晚练册 第12周-【晨读晚记】2023-2024学年高三上学期英语阅读强化训练

Week Twelve 第12周 晚练 的阅读理解A 原创 What makes humans different from other species?To environmental professor Stephanie Hughes,it's the fact that we produce things that can't be used again in nature.We break the cycle.Professor Hughes doesn't even like to use the word,"waste". "I'm not very pleased with that term because really,humans are the only ones that have waste streams," Hughes says.“In the rest of the world,this planet operates cyclically(循环地)：waste from one animal becomes nutrients for another." Before going to college,Gabby Farrer used to bring certain types of recycling to her high school,because she knew that not all types could be recycled at home.She tries her best to live sustainably.In taking Garbology (垃圾学)，she learned that the system didn't work as well as she thought it did.“In the past I viewed it a lot as an individual effort and everybody should be doing their part,"Farrer says."And then,learning more,I realized that the best thing that I could be doing is probably making less trash.I feel hopeless at times.I feel frustrated, but sometimes hopeful." Right now,our planet is in the middle of the sixth mass extinction,as a large portion of distinct species are dying off.Farrer thinks that even if humans wipe ourselves out,life will spring back.At least,that's what happened after the five previous mass extinctions."There is going to be life on this planet in the future.I just won't be here to see it thrive,"Farrer says.But before we just accept that as fate,things can be done here and now. Despite the tendency to be pessimistic about the future of the environment,students say that Professor Hughes keeps things exciting and positive."It feels like a mountain of fear,"says Oli Branham-Upton,a junior who took Garbology in 2022."But I think classes like this,which are specific enough to cover a certain dimen- sion of stuff that we can control within the climate crisis,are important." What does Hughes think humans differ from other species? A.Humans can end