19-8-27 【地道美语113】 Amazon forest fires “地球之肺”在燃烧，亚马逊雨林大火

为人类供氧的“地球之肺”亚马逊雨林正在以前所未有的速度燃烧，烟雾甚至蔓延到了三千公里以外的地区，热带植被树木和栖息的动植物化为灰烬，多地四季交替或将消失。2019成为观察到火灾最多的一年，数据同比增长84%，气候变暖、人为滥砍滥伐，以及全球对牛肉大豆需求的增长被认为是火灾主因。【地道美语】聚焦巴西，和全世界一起关注#地球生态环境# 祈福#亚马逊#

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Jingjing: Mark, have you been reading anything about the ------- in the Amazon?

Mark: You mean the river?

Jingjing: No, I mean the------------—Amazonia.  There are -----more fires thisyear.

Mark: Wow, that's a --------.  How are these fires starting?

Jingjing: People are arguing about that right now.  It's the ---------- now. Also, Brazil has -----------  So, when land gets --------, ittypically gets used for-------------.

Mark: What a pity.  -------------------------

Jingjing: That's right.  So the land will be------ and won't do as much forthe--------------

Mark: I read somewhere that rainforests produce ---------------------

Jingjing: Yes.  Even if it's just a ------- the rainforests that aredestroyed, it's a ------------the entire world.

Mark: I know.  -We're pretty close to a point of ----------------

Jingjing: What do you mean?

Mark: Well, if the earth's temperature -----------, trees will shut down—thatmeans no photosynthesis, and no ------------ the atmosphere for longer periodseach year.  That would make------- happen faster and faster, possibly----------------

Jingjing: That's a--------- idea.  I believe the Earth has lots of ways of -----------------

Mark: Yeah, the Earth will probably be fine.

Jingjing: Hopefully humans can===== also.

Mark: Exactly.

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Jingjing: Mark, have you ever been to a --------------?

Mark: I've not been to --------- or anywhere with a ---------------.  Haveyou?

Jingjing: No, but I'd love to go—not when there's a forest fire, obviously. ------------ison my list of places to visit.

Mark: Same here.  Actually, where I lived in the US was a -----------. Lots of it was cleared for --------.  But there were ---------- thathad the ------------------- forests.

Jingjing: Wow.  There must be lots of--------------

Mark: There are.  They make a canopy.  So, even on a -------- youcould go into the forest and be ------------------

Jingjing: It'd be great to have that.  No wonder you like-----------so much. You grew up surrounded --------------

Mark: I was lucky that way.  I also got up into -----------, where thereare huge rainforests north-west of ----------------

Jingjing: Isn't that also where there are lots of----------every year?

Mark: There are a few forest fires--------------there.  But most of the firesare in ---------------------------------

Jingjing: Yeah, every summer, I hear about them in ---------.  --------------------

Mark: I know.  Living in a forest is a great idea, but maybe not --------------andis prone to fires.

Jingjing: Right.  It's --------- to fight those fires once they get ----------------------

Mark: It sure is.  I heard an interview on the radio of a firefighter who -----------------while he was off fighting a fire in another area.

Jingjing: Geez.  That'd be a hard choice to make. -------------------

Mark: Yeah. ----------

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beefindustry  companies raising cows and selling meat

rainforest land covered with tall trees and many other kinds of plants (These areasproduce their own rain.)

photosynthesis the process by which plants use sunlight and CO2 to produce oxygen

atmosphere the air all around the Earth

globalclimate change  rising temperatures in the atmosphere and oceans, meltingpolar ice caps, droughts and floods

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oldgrowth forest  woodland that has never been cleared by humans, usuallywith big trees, many of which have lived for hundreds of years

canopy a covering above an outdoor area (for a forest, this means that thetopmost branches of trees are all at the same height, forming a roof for theforest)

mountainrange  a large number of mountains forming a chain (usually, the climateis different on each side of the mountain range, as with the Pacific Crest,where the coastal side is lush and the inland side is a high desert)

charcoal black, burned wood

blaze fire that is burning fiercely at very a high temperature