Unit 3 Conservation Lesson 3 The road to destruction（2）课件-2022-2023学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第一册

Unit 3 Conservation Lesson 3 The road to destruction This morning , it took me 40 minutes to go downtown . More roadworks on the A10 “ Oh really ? It took me over an hour. There was an accident on the M11. How often have you heard these conversations ? How often do we get stuck in traffic jams ? How often do we arrive at work or school , stressed out, tired and angry ? For many people , the answer is every day . But personal anger and stress are nothing compared to the real costs socially . Here are some figures about Britain : take 花费 it took/takes sb 钱/时间 to do sth stuck. adj.卡住,陷入,困于= trapped Part 1 downtown: city center / central business district(CBD) by accident 偶然,意外地 by chance Pressure 压力 Figure n. 数字 ;人物;身材 figure out=work out 弄明白 be nothing compared to 与...相比不值得一提 stressed out = anxious adj. 焦虑的 In the last 20 years , the number of cars on the roads has gone up by 25%. There are now 32 million cars . Over the last decade , an average of 2,500 people have died every year in vehicle accidents . Traffic is one of the major causes of global warming and climate change , as car engines produce various types of greenhouse gases . Almost 30,000 deaths per year are caused by air polution . Some types of cancer are related to traffic pollution . decade [ˈdekeɪd] =10 年 major=main 主要的 Part 1 on average 平均来看 below/above average 高于/低于平均水平 be caused by 由...引起 =in the last/past 2 decades go up=rise=increase 上涨;上升 go down=reduce=decrease 下降 various types of =different kinds of = a wide range of 不同种类的 be ralated to=be linked to= be connected to 与...有关 traffic We know that cars are bad for us . But we always make excuses:“The buses are terrible”.“ The trains are always late”, “I haven’t got time to walk” I’ m talking about myself , too . To be frank, l’m addicted to my car . When I asked a friend working for a green - living organisation for advice about how to give up , she told me five things : Use your legs . In 2014, over 55% of car journeys were under eight kilometres