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
-pentol
Acetylsulfametopyrazine
Amlash
ayliffes
barometer methods
bear bond
Bissendorf
black lead first coating anticorrosive
bougle
carboxymethylcelluloses
Carex phacota
catarinite
cicatrical
cleft chin
Colombes
concurrent control count
connater
constant speed governor
costal fracture
country club management
crab
cross-picketing
culiseta
diagonal planes of polyhedron
diethyl fumarate
donna karan
emotional disturbances
end point of fraction
enquiry-clause
evernitrose
faciles
filter type smokemeter
fishing lure
fluorescein isothiocyanates
fudge you
full test
gravitoinertial
ichthyn
impact angle
jake leg
kalpakian
karroubi
kilo-mega-bit
kucci
Laidon, Loch
last year
Leales
lecherer
limited government
lin.
liquidic matrix-addressed display
local anisotropy
lome convention
luminaire pressure watertight
mark recording
microtibiala
moisture suction
moment of overturning
monosize distribution
Moreau
needle point method
number of cycles of cracking
Nystatina
organizational effectiveness
Orthoraphium roylei
oxygen corrosion
papaverrubine b
portable roller beam
position angles
prescanned
programming control
re-store
relativistic particle
relns
rhomb-
salimbeni
second moment of area
snogger
spatial value
specifically labeled compound
Spilamberto
Spirochaeta marchouxi
star catalog(ue)
subclass Amphineura
swelling ground
tautogram
thermoelectrical power plant
three-stage coutercurrent reactor
time-composition curve
tough spot
traction track isolator
transpose of relation
upright brome
ursus arctos inabellinus
vane sensor
Vernonia volkameriifolia
Vyazemskiy
Westbury Beds
whustle
wind squall
wolery
woodchips