Humankind’s future safety and longevity of life on Earth largely depend on the environment which we live. Keeping the air we __1__ breathe free of pollution is a major priority towards making this earth a safe place. Other areas of concern are water, land, the ozone layer, and the preservation of flora and fauna of the planet.
Every country has ecological issues to deal. In South America, __2__ the rain forests are rapidly disappearing as people burn and cut down trees to make for farmland. Many Middle-Eastern and Asian countries __3__ have a battle to fight with air, water, and land pollution. Lakes and swamps are spread with debris. __4__ Mass chemical spraying is used to kill pests on trees and plants. Abundant __5__ use of water in countries as China has caused major water shortage. __6__ Rivers become polluted by factories and the populations that live on their banks. Global warming is considered a major factor caused __7__ the droughts in eastern China, the Sudan, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya.
The reduction of the ozone layer is blamed for the global warming trends in variant countries of this globe, and the spread of disease like skin __8__ cancer. Societies at large need to pay attention to the existing problems in order to get of the imminent danger of famine, drought and diseases __9__ that rise from the damage that pollution causes. __10__
參考答案及解析：
1.^which-in 此處的介詞其實是和live連用的，live in the environment。
^-with。deal with是固定搭配，意思是“解決，處理”。
^-way。根據上下文可以斷定此處文章要說的是“人們燒，伐樹木爲的是給開墾農田讓路。”make way for something。是“給……讓路”，符合此處需要的意思。
ad-polluted/littered。這裏的關鍵是要知道debris的.意思是“碎片，殘骸等”，所以根據上下文這裏的意思是“湖泊和溼地被一些碎片殘骸所污染或弄得凌亂不堪”才符合邏輯。
5.^Abundan-the。此處不是泛指，而是特指，所以要有定冠詞。
-like。此處是拿中國舉例，所以要用介詞like“像……一樣”。
e-causing。此處定於分句是主動的意義。
ant改爲various。variant是“變體的，變種的”，而various表示“不同的”，符合此處意思。
^of-rid。固定搭配get rid of 是“擺脫”的意思。
-arise
part 2More people die of tuberculosis than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while.
During the __1__ early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh __2__ deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the disease.
From __3__ now on, though, western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble __4__ going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and __5__ 20th centuries.
In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to __6__ poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid1980s the frequency of infections and deaths __7__ started to pick up again around the world.
Where tuberculosis vanished, it came __8__ back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better.
The World __9__ Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population)suffer from tuberculosis.
Even when the infection rate was falling, population growth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 __10__ million a year. Around 3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor countries.
參考答案及解析:
tuberculosis n.肺結核
antibiotics n.抗生素, 抗生學
1 將in改爲for
for quite a while 作 “相當長時間”講.
2 將seventh改爲seven
3 將were改爲was
這個謂語動詞的主語是單數短語 one in every seven deaths, 因此要使用單數.
4將now 改爲then
5將Europe前的the 去掉
6 將imported改爲exported
根據上下文,應該是向窮國出口抗生素,而不是從這些國家進口抗生素.
7 將are 改爲were
8 在vanished 前加had
這裏要表達的是 “結核病原來消失的地方,又爆發了結核病”,所以要使用過去完成時.
9 將better改爲worse
在結合病沒有消失的地方,這種病更加嚴重了,因此要用worse.
10 將constantly改爲constant
在 “keep sb/ sth adj”結構中的形容詞作補語
