공통영어2 능률 민병천 4과 변형문제

____ environment is in trouble.

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

More and more waste is also ____ produced.

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

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

Will we be able to protect the environment from mountains of ____

____ we stop climate change from reaching dangerous levels?

Achieving these goals seems ____

Nature, however, may have provided us with solutions to these ____

Here are three areas where changes are ____ happening.

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

That means the items are used ____ 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 ____ of plastic in our landfills.

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

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

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

This puts many ____ species in danger.

With ____ in mind, scientists are turning to mealworms.

Mealworms are the larvae of a certain ____ of beetle.

Special bacteria live ____ them.

These ____ can break down plastic.

This means that mealworms can actually feed on ____

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

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

This may help us keep our landfills ____

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Therefore, this promising area should be further explored to ____ out which trees are 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 in the world drink coffee ____ day.

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

There, ____ can create a harmful greenhouse gas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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