공통영어2 능률 민병천 4과 변형문제

Our ____ is in trouble.

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

More and more waste is ____ being produced.

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

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

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

Can we ____ climate change from reaching dangerous levels?

Achieving these goals ____ difficult.

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

Here are ____ areas where changes are already happening.

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

That ____ the items are used 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 ____ ten percent of the world’s plastic waste has been recycled so far.

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

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

This ____ many marine species in danger.

With this in mind, ____ are turning to mealworms.

____ are the larvae of a certain species of beetle.

____ bacteria live inside them.

____ bacteria can break down plastic.

This ____ that mealworms can actually feed on plastic.

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

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

This ____ help us keep our landfills plastic-free.

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

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

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

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

These amazing trees have ____ and well-developed root systems.

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

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

Research on the effectiveness of using willow ____ for this purpose 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 ____ out which trees are the most effective.

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

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

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

There, they can ____ a harmful greenhouse gas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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