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Translation我们必须为子孙后代保护林地。(conserve)

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我发现当地的饮食很合我的口味。(to one’s liking)

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Water is on track to be the most important and most contentious resource of the 21st century. In the end, we can solve the water problem.

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That statement still rings in my ears today, not only because of her precociousness but also because she was exactly right. We need to conserve our resources to buy ourselves time so scientists can find new solutions to our problems. And this is especially true for water.

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Rewrite the following sentences, using the given sentence patterns in the brackets.He has fully recovered from his bad accident. This shows thatmedicine can work wonders.(... the fact that...)

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Last year’s crop wasn’t good. That’s why food prices are rising.(... the reason that/ why...)

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Did the chicken come before the egg, or the egg before the chicken? This is a question of how life began in general.(whether... or...)

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Does she still want to go to the lake? Or has she changed her mind? It’s not clear.(whether... or...)

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1.Replace the underlined partA.enable B.dwarf our old house C.on track D. and so forth E. around the corner1. You see the lights in the students’ reading room? They never go out at night these days because the final exams aredrawing near.( )2.Atthat time the working class was too small to make a successful revolutionthere.( )3. The high-rise building in the back makesour old house seemsmall.（）4. The figures show that our economy is healthy and we are likelyto achieve sustainable and balanced (平衡的) growth. ( )5. The two girls spent the whole night planning the summer events, get-togethers, dinner parties, and many other things of the kind. ( )

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2. ClozeA. abundantB. complicatedC. conflictD. confrontedE. distributedF. environmentG. highlightH. innovationI. intensifiedJ. outcomeK. rateL. reliableM. replaceN. sourceO. subsequentWater is life. We depend on it to keep us and the 1 healthy. Nonetheless, many people take water as a natural resource for granted. Today, the situation has changed. As the population of the world increases, and with it the demand for water, there is growing concern that our water supplies will not be as 2 as we think. Eighty countries now have water shortages and 2 billion people lack access to clean water. One billion people lack enough water to supply meet their basic needs.While nearly 70 percent of the world is covered by water, only 2.5 percent of it is fresh. This tiny amount of fresh water available on the planet has remained fairly constant over time and is 3 unevenly around the world. The growth of the world population, therefore, 4 competition for a clean supply of water every year. Worse still, humans are not efficient users. According to the United Nations, water use has grown at more than twice the 5 of population increase in the last century. The reality is that an increasing number of regions are 6 with water scarcity. By 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population may face water shortage.An adequate and 7 water supply is essential to the future of every country. To increase and conserve supplies of fresh water, many countries have been working at technological 8 , one of which is in the process of desalination. New filtration systems have been developed to 9 traditional heating methods. Thus the expected 10 can be achieved: lower costs.

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