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Unit 3
ENVIRONVMENTAL
PROTECTION
------Reading and Thinking
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
—Mohandas K·Gandhi.
地球能满足人类的需要,但满足不了人类的贪婪。
——莫罕达斯·卡拉姆昌德·甘地
Part 01
Lead-in
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Have you ever imagined the end of the world?
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Do you know the dangers of CLIMATE CHANGE?
drought
Icebergs break off
trees withered or died
Sea-level rise
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Part 02
Pre-reading
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Before you read, look at the graph and the picture below and discuss these questions in groups.
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What is the graph about? What information can you get from it?
The graph shows the change in the Global Surface Temperature between 1920 and 2016.
The Global Surface temperature is abnormal and rising.
Temperature Anomaly(n.异常)
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What might be the story behind it?
Have you ever seen the photo before?
I haven't seen this photo , but I have seen photos like it.
I have seen this photo.
The story is that the polar bear starved to death because it could no find enough to eat.
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Part 03
While-reading
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1. What's the type of this text?
A. News report.
B. Biography (传记).
C. Expository essay (说明文).
D. Argumentation (议论文).
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2. What's the function of the first paragraph of the text?
A. To introduce the topic.
B. To tell us climate change has been known for decades.
C. To show the evidence of climate change.
D. To confirm that Earth is getting warmer and warmer.
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3. Why is the photo of a dead polar bear mentioned?
A. To describe how people were shocked.
B. To show how global warming influenced Earth's ecology.
C. To study how the bear died.
D. To explain why the bear had starved to death.
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4. Why do the climate scientists give a warning?
A. They don't want to find more dead animals.
B. News reports deal with climate change wrongly.
C. Climate change has brought natural disasters.
D. They have found more evidence.
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5. Why does climate change require the world's attention?
A. The number of polar bears is smaller and smaller.
B. News reports are often broadcast about extreme rainsto