should travel somewhere she’d never been before.(D) She would be able to go if she wanted to.

6.(A) Things with the power plant have improved. (B) The government is going to set up another power plant.(C) The power plant will get money from the government.(D) The government has set up a principle for the funds.

7.(A) Give him the mobile phone. (B) Take the mobile phone to the lost and found desk.(C) Put the mobile phone in his desk. (D) Take the last desk to the room.

8.(A) The lawn needs cutting.(B) The lawn helps cool her house.(C) She needs more air conditioning.(D) Her house is beautiful.

9.(A) He’s glad there’ll be another film theater. (B) It’s important that another film theater open on the grounds.(C) He doesn’t care about the film theater.(D) They shouldn’t build another film theater.

10.(A) People shouldn’t smoke in this room. (B) This is a smoking room.(C) The room is on fire. (D) Both the man and the woman smoke.

11.(A) He will give the woman a ride.(B) He will go to the recycling center. (C) He will have the woman take his waste paper to the recycling center.(D) He will go cycling.

12.(A) Asking young people to take care of the environment is very important. (B) Young people should be aware that they will not be able to use the lecture hall again.(C) It is very important for young people to clean the lecture hall.(D) Young people should take care not to throw newspapers over the floor. 

13.(A) It is possible to solve the problem. (B) The construction job will last long.(C) The man has no reason to complain.(D) The man should move to a new building.

14.(A) The environment is polluted.  (B) She can’t buy fish there.(C) She can’t go fishing there.(D) There’re no rivers there.

15.(A) He doesn’t agree with the woman. (B) He agrees with the woman.(C) The newspaper is responsible for environmental protection.(D) The newspaper has much to do with the environment.

16.(A) The article is interesting.(B) The world’s largest jungle forest is in Brazil. (C) The magazine is published in Brazil.(D) People make their homes in the jungle forest.

17.(A) He’s going to be a teacher.(B) He’s going to encourage environmental awareness.(C) He and the woman will work in the same company. (D) He’s going to quit his job.

18.(A) It is uncomfortable because of the wind.(B) The wind has died away. (C) The man expected it to be windy.(D) It isn’t as warm as the man thought it would be.

19.(A) He helped to protect wildlife.(B) He worked in the wilds.(C) He worked at the emergency services.(D) He worked at the wildlife center to earn money to pay his school fees.

20.(A) Population will continue to expand in spite of birth control. (B) Population is getting smaller because of birth control.(C) Population will remain unchanged.(D) No children will be born in this city.

Listening Task 2Listen to a radio program and fill in the blanks.

• Brad Udall: People tend to think of __________ in the same terms, be it energy or be it water. And conservation couldn’t be more different between water and energy.

• Brad Udall is Director of the U.S. Western Water Assessment. He believes water managers should take the difference between water and other resources into when deciding how and when to conserve it.

conservation

fundamentalaccount

Next

• In other words, when you burn a piece of coal, it’s gone. But water down the drain isn’t “ ” in the ordinary sense. Instead, water can be used and ________ many times. Udall said that much of the water used for cropland irrigation runs off to and rivers or soaks back into the groundwater supply. What water is used by plants later goes into the as water vapor. Still later, it returns as rain or snow.

Next

consumedreused

atmosphere

streams

• So for example, city reservoirs can only hold so much water. Then, it might be appropriate to lift water in short periods of heavy rainfall – even after several previous years of drought.

• In the years to come, as water becomes a more resource to Earth’s burgeoning population, we’ll need a more thorough understanding about the fundamental difference between water and other .

restrictions

precious

resources

Video watching and discussion

Everything has been changing, such as, the energy, air, land, water, food and so on. Who will change the world? Watch the video clip!

Shortages of freshwater

• Shortages of freshwater are truly a global problem, particularly felt today in the dryland regions but it will be felt tomorrow worldwide. At the present time, 76% of the world‘s population has a specific water availability of less than 5,000 m3 per year per capita ( 人 ) and 35% of that figure has very low water supplies. This situation will deteriorate ( 恶化 ) further in the beginning of the new century -- by 2025 most of the Earth's population will be living under the conditions of low water supplies, at 1000 m3 per year per capita.

A Song—Earth SongBy Michael Jackson

About deforestation

Earth Song

Assignment

Reflect on environmental problems.

Review Unit 2. Preview Unit 3 A.