时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Last week, the Minister of Conservation, Nick Smith, gave permission for a new open-cast coal mine on conservation land on the West Coast. The Environment Court last month said it would probably give permission for the mine.


  Now the Forest and Bird organisation 1 is going to the High Court to fight this. Forest and Bird members say that a coal mine could kill endangered animals like the Great Spotted 2 Kiwi. Also conservation land is for everyone to enjoy, not for industry.
  The new mine would be on the Denniston plateau, 14 km north of Westport. Already there is an open-cast coal mine at Stockton, 35 km north of Westport.
  The owners of the mine say that an open-cast mine would bring 225 jobs and put about $30m into the local economy. There are many unemployed 3 people, including coal miners, on the West Coast.
  Coal will be shipped from the port at Westport to Asia, especially to China, where it is used for making steel.
  Vocabulary
  ?to give permission – to say ‘yes’
  ?open-cast mine – not underground.
  ?conservation – protecting the environment
  ?endangered – in danger of becoming extinct
  ?plateau – flat area on top of a hill
  Questions
  1.Is it possible to protect forests and birds where there is a coal mine?
  2.What is more important – jobs or protecting the environment?
  3.Coal is a fossil fuel which produces carbon when it is burned. If New Zealand mines coal and China burns coal, which country should pay for carbon credits?
  4.What are the advantages and disadvantages of open-cast coal mining?

n.组织,安排,团体,有机休
  • The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
  • His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
adj.失业的,没有工作的;未动用的,闲置的
  • There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
  • The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。
学英语单词
A-optimal design
agnoea
aircraft propulsion reactor
anoectangium troguescens mitt.
anti-rejection
aperitivoes
aristolochias
auto-radar
ballstone
Bernina, V.
beuthen (bytom)
bishopdoms
Blanc, Mont
bourride
business transaction valocity
C. O. I.
Cape Tormentine
capital graph
chart paper inhomogeneity
compound rest top
cyres
delay no more
delic
Delphinium majus
detached binaries
device structures and technology
diagnostic programme
disembowellings
documents after acceptance
dovetree
drawworks drum speeds
drye
El Azufre
epsilon globin
false aggregate
fiber diffraction
foo-foo juice
gain stroke wheel
genetic pharmacology
gyrotrochoid
heat value of mixture
hierarchy segment theorem
jeffs
Kipperbrown
latin-from
lattice array
LEPTOLEPIDIFORMES
lloyd's form-general average deposit receipt
machine identification
Madhya Bhārat, United State of
Maisach
manoeuverability
massingberds
Master of Laws
maximum permissible exposer
micros.
moonrats
morbus coxarius
nanotexturing
nasms
Odinists
official regain
open one's heart to
over-race
paliform lobe
pressure pin
pyramido-anterior tract
quasi-hypobolic reflector
R-coloured vowel
raw clay
reference monitor
replace stress
rigid hull
ring of formal power series
runner of edge mill
San Cristóbal, Vol.
satsuma bairdi
sequential polymerization
Severo-Dvinskiy Kanal
side intrusion bar
snow alga
stacked array
stratospheric dynamics
stressedskin
supertonic seventh chord
taking shape
True Confession
two-phase locking protocol
uncompensated flowmeter
untweakable
up-to symbol
Vecchi
vetoer
Vic-le-Comte
visual scoring
weaners
wear test
weiskrantzs
wind charger
Yibā, Wādī
zoogloeas