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高三英语课外时文分类阅读系列(5)
第五部分“人与自然”之环境保护篇
目录:
Passage 1 太空垃圾应该如何清理?
Passage 2 保护生物多样性,中国“Z世代”在行
Passage 3 中国的“诺亚方舟”
Passage 4 太空种菜
Passage 5 印度青年用塑料制作运动鞋
Passage 6 新版《牛津英语词典》关注气候变化
Passage 1
主题语境——人与自然——太空垃圾应该如何清理?
China deployed a satellite to carry out technological tests for space junk 1.______ (manage). The spacecraft aims to demonstrate technologies to alleviate space debris.
Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s, humans 2. ______ (launch) thousands of rockets and sent even more satellites into orbit. Many are still there, and we are now facing 3. ______ ever-increasing risk of space junk.
More than 27,000 pieces of, or “space junk”, are tracked in space. Much more debris is too small to be tracked 4. ______ large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions. Since a piece of debris can move 5. ______ (fast) than a speeding bullet, collisions with these tiny pieces often leave pits in many satellites, telescopes and other objects orbiting our planet.
In 2006, for e