进阶大学英语第五单元课后练习答案

Key to Exercises

Opener

1.The speaker is talking about the coming global water crisis/water problem .

2.Water is the key component in our daily life, not only for human use, but for energy, industry, agriculture , and livestock.

3.If you look at the earth , you will notice that over 75 % of our blue planet is water. But the problem is only 3% of that water is fresh water .

Transcript:

Today, according to UNICEF, at least 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, while 1.1 billion people live without clean drinking water period. Water is the key component in all of our daily lives no matter where we live, not only for human use, but for energy, industry, agriculture, and livestock. Now if you look at the earth, you’ ll notice that over planet75%ofisourwaterblue. The problem is only 3% of that water is fresh water.

Reading & Interacting

I. Understanding the Text

1.Text

Organization 1.1

Paras. 1-2: We need to conserve water aggressively so that scientists can have time to

find solutions.

Paras. 3-7: Water is going to be the most important and most contentious resource of the 21st century.

Paras. 8-9: There are solutions, but they take time.

Para. 10: Aggressive conservation is needed to buy us time before scientists find solutions.

1.2

1)Water is on the way to becoming the most important resource of the 21st century.

Getting water right is the great challenge the world is confronted with. To meet the

challenge conservation should come first; then follow it up with new solutions.

2)To introduce the water problem, the author tells us about what happened one night when he

and his seven-year-old daughter were brushing teeth together. In so doing the author tries to

introduce the reader to a serious topic in a casual manner. Besides, it also reminds us of the

fact that everyone can play a role, even in our daily life, in saving water.

3)He cites the late Nobel Laureate Richard Smalley’ s list of humanity’ s top 10 problems for th next 50 years.

4)He wants to show the reader how difficult it is for us to find a solution to the water problem.

5)He repeats what he says at the beginning of the article: The water problem can be solved but

“ The scientists need time.”

2. Comprehension Check

2.1 Focusing on the main ideas

In his 2003 speech at Rice University Energy & Nanotechnology’s Conference, the late Nobel

Laureate Richard Smalley highlighted the top 10 problems for the next 50 years. In his

list, energy sits at the top, and water comes next. Now, with the price of solar power going down,

the dawn of a new energy era is just around the corner. As a result, water is going to be the

greatest challenge for humanity.

But the water problem is complicated . First, unlike coal and oil, water cannot be replaced.

Second, water is intertwined with every other sector of society. Third, while water demands are

growing, climate change is intensifying droughts and floods and water supplies are fluctuating .

There are solutions, such as building water-transfer aqueducts, hydroelectric dams, and

desalination plants. But they may be incredibly expensive. It will take time for scientists to find

affordable solutions to the water problem. Before that, everyone should do his or her bit

to conserve water.

1)He means that water is most likely to become a strategic resource like oil that could trigger

geopolitical conflict.

2)Because solving the energy and water problems will make the other problems easier to deal

with. Abundant energy and water supplies will increase food production and improve the

environment. They will also reduce poverty and disease, and so forth.

3)It most probably means energy produced at a low cost.

4)He means that every other sector of society needs water. People need water in their daily life.

Energy production requires water for cooling power plants. Industry needs water for all sorts of

purposes. Agriculture needs water for irrigation.

5)Yes, he did. Because he said getting freshwater from saltwater at a cheap price would dwarf all

other scientific accomplishments.

2.3 Understanding difficult sentences

1)A

2)B

3)A

4)A

5)A

II. Focusing on Language in Context

1.Key Words &

Expressions 1.1

1.It will be a close game. The outcome is hard to predict.

2.Travelers on a tight budget would choose to go there by train instead of by plane.

3.Tom was on the point of leaving the garden when he heard someone cry:“ Isn’ t it Tom? I can hardly believe my eyes.”

4.Innovation is what we need when we design new products.

5.The problem turned out to be far more complicated than he had foreseen .

6.The works in this room are mostly by local artists. They embody the artists’ vision of a peaceful and environment-friendly civilization .

7.Water, though abundant in Brazil, is extremely unevenly distributed among its regions.

8.Even today, my first English teacher’ s encouragiri ng wordsinmy earsstill .

9.Henry has many friends working in the government. His sources of information are

usually reliable .

10.These figures show that the death rate of road accident gets higher as the speed of the car

increases.

11.With water demand growing, the conflict between the two neighboring villages over water

has intensified over the years.

12.Years ago the professor said that there was no doubt that the people in this city would be

confronted with a water shortage, if not a water crisis. Subsequent events have proved his

predictions to be exactly right.

13.The TV program highlights the aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks.

1.2

1)around the corner

2)The money from her uncle enabled Jenny

3)dwarfs our old house

4)on track

5)and so forth

1.3

1.We believe that building a powerful navy is in the interest of our national defense.

2.He thought the coffee at breakfast was too sweet. It wasn’ t to his liking.

3.The new system is said to enable us to use much less oil than before, in other words,

to increase energy efficiency considerably.

4.Speaking of the real estate market, when people are losing their jobs, it is almost certain that

the house prices will go down .

5.A regional conference on the conservation of fishery resources will be held in Seoul next week.

2.Confusable

Words 2.1

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/e31403987.html,bor Day in the US falls on the first Monday in September.

2.The speaker seemed a little nervous at first , but after a short while became relaxed.

3.You want to learn making Chinese dumplings? First of all, let me show you how to make dough.

4.It was sunny but cool when we started. So the journey was quite pleasant at first . Then all of a

sudden there came a thunderstorm.

2.2

1.Canada is a country rich in natural resources.

2.The travelers walked upstream until they reached the source of the river.

3.So far there has been no response from official sources.

4.With such limited resources, the manager has been doing remarkably well to keep the

organization going.

3.Sentence Patterns

3.1

1.The fact that he has fully recovered from his bad accident shows that medicine can work

wonders.

2.The reason (that) businesses are moving their plants to developing countries is that labor

costs in their home countries are too high.

3.If we go on ignoring the fact that our rivers are running dry or being polluted, the

consequences will not be hard to predict.

4.The reason (that) food prices are rising is that last year’ s crop wasn’ t good.

3.2

1.Whether the chicken came before the egg, or the egg before the chicken, is a question of how

life began in general.

2.I saw her on the point of tears when she got the result of the exam. I don’ t know whether should go to comfort her or just leave her alone.

3.It’ s not clear whether she still wants to go to the lake or has changed her mind.

4.Many young married couples are wondering whether they should buy or just rent an

apartment.

4. Comprehensive Practice

1. A:Why will oil cease to be the No. 1 problem of our time?

B:The dawn of a new energy era is just around the corner . Oil prices are going down because

solar power is becoming cheaper. Besides, improvements in energy efficiency , while helping to

create a clean environment , are reducing waste and the demand for oil.

2. A:Why isn’ t it easy to solve the water problem?

B:Because water is far more complicated than energy. No other resource can replace water, so

it is impossible to find an alternative to it. Besides, water demand is rising, but water supply is

fluctuating as a result of climate change.

3. A:Why is it important for us to conserve water?

B:Water is going to be the most contentious resource of the 21st century. It will trigger

geopolitical conflicts . That ’ s why waterconservation is not only in the interest of our economy

but also a task of strategic importance.

Reading & Comprehending

Reading 1

1. Comprehension Check for Reading 1

1)T

2)F

3)T

4)F

5)T

6)T

7)T

8)T

9)F

10)T

2. Translation

1.地球的水只有不到3%是淡水，并且大部分都被堵在雪地和冰川中，不容易获取。

2.??但不幸的是，许多因素严重扰乱了淡水的流动和使用，使地球的许多地区出现大面积

的危机。

3.这意味着如果我们在保护水和明智用水方面无所作为，所有地区迟早都将遭遇水危机及随之而来的影响。

4.绝不要以为你所处的社会先进，不至于会出现缺水问题。

Reading 2

Comprehension Check for Reading 2

1.Pollution and scarcity.

2.The sources of pollution include manufacturing emissions, poorly treated sewage, industrial spills and agricultural runoff.

3.It means that the water problem did not happen overnight; instead it resulted from our age-old practice of polluting water or wasting water in addition to natural contamination and

natural disasters.

4.A sustainable, long-term solution.

Integrated Skills Practicing

I. Viewing & Listening

1)Segment 1

Consider the Aral Sea, for example, located in central Asia. The name Aral Sea is actually

translated into“ Sea of Islands” , referring to over 1,534 islands that once existed. Today the Aral

Sea is down to 10% of its original size. The same thing is happening in other areas that were once

flourishing (but) are now turning into desert .

2)Segment 2

In the U.S., the world’ s largest body of freshwater, the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake

that extends from the Colorado Rockies to South Dakota going all the way down to the Texas

Panhandle with a range of 50 to 300 feet of depth. This water resource is what has made

America ’ s plains thebread basket“ ” of the world. Unfortunately, like an oil well, this won’ t last

forever . The Ogallala used to have an average depth of 240 feet. Today its average depth is

just 80 feet .

3)Segment 3

What once was a booming town that relied on the Ogallala Aquifer, has now seen its depths of

underground water fall between 0-50 feet. Many wells are completely dry and farmers have

been forced to hand over their land to the government’ s Conservation Reserve Program(CRP) in

exchange for grants.

4)Segment 4

Consider the Colorado river as well, a river that used to run into the Pacific. Not anymore . By the

time the water fills the pools of Vegas and irrigates and provides drinking water throughout the

west, not a drop of water makes it to the ocean.

Transcript:

Today, according to UNICEF, at least 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation, while 1.1

billion people live without clean drinking water period. Water is the key component in all of our

daily lives no matter where we live, not only for human use, but for energy, industry, agriculture,

and livestock. Now if you look at the earth, you’ ll notice that over 75% of our blue planet is water.

more countries and most of these rivers are without defined legal or institutional arrangements.

Consider the Aral Sea, for example, located in central Asia. The name Aral Sea is actually

translated into“ Sea of Islands” , referring to over 1,534 islands that once existh e dAral.Today t

Sea is down to 10% of its original size. The same thing is happening in other areas that were once

flourishing (but) are now turning into desert. A report titled“ Avoiding Water Wars: Water Scarcity and Central Asia’ s Growing Importance for Stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan

recently done by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In it, it focused on rising water

tensions that could destabilize central and south Asia. The implications of a water shortage has

already caused aggravated demand for agriculture and power generation according to the report.

Water, without a doubt, is going to be a huge issue along with oil throughout this century. In the

U.S., the world ’ s largest body of freshwater, the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground lake that

extends from the Colorado Rockies to South Dakota going all the way down to the Texas

Panhandle with a range of 50 to 300 feet of depth. This water resource is what has made

America ’ s plains the“ bread basket” of the world. Unfortunately, like an oil well, this won

forever. The Ogallala used to have an average depth of 240 feet. Today its average depth is just

80 feet. Recently a story done in Texas, about a town named Happy, who has simply run out of

water for its farms. What once was a booming town that relied on the Ogallala Aquifer, has now

seen its depths of underground water fall between 0-50 feet. Many wells are completely dry and

farmers have been forced to hand over their land to the government’ s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in exchange for grants. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently stated,“ The supply is going to run out and the plains will become uneconomical to farm.” 60 years is what U.S. Department of Agriculture gives it. This is a scary thought when you think about the way we

have built cities, towns, and homes around something that is simply unsustainable. Consider the

Colorado river as well, a river that used to run into the Pacific. Not anymore. By the time the water

fills the pools of Vegas and irrigates and provides drinking water throughout the west, not

a drop of water makes it to the ocean. Of course we can’ t help but comment on how it is the government who has centrally planned people to live in the middle of nowhere, to live in deserts.

If a free market would have reigned, we would see a much more practical living condition with

very little“ middle of the desert living,” not only relying on cheap oil, but the relocation of

about how in some places in Africa so much water has been pulled out of the ecosystem in order

to bottle it and send it around the world, some towns have become deserts. As the world

population grows, the water crisis will become front page news. According to the consulting

company McKinsey & Company, by 2030 global water demand will be 40% greater than today’ s “ accessible, reliable, environmentally sustainable supply.” https://www.sodocs.net/doc/e31403987.html, members should have no doubt that this is 100% tied into agriculture and rising food price inflation. 71% of

global water withdrawals today go to irrigating our food. The U.S. government has screwed us

with subsidies that are handed out to farmers who plant in areas that need an excessive amount

of water. Subsidies are also handed out in misguided attempts to turn food into fuel, something

that in our opinion is not only driving food costs up, but is wasting precious water resources. Like oil,

it takes water for many goods. A cotton T-Shirt, 400 gallons; denim jeans, 1,800 gallons; a car,

39,000 gallons; a board of lumber, 5.4 gallons; a barrel of beer, 1,500 gallons; a gallon of paint,

12 gallons; one ton of steel, 62,000 gallons; a piece of paper, 2.6 gallons. Consider how much

water it takes to grow our food, feed our animals, and ourselves.

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