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each time you visit the grocery store? If you use them five or six times, or until they start falling apart, you have really done a good thing. You can also use them to line your small wastebaskets, instead of purchasing plastic trash bags. 【课文参考译文】
当我从旅馆乘车穿行城市前往会议中心时，映入眼帘的是无处不在的汽车和停车场。全世界的城市都陷入了困境，数以百计的城市日常生活的质量正在不断下降。在一些城市，每天呼吸空气等于抽两包香烟。每天上班族驱车时因街道和道路堵塞而寸步难行，耽搁的时间逐年升高，郁闷也随之加深。
针对上述情况，我们可以看到一种新城市主义的理念正在兴起。在短短的几年内，许多城市的人行道上不再允许停车，新建和改造了更多的停车场，建立了一套以公共汽车为基础的极为成功的快速运行系统，兴建了数百公里的自行车道和步行街，高峰时段的交通拥挤得以减缓，种植了更多的树木，并吸收当地市民直接参与社区的改善工作。城市设计以人为本的理念使这些城市的生活质量有了很大的提高。
现在，各地政府的规划者们都在尝试寻找为了人而不是为汽车设计城市的方法。汽车应带给人们活动的便捷。但是在一个不断城市化的世界里，存在着一个根深蒂固的矛盾，即汽车与城市之间的矛盾。超过一个临界点之后，随着汽车数量的累加，汽车提供的不再是便捷，而是停滞。
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基于这个观点，无论在发达的工业国家还是发展中国家，一些城市将会通过远离汽车来极大增加市区的通畅。让我再次提醒你，城市是为了人，不是为了汽车而建设的。挤满汽车的城市就像恐怖的科幻小说里描绘的——全是机械，没有人性。为了避免这场灾难，我们最好开始设计可持续发展的城市。 【参考答案】 阅读理解 1. (He takes) a bus.
2. Cars not only do harm to people's health but also cause heavy traffic jam.
3. Design cities for people not (for) cars. 4. Because people depend largely on cars. 5. There would be all cars (mechanism) no-human. 【练习参考答案】 A．汉译英
1. The demand for cars is soaring as growing numbers of citizens are pushed into distant suburbs.
2. The eco-city will combine elements of traditional design with the latest green technologies.
3. One thousand fuel-cell vehicles will be estimated to put to use by 2010 and increase to 10,000 by 2012.
4. These days, there is hardly a local government that does
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not talk about plans for an eco-village, town or even city.
5. It is fairly necessary to search for ways to reduce the environmental impact of cities because around half of the world's population is now city-dwellers (is now living in cities). B．英译汉
有一次在一家超市的收银处，我看到了一则发人深思的广告，上面写着：本店只用塑料袋。超市声称：事实上生产和运输同量纸袋所消耗的能源和所排放的废气的危害大大超过塑料袋不能进行生物降解的危害。而且纸袋占用的空间更大，需要更多的卡车运送。因此，超市认为使用塑料袋可以减少碳足迹。该告示促使我作了进一步的思考。为什么使用了塑料袋后，不能每次再去杂货店时带上重复使用呢？如果能用上五六次，或者用到破了为止，你岂不是做了一件大好事。你也可以把塑料袋铺在小垃圾筐里盛垃圾，而不用再买垃圾专用塑料袋。
UNIT 3 Population人口 Text
Read the text. Answer the given questions and translate the underlined sentences or paragraphs into Chinese.
A very important world problem is the increasing number of people who actually inhabit this planet. The limited amount of land and land resources will soon be unable to support the huge
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population if it continues to grow at its present rate.
So why is this huge increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and practice of what is becoming known as \Control\You have no doubt heard of the term \Control\ \Control\is something rather different. It recognizes the work of the doctors and scientists who now keep alive people who, not very long ago, would have died of a variety of then incurable diseases. Through a wide variety of technological innovations that \farming methods and the control of deadly diseases, we have found ways to reduce the rate at which we die. However, this success is the very cause of the greatest threat to mankind.
If we examine the amount of land available for this ever-increasing population, we begin to see the problem. If everyone on the planet had an equal share of land, we would each have about 50,000 square meters. This figure seems to be quite encouraging until we examine the amount of usable land we actually have. More than three-fifths of the world's land cannot produce food.
Obviously, with so little land to support us, we should be taking great care not to reduce it further. But we are not! Instead, we are consuming its \---its nonrenewable fossil fuels and other mineral deposits that took millions of years to form but which are
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now being destroyed in decades. We are also doing the same with other vital resources not usually thought of as being nonrenewable, such as fertile soils, groundwater and the millions of other species that share the earth with us.
1. What can be learnt about the population growth at present? 2. According to the article, what contributes to the population increase?
3. What is the doctors' job according to paragraph 2? 4. Why isn't there enough land to support human beings? 5. In paragraph 4 the fertile soils are considered as ___. Exercises
A. Translate the following sentences into English 1．亚洲大陆面积占世界陆地面积的29%。 2．人口的增加使土地必须生产更多的粮食。 3．我们应该先进行抽样调查再写报告。
4．我承认我在工作中因缺乏经验犯过这样那样的错误。 5．中国的现代化工业和商品经济的发展，促进了职业流动和人口流动。
B. Read the text and translate it into Chinese.
A report, based on United Nations projections showing slow, steady growth of economies and populations, suggests that by mid-century, humanity's demand on nature will be twice the
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