공통영어1 능률 오선영 3과 변형문제

Dear Tree, Whenever I walk past you, your beautiful leaves ____ a smile to my face.

Whenever I stop in front of you and take a deep ____ of fresh air, I appreciate the oxygen that you produce.

____ you and all your friends, we humans wouldn’t be able to get enough oxygen.

By the ____, I noticed that a family of birds has made a nest in your branches.

It’s so kind of you to provide them with a ____.

I hope that more people ____ how important you and all the other trees are to the environment. Have a nice day!

Believe it or not, trees in ____, Australia receive emails like this all the time.

How is it possible that trees ____ email addresses?

And why are people ____ them messages?

The story behind these emails begins with ____ Urban Forest Strategy plan, a response to Australia’s millennium drought.

This drought lasted ____ the late 1990s to 2010.

By the time it ended, 40 percent of the ____ 77,000 trees were in a state of declining health.

Furthermore, the ____ number of trees was decreasing.

As a result, the amount of shade provided by trees within the city, ____ known as canopy cover, decreased.

The loss of canopy cover is a major threat to urban ____ because it raises temperatures.

Higher temperatures in cities can be dangerous for residents, as they increase the risk of ____ exhaustion.

They also lead to a ____ in the use of air-conditioning.

This speeds up climate change by ____ energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

____ had to be done to deal with the loss of Melbourne’s trees.

In 2012, the city government announced its Urban ____ Strategy plan.

It set the ____ goal of planting more than 3,000 trees every year for the next twenty years.

The plan also involved the creation of an online map called the Urban ____ Visual.

This interactive map shows the location of every single tree in the city’s parks and along its ____.

It uses colors and ____ to indicate each tree’s age and genus.

____, users can click on a tree to find out its species and even send it an email.

At first, the “____ this tree” function had a specific purpose.

It was designed to allow people to easily inform council ____ about trees that were damaged or in poor health.

After the map was posted online, something ____ happened.

The trees started receiving thousands of emails, but many of them were not reports ____ damage or poor health.

Instead, they were love letters, poems, ____, and messages expressing appreciation for the trees.

One person wrote, “I ____ the way the light shines on your leaves and how your branches hang so low.

It is almost like you are ____ to hug me.”

The tree mail phenomenon ____ spread, and people all over the world started sending messages.

A message that was sent all the way ____ Russia said,

“When I read about this ____ project, I was inspired to write to you, even though I live thousands of miles away.

Although we are separated by a great distance, we share the same ____ and the same environment.

Perhaps one day we will meet. Until then, I hope you can ____ healthy and strong.”

The global popularity of the ____ mail phenomenon reminds us that we are all connected to nature, and we are all involved in building a more sustainable world.

Without collective action from people across the globe, we would have little hope of saving our ____ for future generations.

Locally, the tree mail phenomenon has inspired many Melbourne residents to offer their own ideas about building an environmentally ____ urban environment.

Some have even volunteered to ____ trees and monitor animals for nature programs in the city.

Meanwhile, the Urban Forest Strategy’s tree ____ project has remained on track,

and canopy cover is predicted to increase from 23 percent in ____ to 40 percent by the year 2040.

Melbourne’s urban forest strategy will ____ keep the city cool.

It will also ____ residents to interact with nature and engage in outdoor activities every day.

As a result, residents will be ____ and healthier as they move toward a greener future.