공통영어2 능률 민병천 4과 변형문제

Our environment is in ____

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

More and more ____ is also being produced.

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

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

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

Can we stop climate change from reaching dangerous ____

Achieving these ____ seems difficult.

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

Here ____ three areas where changes are already happening.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

____ puts many marine species in danger.

With this in ____ scientists are turning to mealworms.

Mealworms are the larvae of a certain species ____ beetle.

____ bacteria live inside them.

These bacteria can break ____ plastic.

This means that mealworms ____ actually feed on plastic.

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

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

This may help us ____ our landfills plastic-free.

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

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

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

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

These amazing trees have extensive and ____ root systems.

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

They can also grow ____ 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 purpose is in ____

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

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

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

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

The coffee-making process, however, generates used coffee grounds, which are normally sent to ____

____ they can create a harmful greenhouse gas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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