2019年高级中学教师资格证英语笔试大纲（最新发布）(5)

　　Humans further complicate their lives by allowing businesses to release pollutants in urban areas, in the name of profit. “Accidents” often take place at refineries where toxic fumes are released into the air that people and animals breathe. Pesticides are so widely used and pose such a threat that it is amazing all of them haven’t been banned.

　　Governments, anxious to appease money-hungry corporations and their stockholders, have allowed timber companies into National Forests to cut virgin-growth trees. Most of these businesses clear cut vast areas and often wait an inordinate amount of time to replant.

　　Burning questions never cease: When will governments—local, state, and federal—corporations, and the rest of the human race realize what is happening to this planet? When will the race for profit cease to consume them? Perhaps it will come about when there is no land left to farm and feed the burgeoning population, or there is no clean water left to drink, or wildlife to balance the ecosystem, or, more importantly, when their children start dying. By that time, however, it probably will be too late.

　　1.In Paragraph 1, “another nail in their coffin” is similar in meaning to______.

　　A.a bad luck B.going dead

　　C.a blessing in disguise D.going from bad to worse

　　2.The author purposefully capitalizes the initial letters of Mother Nature because ______.

　　A.the author is clearly being sarcastic and suggesting that human beings show no respect for the nature

　　B.the author wants to emphasize the point that nature, like our mother, provides us with nourishment

　　C.they are used here as a proper noun personifying the might power of nature

　　D.they are words of very special importance

　　3.The author implies that travelling one-to-a-car______.

　　A.is an environmentally-friendly travel option

　　B.should be discouraged

　　C.should be encouraged

　　D.should be punished

　　Transcribe the sound represented by the underlined letter(s) in the words and then describe it. (10 points)

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