现代大学英语精读(第二版)Unit-5-课后手打答案

1、Unit 51 distribute wealth2. drill a hole3 drive the turbine4 refine/extract oil5 invite disaster6 irrigate land7 squander money8 sustain river deltas and9 sweep globe10 drain/remove sewage11 save water12 conserve oil13 satisfy the demands/meet the demands14 harness rivers andlakeswetlands1无法满足的需求2不明

2、智的补救方法3地下水水位4已经断流的河流5饥荒，瘟疫与大规模移民6供给与需求7大澡盆，电淋浴与抽水马桶8作物品种9灌溉区10物质不灭定律/质量守恒定律11海水淡化12供不应求，超过需求13濒危物种14冷却系统15火电3 Replace1 becoming terribly scarce, keep squandering, inviting disasters2 are at a loss as what to do with, meet the insatiable demands3 desalinate,expensive,requireselaborate/sophisticated a

3、pparatus4 famines, pestilence, sweep the globe5 overblown, remedies, ill-conceived, is bound to/ issure or certain to/ is destined to6 routine, frequently7 in due course/ gradually, bring supply and demandinto equilibrium8 perforated, aquifers, falling, glaciers, vanishing,4 Translate1. Statistics s

4、how that China has a total amount of 2.8 trillion cubic meters of water resource, second only to Brazil, Russia and Canada, ranking the fourth (to be updated) in the world. But when divided by 1.3 billion, our average per-capita share of water resource only amounts to about one quarter of the world

5、' s avera ge.2. We have always been heavily burden with the problemof water shortage. It is saidthat the 661 large andmedium-sized cities nationwide, about two-thirds are suffering from acute shortage of water. Beijing is a good example in point . It not only lacks surface water, even its underg

6、round water is dangerously low.It is reported to have dropped by 90 meters. Some scholars suggest we move our capital to some other place. This is of course unfeasible/ unrealistic, but the message is clear.3. Our water resources first of all are not evenly distributed in time or space. They are eit

7、her too much, causing floods, or too little, causing droughts.4. In spite of the impressive progress we have achieved in the past years, we are still far from effectively harnessing our rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. Soilerosion and desertificationare increasinglythreatening our economy and people &

8、#39; s life. Many of our rivers no longer flow to the sea. In 1998, theYellow River failed to have enough water to flow to the sea for 212 days.5. Traditionally, our water resources have mainly been used to irrigate land but, in recent years, demands on water for industrial and domestic use have als

9、obeen sharply on the rise. They have seriously outgrown supplies.6. Today our scarce water resources are becoming even scarcer because a lot of water is being wasted on capacious power showers, flush lavatories, and golf rinks. Moreover, a lot of water being polluted.7. These two rivers both have th

10、eir headwater in the country. It therefore makes water an issue for potential serious dispute between the two countries.8. In recent years, we have pinned great hopes on the projects to divert water from the south to the north, hopping that it will once and for all solve our flood problem in the sou

11、th and the drought problem in thenorth. But there are scholars whose opinions differ. They warn us that immunity of the Yangtze to droughts cannot be taken for granted.1 with better medical care, my grandfather could havelived to eighty.2 even at a gunpoint I would n' t renounce my beliefs.3 Fur

12、ther delay would cause us even greater loss.4. But for the seatbelt, she would have been severely injured in the acctident.5 A manwithout a strong sense of justice wouldn' t have brought the matter up.6 Without an experienced guide like her, we might have been trapped in the jungle.7 I wonder how many of us would have done the same inhis position8 With a more sophisticated computer, we would have completed the project much sooner.9 Without a strong will,