Unit 6 Nature in Words-【新课程能力培养】2023-2024学年新课程高二英语阅读选择性必修第三册（外研版）

选择性必修 第三册 Unit 6 A For environmental reasons, Britain will ban all new petrol and diesel-powered vehiclesfromitsroadsbeginningin23years,agovernmentreportsays. Theplan,expectedWednesday,aims tostart removingpetrolanddieselengines in 2040. It follows a similar official statement in France and comes after theBritish government was ordered by theHigh Court to develop new plans to reduce NO 2 in theair. Judgesruled thatpreviousclean-airplanswerenotenough tomeetEuropean Unionpollutionlimits in thecomingyears. Britain蒺s government has said the poor air quality has an unnecessary and avoidable negative effect on citizens蒺 health, and costs up to $3.5 billion in annual lostproductivity. Part of the new plan involves an offer of $260million to local governments to change ruleswherevehicleemissions （排放物） areoverEUstandards. Ideas so far include changing road layouts, reprogramming traffic lights and charging a fee for theoldestandmostpollutingcarsontheroad. The plan also includes $1.3 billion for government purchase of extreme-low- emission vehicles, nearly $130 million to improve infrastructure for electric vehicle chargingstationsand$378millionforremodelingexistingvehicles. “ Climatechange is alsoa reason for theplan toget thesevehiclesoff the road. Wecan蒺tcarryonwithpetrolanddieselcars, ” EnvironmentSecretaryMichaelGove said. “ It蒺s important thatweallprepare fora significant changewhichdealsnot just withtheproblemsofhealthcausedbyemissions,but thebroaderproblemscaused in termsofacceleratingclimatechange. ” Gove added that local communities are partly responsible for coming up with 54 ways to limit emissions, including possible limitations on commuters （上下班往返 者） and theadditionofcleanermass transport