2022届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：澳大利亚火灾话题

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜澳大利亚大火连月肆虐，为啥还没灭？ 近年来，全球山火不断，但是最近的澳大利亚山火，其严重程度和影响范围之广，都是史上罕见的。这场山火连烧4个月，横扫澳大利亚6个州，大约5亿只动物丧生，造成灾难性破坏。但难以置信的是，政府领导人不仅不作为，反而继续维护化石燃料行业，遭到公民的批评。为何这场山火越烧越大？澳洲政府此番作法的背后原因何在？ Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide By Richard Flanagan ① Australia now is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. The fires have already burned about 14.5 million acres — more than triple the area destroyed by the 2018 fires in California and six times the size of the 2019 fires in Amazonia. ② And yet, incredibly, the response of Australia’s leaders to this unprecedented national crisis has been not to defend their country but to defend the fossil fuel industry, a big donor to both major parties. ③ In Australia today, the political establishment, grown sclerotic and demented on its own fantasies, is facing a monstrous reality which it has neither the ability nor the will to confront. ④ With no effective opposition from a Labor Party reeling from its election loss and with media dominated by Rupert Murdoch — 58 percent of daily newspaper circulation — firmly behind his climate denialism, the prime minister, the conservative Scott Morrison, appears to hope that he will prevail as long as he doesn’t acknowledge the magnitude of the disaster engulfing Australia. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.catastrophe [kəˈtæstrəfi] n. ___________________________ 2.incredibly [ɪnˈkredəbli] adv. ___________________________ 3.response [rɪˈspɒns] n. __________________________ 4.unprecedented [ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd] adj. __________________________ 5.crisis [ˈkraɪsɪs] n. __________________________ 6.defend [dɪˈfend] vt. __________________________ 7.donor [ˈdəʊnə] n. __________________________ 8.establishment [ɪˈstæblɪʃmənt] n. __________________________ 9.sclerotic [skləˈrɒtɪk] adj. __________________________ 10.demented [dɪˈmentɪd] adj. __________________________ 11.monstrous [ˈmɒnstrəs] adj. __________________________ 12.confront [kənˈfrʌnt] vt. __________________