跟讀練習: FCE1 TEST2 PART4 - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Now turn to part four.
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You'll hear a girl called Trisha Simpkins talking at a public
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meeting about a plan to create a nature reserve in the centre of a large city.
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For questions 24 to 30, choose the best answer A, B or C.
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You now have one minute in which to look at part four.
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Thank you.
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Good afternoon.
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Thank you for coming to this public meeting
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which has been called to discuss the idea of creating a nature reserve in the city, that is, an area where wildlife is protected.
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And to begin with, local teenager, Trisha Simkins, is going to tell us some of the background to the idea.
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Trisha.
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Yes, hello.
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I'd like to start by saying that, like many city teenagers, I don't have much contact with the countryside.
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I live off a busy, polluted shopping street, full of people and cars in the middle of a crowded city, and I'd never given any thought to wildlife.
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Even though every house down my street has got a bit of a garden, and we have trees along the road and a piece of waste ground at one end, it seemed nothing out of the ordinary,
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and I took it all for granted.
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My attitude started to change
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when we had to do a survey of the wildlife in the city as part of a school project.
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We chose ten families from the street and we asked them just to write down all the animals,
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birds, insects and so on that they could remember seeing in their garden
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or down the street during the last couple of years.
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All sorts of surprising things soon started coming out of that survey, like that we have 20 different sorts of butterfly,
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50 different types of birds and all sorts of animals, even some quite large ones like foxes and deer.
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At first we wondered what it meant, like was it a world record or something?
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We'd no way of knowing.
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So what we did, we got in touch with a nature reserve out in the country
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and asked them what you could see there.
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And that's when we realised that we've as much, if not more, wildlife than they do.
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and that's what really got us interested in the idea of a nature reserve here
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because what worries us now is
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that we may be losing our local wildlife one specially worrying
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thing has been all the cutting down of trees in the
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streets we've got really big old trees here in this part of the city
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and of course if one gets damaged in a storm
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or gets a disease it has to be removed
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but this year alone over 100 of these trees have been chopped down
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Now the reason given for this is that the trees have really extensive root systems, which makes it difficult for people laying gas pipes, electricity cables and things.
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But we think these problems are not as serious as they are made out to be, and there's no need for all this destruction.
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What's more, although the local council has agreed to plant new trees in place of the old ones, what they're planting are these little ornamental trees that look nice,
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but the birds and animals just don't use them in the same way
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and they're not even saving money because more suitable trees cost just the same.
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Another example of what can happen is the wasteland at the end of our street.
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It belongs to the city council and as children we all used to play there
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and we thought it was really great because it was
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so covered in bushes and wildflowers that you could get lost if you went off the little muddy tracks.
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Then a few years ago, no doubt thinking they were doing the right thing, the council decided to tidy it up.
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And now it's just an area of grass where people go to exercise their dogs.
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There are a few little trees, but basically there's not a lot there anymore.
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So, what I'd like to propose this afternoon is that we use this space to create a nature reserve.
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We think it should be allowed to go back to its natural condition, thus providing a refuge for the local wildlife which may be suffering from the loss of trees in the area.
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This would, of course, also be a leisure amenity for people who want to get away from the stresses of city living, which is hardly something we would want to deny them.
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So, I would like you...
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Now you'll hear part four again.
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Good afternoon.
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Thank you for coming to this public meeting
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which has been called to discuss the idea of creating a nature reserve in the city.
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That is, an area where wildlife is protected.
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And to begin with, local teenager, Tricia Simpkins, is going to tell us some of the background to the idea.
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Tricia.
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Yes, hello.
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I'd like to start by saying that, like many city teenagers, I don't have much contact with the countryside.
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I live off a busy, polluted shopping street, full of people and cars in the middle of a crowded city, and I'd never given any thought to wildlife.
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Even though every house down my street has got a bit of a garden, and we have trees along the road and a piece of waste ground at one end,
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it seemed nothing out of the ordinary and I took it all for granted.
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My attitude started to change
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when we had to do a survey of the wildlife in the city as part of a school project.
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We chose ten families from the street and we asked them just to write down all the animals, birds, insects and so on that they could remember seeing in their garden
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or down the street during the last couple of years.
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All sorts of surprising things soon started coming out of that survey, like that we have 20 different sorts of butterfly,
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50 different types of birds, and all sorts of animals, even some quite large ones like foxes and deer.
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At first we wondered what it meant, like was it a world record or something?
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We'd no way of knowing.
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So what we did, we got in touch with a nature reserve out in the country
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and asked them what you could see there.
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And that's when we realised that we've as much, if not more, wildlife than they do.
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And that's what really got us interested in the idea of a nature reserve here.
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Because what worries us now is that we may be losing our local wildlife.
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One specially worrying thing has been all the cutting down of trees in the streets.
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We've got really big old trees here in this part of the city, and of course if one gets damaged in a storm or gets a disease, it has to be removed.
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But this year alone, over 100 of these trees have been chopped down.
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Now the reason given for this is that the trees have really extensive root systems, which makes it difficult for people laying gas pipes, electricity cables and things.
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But we think these problems are not as serious as they are made out to be
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and there's no need for all this destruction.
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What's more, although the local council has agreed to plant new trees in place of the old ones, what they're planting are these little ornamental trees that look nice
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but the birds and animals just don't use them in the same way
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and they're not even saving money because more suitable trees cost just the same.
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Another example of what can happen is the wasteland at the end of our street.
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It belongs to the city council and as children we all used to play there
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and we thought it was really great because it was
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so covered in bushes and wildflowers that you could get lost if you went off the little muddy tracks.
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Then a few years ago, no doubt thinking they were doing the right thing, the council decided to tidy it up.
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And now it's just an area of grass where people go to exercise their dogs.
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There are a few little trees, but basically there's not a lot there anymore.
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So, what I'd like to propose this afternoon is that we use this space to create a nature reserve.
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We think it should be allowed to go back to its natural condition, thus providing a refuge for the local wildlife which may be suffering from the loss of trees in the area.
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This would of course also be a leisure amenity for people
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who want to get away from the stresses of city living which is hardly something we would want to deny them.
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So I would like you...
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There'll now be a pause of five minutes for you to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet.
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Be sure to follow the numbering of all the questions.
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I'll remind you when there is one minute left so that you're sure to finish in time.
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That's the end of the test.
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Please stop now.
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Your supervisor will now collect all the question papers and answer sheets.
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| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | systems, which makes · people who want · living which is |
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