共用题干第二篇Preserving Nature for Future

共用题干

第二篇

Preserving Nature for Future

Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt
in the rest of Europe.Studies by the Council of Europe,of which 21 counties are members,have shown that
45 percent of reptile（爬行类的）species and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of dying out.
European concern for wildlife was outlined by Dr. Peter Baum,an expert in the environment and natural
resources division of the council,when he spoke at a conference arranged by the administrators of a British
national park.The park is one of the few areas in Europe to hold the council’s diploma for nature reserves of
the highest quality,and Dr. Peter Baum had come to present it to the park once again.He was afraid that
public opinion was turning against national parks,and that those set up in the 1960s nd 1970s could not be
set up today. But Dr. Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that natural environments’ needed
to be allowed to survive in peace in their own right.
"No area could be expected to survive both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction,"he went
on. The short-sighted（眼光短浅的）view that reserves had to serve immediate human demands for outdoor
recreation should be replaced by full acceptance of their importance as places to preserve nature for the fu-
ture.
"We forget that they are the guarantee of life systems,on which any built-up area ultimately depends,"
Dr. Baum went on,"We could manage without most industrial products,but we could not manage without
nature.However,our. natural environment areas,which are the original parts of our countryside,have shrunk
to become mere（纯粹的）islands in a spoiled and highly polluted land mass."

The last sentence in the second paragraph implies that______. A:people should make every effort to create mere environment areas B:people would go on protecting national parks C:certain areas of countryside should be left intact D:people would defend the right to develop the areas around national parks