,Exercises,111Reading Comprehension,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Exercises,Vocabulary,Cloze,Translation,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,1. What happened to the ship Titanic on April 15, 1912? Why is the story quoted at the beginning of the article?,The Titanic grazed an iceberg in the North Atlantic and then sank with a loss of over 1,500 lives. The authors use the tale of the Titanic as an analogy of the reality we now face: our inability to comprehend the scale of the ongoing degradation of the planet and how it will affect our future.,Reference,Ex. I, p.85,2. What, according to the passage, is the first step to save Planet Earth from the environmental jeopardy?,The first step is to wake up to the dimensions of the worlds environmental problems.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,Because in the 20 years following the meeting, a worldwide environmental movement began, the emergence of thousands of grass-roots environmental organizations surfaced, and the proliferation of environmental laws and regulations in nations around the world have been put in place.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,3. Why do the authors regard the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in 1972 as the milestone at the global level?,The Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, no longer catches fire, and swimming has resumed in some of the Great Lakes. Air quality has improved in Tokyo and in many northern European cities as well. Soil erosion has slowed on U.S. cropland.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,4. What are the scattered success stories of environmental progress since the Stockholm conference?,Many environmental problems can be found outside of the “post-industrial” North. For example, epidemics of environmental disease in some regions of eastern Europe; misuse of water resources in South Asia; soil erosion in Africa; Perus inability to provide clean water for its people; and air pollution that has become life threatening in Mexico City.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,5. What kind of environmental problems can be found outside of the “post-industrial” North?,Because in the poor areas, environmental quality is more than a question of the quality of life; it is often a matter of life or death.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,6. Why do the authors disagree with the view that environmental concerns are the “luxury problems” that could only be dealt with by rich nations?,The reason may partially lie in the failure to alter the basic patterns of human activity that cause environmental deterioration.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,7. What, according to the authors, is the main reason for winning battles but losing the war on the issue of environmental protection?,A sustainable society is one that satisfies its needs without jeopardizing the prospects of future generations. To achieve this, we must change our world views focusing less on the short-term financial bottom line and more on the long-term sustainability of the economies.,Reference,Unit 5: Reading Comprehension,8. How do the authors define “a sustainable society”? What kind of effort is required to create such a society?,Ex. II, p.86,This is an argumentative essay in which Brown, Flavin and Postel try to call on the awareness of environmental crisis on the planet. Try to find the thesis of the essay and the central argument of each part as the subtitles suggests.,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,Argument 3: (Paras. 1823),Thesis,Argument 1: (Paras. 813),Argument 2: (Paras. 1417),Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,Thesis,_,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,Saving Planet Earth will require going beyond the denial of reality, and it also hinges on the collective capacity and will quickly make the transition from perception to policy change.,Argument 1: (Paras. 813),_,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,Although much effort has been made, the progress in environmental protection is rather rare.,Argument 2: (Paras. 1417),_,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,Despite increased awareness, the health of the planet has deteriorated at an unprecedented rate.,Argument 3: (Paras. 1823),_,Structure and Style,Unit 5: Structure and Style,A sustainable society without jeopardizing the prospects of future generations is one that we are aiming for.,Part A, Ex. V, p.87 Complete the sentences with words given below, making sure that each wo