Unit 3 Environmental Protection Using Language Reading for writing（分层作业）-【上好课】2022-2023学年高二英语同步备课系列(人教版2019选择性必修第三册）

Unit 3 Environmental Protection Using Language分层作业（原卷版） 一、用单词的适当形式完成句子 1．She is a model and performance artist devoted to ocean ______(conserve). 2．Thanks to the efforts in environmental protection, the wetland ________ (restore) to its original appearance. 3．All the passengers, according to the new _______(regulate), are to be inspected before boarding the subway. 4．Visitors must present all carried items for _______(inspect) upon entry. 5．________(honest), you couldn’t make him satisfied with what you did. 6．She had no ________(tolerant) for jokes of any kind so we are all afraid to play jokes on her. 7．While you are traveling abroad, attention should be paid to preventing yourself from ________ (fine)． 二、阅读理解 A It was a sight you don’t normally see: a jellyfish lying dead in the middle of a parking lot partly flooded in water. But this was no ordinary parking lot. This particular section downtown Annapolis, Maryland, is among a growing number of areas easily affected by frequent high-tide flooding in the seaside town. High-tide floods, also known as sunny-day floods, occur when tides reach anywhere from 1.75 to 2 feet above the daily average high tide and start spilling onto streets. These floods are usually not related to storms.They typically occur during high tides. The gravitational pull of the Moon drives the tides. Winds can also influence how high the tides come in. Then there are the climate patterns like El Nino (厄尔尼诺现象), which lead to higher-than-normal sea levels along both the U. S. East and West coasts. And, of course, the most powerful driver is sea level rise itself. Because of rising seas driven by climate change, the frequency of this kind of flood has dramatically increased in recent years. The ocean is rising at about 3.3 millimeters, or 0.13 inches a year, mostly due to the melting of land-based ice and the heated expansion of ocean water, according to NASA． Defenses are built in response to the high-tide floods. Half a mile up the road