Unit 8 Green Living新课导入&附录：课文译文（课件）-【优化探究】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第三册同步导学案（北师大版2019）

下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 导语：就在明尼阿波利斯中央图书馆的正前方，一排绿色的自行车停放在一个特殊的展台上。每辆自行车的设计都带有“Nice Ride”的标志——这是该市共享单车计划的名称。 Right in front of the Minneapolis Central Library， a row of green bikes sits parked in a special stand. Each bike is designed with the logo “Nice Ride”—the name of the city's bike­sharing programme. 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 Nice Ride bikes are a lot like the library books that people come here to borrow. To rent a bike， you simply use your membership card at a Nice Ride bike station. Members can rent one of 1，200 bikes from 138 stations throughout Minnesota's largest city. People use the Nice Ride bikes to go to work， to go out on business， or just to enjoy the city's many bike paths. 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 The rise of bike­sharing programmes like Nice Ride is encouraging more people than ever to choose biking over driving. Skyrocketing gas prices and concerns about the environment have also gotten people to dust off their bike helmets， pump air into flat tires， and hit the road. 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 Why ride？ Not only is biking good exercise， but switching from a car to a bike also cuts down the amount of pollution in the air. Carbon dioxide， a greenhouse gas linked to climate change， is one of the many polluting substances that come out of a car's tail pipe. Bike­sharing systems are found around the world in cities like London， Paris， Barcelona， and Melbourne. 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 To make roads friendlier to non­motorists， the US Department of Transportation has invested more than a billion dollars in cycling and pedestrian projects in recent years. The money went towards building thousands of miles of on­street bike lanes and pedestrian­only passages called greenways. 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 $附录：UNIT 8　GREEN LIVING　课文译文 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 [教材P31] 根与芽 很多人都有所谓的“就我一个”问题。这是什么意思呢？比方说你刷牙的时候让水哗哗地流，外出的时候不关灯，或者掉了一块垃圾却懒得捡起来。你知道这些都是错的，但那又怎么样？“会有什么差别呢？”你对自己说，“世界上有数百万人，我不过是我自 下页 上页 北师英语 必修第三册 己。如果我不关一个小小的水龙头，开着一盏小小的灯或在路上掉了一小块垃圾，这会有什么问题？而且不管怎样，也没人会知道。”当然，如果世界上只有少数几个人也没有关系。但试想要是数百万人都对自己说：“没关