伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

L47-1: Too high a price?

Pollutionis the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet.

When you come to think about it,

there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish:

dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again,

attempt to produce less of it.

We keep trying all four methods,

but the sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.

Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem of polluting our planet.

The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.

Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products: beef, pork and chicken.

The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables.

The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high: Mad CowDisease(BSE) incattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs,

and listeria in dairy products.

And if you think you'll abandon meat and become avegetarian,

you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables,

or just having aninnocent glass of water!

However,

there is an even more insidious kind of pollution that particularly affects urban areas and invades our daily lives,

and that is noise.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：Pollution/pəˈluʃən    methods/mɛθədz    sheer/ʃɪr    volume/vɑljum    threatens/θrɛtənz    overwhelm/oʊvərˈwɛlm    pesticides/pɛstəˌsaɪdz    fertilizers/fɜrtəˌlaɪzərz    cattle/kætəl    Disease/dɪˈziz    vegetarian/vɛʤəˈtɛriən   organically-grown/ɔrˈgænɪkli-groʊn    steady/stɛdi    diet/daɪət    innocent/ɪnəsənt    insidious/ɪnˈsɪdiəs    affectsəˈfɛkts/    urban/ɜrbən    invades/ɪnˈveɪdz   

练习感悟：再次超时，早上用时1小时，中午接着用了1小时，到了晚上又用了1小时，这大段实在难住我了。后面大半段真的拗口，最后一版还是有许多错误地方，没有再修改，时间用太多。