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.f.s (american foundryman's society)
adsorption equipment
advantages to direct selling
afirer
akinesias
alcohlic erythema
array of source
arrest sb.on a charge of
arrivances
balkan countries
be much more likely to suffer injury
beat it up!
Bettiah
cantuariensis
catalyst pore structure
Charlton City
chiral twinning
clap-hands
counter floor
crystallogphy
dialysis membrane reactor
disdainful
durn tooting
editis
ellipsoidal geoid
entractes
environmental releases
F-wave
feed-through cell
fern caterpillar
field biology
filaggrin
fin cooling
flingers
frequency response spectrum
generator routine
Glibornurid
globoser
governor
Herbertābād
histogram of binomial distribution
hoisting main contactor
houseward
hummin'
i-speke
inadequate stimulus
indigenate
inscribed debentures
Kirchhoff method
lactophenene
lamps and lanterns
Lithospermum officinale L.
little White House
logoscopy
low-temperature current
magnetic iron pyrite kroeberite
mecham
Medas, Is.
metalized carbon
multiple-ram press
murate
nephesh
network readiness testing
nutritionary
oblique seismic reflection configuration
oxifentorex
passive illusion
physarum gyrosum
Pico de Teide, Pico de Teyde
poppet ribband
potash lye
power failures
printed-circuit switch
program execution control
Pythagorism
quarters of refreshment
rate of manure
recovery of oil
reflejo
regular translation
roll-type grader
roy wilkinss
scavenging duct
scrutny
sek
spherical fuel handling system of htgr
swuling
tetramethylpyrazine
The bait hides the hook.
thermal ecology
thrust bearing cover
Tombini
touring
trigonal equatorial class
trt
undigging
unilateral signalflow
unilateralization
universal characteristic
unknown sigma variables plan
user program verification facility
vehicle remoulding