综合英语第四册3-12-Part 2.ppt

6. What should the producers and the customers do to protect the environment? In Professor Maathais opinion, investors in poor countries should not take advantage of the local peoples ignorance, poverty and powerlessness to make profits at the expense of the environment. The writer thinks that the shoppers, as consumers of farm produce, should be made aware of the potential damage to the environment and bear in mind that what they consume will influence the environment. Book 3-Unit 12 Text Summary Market demands and increase in production for immediate profits are forces that drive people to over-exploit natural resources and eventually destroy our environment. The presence of green beans in a British supermarket in wintertime and the endangered Lake Naivasha are cases in point. The title often tells us what the text is about. What does the title Danger of the Market Forces mean? Book 3-Unit 12 Text Summary The author of The Danger of Market Forces does not start right away to say that ______________________________ _______________. Instead he starts with a discussion of _________________________________, _____________, and ________________________________. This discussion leads to his concern about the relationship between ___________________________. To illustrate, he cites the example of ____________________, showing how farming activities there have affected the life-giving water of the lake. And finally he finishes the article by calling for greater awareness of ______________________________ _____________. How does the author develop the essay? market forces pose a danger to the the variety of vegetables in a supermarket the weather the appearance of local allotments market forces and the environment environment Lake Naivasha in Kenya the danger of market forces on the environment Book 3-Unit 12 1. On my way here I passed local allotments, and despite a tantalising glimpse of spring sunshine they lie all but derelict in their winter dormancy, the skeleta