공통영어2 능률 민병천 4과 변형문제

Our ____ is in trouble.

With the ____ becoming warmer, sea levels are rising and natural disasters such as forest fires and floods are increasing.

More and more waste is ____ being produced.

Plastic, in particular, is causing problems with soil and ____ pollution.

It is ____ that humans are a major contributor to the destruction of nature.

Will we be ____ to protect the environment from mountains of plastic?

Can we stop climate ____ from reaching dangerous levels?

Achieving these goals ____ difficult.

Nature, however, may ____ provided us with solutions to these problems.

Here are three areas where changes are already ____.

About fifty percent of plastic is ____ for single-use products.

That means the items are ____ just once and then discarded.

Do you ever stop to ____ about where these plastic items go after you throw them away?

Recycling can help reduce the amount of ____ in our landfills.

However, less than ____ percent of the world’s plastic waste has been recycled so far.

Often, plastic waste is ____ to places where it is just dumped or burned.

Furthermore, between 8 and 14 million metric tons of plastic ____ up in the ocean every year.

This puts many marine species in ____.

With this in mind, scientists are turning to ____.

Mealworms are the larvae of a certain species of ____.

Special bacteria ____ inside them.

These bacteria can break down ____.

This means that ____ can actually feed on plastic.

Scientists are now looking for ____ to cultivate the bacteria outside of mealworms.

They also want to speed up the process by which the bacteria break down ____.

This may help us ____ our landfills plastic-free.

Mining and other industries are causing soil pollution across the ____.

Although polluted soil can be ____ up and transported to a landfill, this process is expensive.

Moreover, it only moves the problem to another area and does not really ____ it.

Fortunately, there is an ____ and cost-effective way to restore polluted soil—planting willow trees.

These amazing trees have extensive and ____ root systems.

As a result, they ____ extract a wide range of harmful materials from the soil.

They ____ also grow quickly, even in soil with a high acidity level or a lot of heavy metals in it.

Research on the effectiveness of using willow trees for this ____ is in development.

____ have found that some species of willow trees are able to absorb harmful materials better than others.

Therefore, this promising area should be further explored to find out ____ trees are the most effective.

In time, we ____ be able to clean up our land with willow trees.

Statistics show that about thirty to forty percent of people in the world drink coffee ____ day.

The ____ process, however, generates used coffee grounds, which are normally sent to landfills.

There, they can ____ a harmful greenhouse gas.

Unfortunately, there’s no ____ to stop everyone in the world from drinking coffee.

However, we can ____ greenhouse gas emissions by turning used coffee grounds into biofuel.

Biofuel is a natural fuel that is made ____ plant or animal sources.

Researchers have found that they ____ grow algae on old coffee grounds without adding any other nutrients.

If these algae are exposed to ____ hours of light and four hours of darkness each day, they eventually produce high-quality biofuel.

The biofuel is renewable and sustainable, and it creates ____ a small amount of emissions.

____ are just a few solutions we can find in nature.

There could be many more ____ solutions to the problems we currently face.

It seems that Mother ____ has given us one more chance.

In return, we need to look for more ways to keep the environment healthy and ____.

If we do, the future of our planet may be bright ____ all.