时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 Mount Everest looms 1 in the distance. Its snow and ice-capped peak gleams in the sunshine. The Himalayan glacier 2 is a fragile ecosystem 3, which environmentalists warn could soon disappear. Greenpeace says that as global warning increases temperatures around the world, as much as 80% of these glaciers 4 could melt away in the next 30 years with devastating 5 effects.


 
We have to take immediate 6 actions in order to stop the current speed of retreating of the glacier, otherwise we will witness probably the biggest water shortage in human history.
 
These glaciers supply majority of water to China and India’s largest rivers. If the glaciers melt rapidly, the extra water flowing down the stream could cause flooding. Then with the snow and ice melted away, hundreds of millions of people who rely on the river will face droughts and water shortages.
 
And this is not something that only one country can accomplish. It will have to be a global action.
 
Increasing levels of green house gases are blamed for causing global warming. Car exhausts, industrial output and agriculture development, all contribute to the problem. But how exactly the levels can be steadied or even lowered will be hotly debated, with few countries willing to put the environment over economic interests.

1 looms
n.织布机( loom的名词复数 )v.隐约出现,阴森地逼近( loom的第三人称单数 );隐约出现,阴森地逼近
  • All were busily engaged,men at their ploughs,women at their looms. 大家都很忙,男的耕田,女的织布。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The factory has twenty-five looms. 那家工厂有25台织布机。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 glacier
n.冰川,冰河
  • The glacier calved a large iceberg.冰河崩解而形成一个大冰山。
  • The upper surface of glacier is riven by crevasses.冰川的上表面已裂成冰隙。
3 ecosystem
n.生态系统
  • This destroyed the ecosystem of the island.这样破坏了岛上的生态系统。
  • We all have an interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem.维持生态系统的完整是我们共同的利益。
4 glaciers
冰河,冰川( glacier的名词复数 )
  • Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills. 冰川把丘陵地带冲出一条条山谷。
  • It has ice and snow glaciers, rainforests and beautiful mountains. 既有冰川,又有雨林和秀丽的山峰。 来自英语晨读30分(高一)
5 devastating
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
6 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
学英语单词
actual compression ratio
agent business on securities
airhose
akidopeirastic
ampinova
anisotropic distortion
appendicopathia oxyurica
Astghik
atmospheric condition
belit
boregasm
calcspars
calls by
Campylotropis capillipes
chemical transducer
chesterfield is.
cloud genus
co-exists
coefficient of damping
combined statement of income and earned surplus
commode step
complex singular kernel
current carring part
curry trees
dance of bacchus (greece)
decessit sine prole
defibrated
diffraction cross-section
drug for the treatment of cough and asthma
dual pressure preformer
eleona
floating-point units
genus arctostaphyloss
george borrow
German wheat
go away with the garland
gorbies
ground unrest
Hansberry, Lorraine
high speed streak camera
Hynerpeton
impalco alloy
inexpertnesses
insulation work
invariant definition
lateral spinal sclerosis
Laungshe
lock-and-key protection
lockery
loose cable structure
mass buying
microporous structure
Monastyrishche
moraine plateau
national advertising
needlecord
net interest paid
ninja looters
non-retail
normalized parameter
notekeeping
occupational skin disease
old mother hubbard
Oldeberkoop
one-out-of-ten code
place under repair
plumb bob cord
pre-built
protostrongylosis
redefecting
rehabbing
reinstallation expense
right hand quartz
runway touchdown zone lights
saboor
saddle tank machine
sagehood
sarcoma of breast
screen connector
screen coordinate
seances
selective system of preference
self inflammable mixture
set eggs
show toolbar
shudderings
slutly
stem the torrent
stereotemplet triagulation
technique of vaccination or inoculation
tectonas
tetraclitella divisa
therapeutic vaccine
throatlash
tineid moth
torrealba
travelpass shaving method
trifunctionality
us toll
westbound
working sensitivity
Zheleznogorsk