Unit 1 Nature in the balance 一轮复习课文重点句子专项练习-2024届高三英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第三册

高中译林牛津版英语一轮复习 Useful sentences from the text B3 U1 1. let us not, however, flatter ____________(we) overmuch _____ account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge ______ us. 2. We have polluted our soils and seas, and cut ________ too many trees. 3. The human race has done much harm _______ the environment. 4. Let’s be thankful ________ the skies above. 5. Welcome to the jungle, a huge sea of green alive _______ the sounds of animals. 6. As the largest rainforest in the world, it plays a significant role _____ maintaining the fine balance of the Earth’s ecosystem. 7. With ______ area of around 6 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is more than half the size of China. 8. The Amazon River, from which the rainforest gets its name, is close_____ 6,400 kilometres in ________(long)—roughly 100 kilometres longer than the Yangtze River. 9. They give this area the richest biodiversity on the Earth: one____ ten known species in the world can be found here. 10. ______ the bottom, there is a system of roots beneath the ground. 11. The next level is made up _____shorter plants with large leaves. 12. Each level of the forest forms its own little world, home_____ different kinds of living things. 13. They feed ______ at least 87 species, including frogs. 14. These frogs, _____ turn, feed on insects which eat leaves and fruit. 15. When a jaguar dies, a tiny army of microorganisms helps _________(break) down its body and return the nutrients to the earth. 16. The Amazon rainforest __________(breath) life into the planet by fixing carbon and producing over 20 per cent of all the Earth’s oxygen. 17. Thus, it is often known ______ the “lungs of the planet”. 18. Over the past 50 years, about 17 per cent of the rainforest ____________(disappear) due _____ human activities such as agriculture and cattle farming. 19. As the impact of human activities continues to grow and the list of species ______ danger of extinction becomes long