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。
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a-phellandrene
Aksubayevskiy Rayon
Amberlite(resin)
arouse sb's curiosity about sth
asphericity coefficient
assisted beam
Biougra
center base
chaining common variables
chemical-free
chief legislator
Chodogundo
chromosomal scaffold
Clark cell
classification catalogue
cloud image
counter-thrust
cross examining
cross-cutting chisel
cup wheel printer
deinstallations
depolarizers
description of compartments
Didymosporeae
digital data
digital data network
do sth of necessity
dolloping
Drewryville
drug fever
ductus semicircularis lateralis
dunnage planks
eaten on
environry
excitating current
eyewalls
faking
farriering
fire-watching
floatboard
Gentiana macrophylla
gravel pipe
gutling
guttadiaphot
hard mixed concrete
hardbounds
hot lists
HUVECs
iloveyou
inclined reel
independent variable (iv)
injection moulded plasitcs
international tanker service
jungle gyms
lawther
lucanus miwai
magnetic field of the earth
make a century
Mareva injunctions
margareth
mazio
mcgarvey
mechanization change request
MSME
mud belt
multimode
nearby anal bleeding
nematicon
neobrucine
ogled
order cydippideas
orthomorphic chart
Ottelia alismoides
oxidizing reagent
pancreatic ducts
pattern card cartridge
penetration probability
peniophora reidii
quenes
red 'un
Rokitansky-Aschoff sinus
single-part drawing
small-business finance
spilka
spindle-tree family
spirobolus bungii
statives
Stranraer
strong light
sub-out crop
summered
take one's own way
telegraphist
terriar
Texas pennies
total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy
tubular flow reactor
two-lobed
vehicle mile
Vicia hirsuta S. F. Gray
well-ordering structure
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