(
课件网) Lesson 47 Too High a Price Words and expressions The city is heavily polluted. air pollution information pollution 1.Pollution 污染 这个城市被严重污染了。 Pollute one’s mind 2.Populate V.居住 heavily populated over populated Population explosion Population n. 人口 3.Overwhelm V.制服， 使不知所措 be overwhelmed with sorrow 很悲伤 4,Profound 极度的， 深远的 have influence on children 4,Profound 极度的， 深远的 Have a influence on children profound 教育对孩子产生深远的影响。 Education has profound influence on children. profound impression 5.Irritation n.烦躁 噪音对人们来说是烦躁之源。 Noise is a constant source of irritation for people. 6.Contribution n. Contribute a poem to a magazine 投稿 香烟是导致癌症发生的主要原因。 Cigarette is the major factor contributing to cancer Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet. pay the price for 为…做出的代价 缺水是我们为环境污染所作出的惨重代价。 Lack of water is the heavy price we pay for environment pollution. When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish: dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it. come to do sth. 开始做某事 come to think about future come to like it come to realize We keep trying all four methods, but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us. Volume 体积 容量 音量 traffic volume 交通容量 trade volume 贸易容量 Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet. The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution. ever-increasing ever-lasting ever-green ever-blooming 四季开花的 四季常青的 不断持续的 不断上升的 Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken. The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables. The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high: Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and listeria in dairy products. And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian, you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water! steady 稳定的， 平稳的， a steady job a steady income a steady rain a steady decline a steady stream of visitors However, there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives, and that is noise. invade 入侵 干扰 invade one’s thought Two unexpected guests invaded when we were quarrelling. 当我们在吵架的时候，两个不速之客贸然来访。 Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle. go off 炸弹在拥挤的大街上爆炸了。 The bomb went off in a crowded street. Suddenly the light went off. Car alarms con ... ...
