江西省赣州市
2024
届
普通高等学校招生考前第三次模拟
英语试卷
第一部分
听力
(
略
)
第二部分
阅读
(
共两节,满分
50
分
)
第一节
(
共
15
小题
;
每小题
2.5
分,满分
37.5
分
)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的
A
、
B
、
C
、
D
四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
These four people from around the world prove that, together, we can reshape the future of our planet.
Diane Wilson
In December 2019, Diane Wilson won a landmark case against Formosa Plastics, one of the world’s largest plastic companies, for getting rid of poisonous plastic waste illegally on Texas’ Gulf Coast. The $50 million settlement is the largest award in a citizen suit against an industrial polluter in the history of the US Clean Water Act. As a part of the settlement, Formosa Plastics agreed to stop throwing away plastic waste and fund remediation (
补救
) of affected local wetlands, beaches, and waterways.
Delima Silalahi
Delima Silalahi led a campaign to secure legal control of 17,824 acres of tropical (
热带的
) forest land for six indigenous communities in North Sumatra, Indonesia. Her community’s activism reclaimed this territory from a pulp (
纸浆
) and paper company. The six communities have begun restoring the forests, creating valuable carbon sinks of biodiverse Indonesian tropical forest.
Tero Mustonen
Since April 2018, Tero Mustonen has led the restoration of 62 severely destroyed former industrial peat (
泥炭
) mining and forestry sites throughout Finland—totaling 86,000 acres—and transformed them into productive, biodiverse wetlands and habitats. Rich in organic matter, peatlands are highly effective carbon sinks. Roughly one-third of Finland’s surface area is made up of peatlands.
Alessandra Korap Munduruku
Alessandra Korap Munduruku organised community efforts to stop mining development by
British mining company Anglo American in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. In May 2021, the company formally committed itself to withdrawing 27 approved research applications to mine inside indigenous territories, incl
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