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Article1_W_essential1 Article1_W_essential2 Article1_W_essential2 Article1_W_apparently1 Article1_W_apparently2 in all likelihood = very probably In all likelihood the flight will be cancelled. Interest rates will come down further in all likelihood. There is much / every / no / little likelihood that he will be elected for the second term. Para 19 What is to be done? Para 20 First, we must save our forests, and even replant them. Para 21 Second, we must have new sources of fuel that do not involve the production of carbon dioxide. Nuclear power is one of them, but if that is thought too dangerous, there are other alternatives. There is the energy of waves, tides, wind, and the Earth’s interior heat. Most of all, there is the direct use of solar energy. Para 22 All of this will take time, work, and money, to be true, but nations spend more time, work, and money in order to support competing military machines that can only destroy us all. Should we object to spending less time, work, and money in order to save us all? Important Sentences 1. Plants absorb carbon dioxide and convert it into their own tissue, which serve as the basic food supply for all of animal life (including human beings, of course). In the process they liberate oxygen, which is also necessary for all animal life. 植物吸收二氧化碳，并将其转化成他们自己的组织，充当所有动物（当然也包括人类自己）的基本食物供给。在这一过程中，植物释放氧气，而氧气又是所有动物生命不可缺少的。 2. The sea level is rising very slowly from year to year. In all likelihood, it will continue to rise and do so at a greater rate in the course of the next hundred years. Where there are low-lying coastal areas (where a large fraction of the world’s population lives) the water will advance steadily, forcing people to retreat inland. 年复一年，海平面正在慢慢上升，而在今后数百年间，会以更快速度上升。在那些低洼的沿海地区（在这些地区居住很大一部分人口），海水会稳步向前推进，迫使人们向内陆退居。 Important Sentences 3. Florida will disappear beneath the waves, as will much of the British Isles, the crowded Nile valley, and the low-lying areas of China, India, and Russia