In my children's lifetimes, I believe gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans ( 猩猩) will all become extinct in the wild. So the question we have to ask ourselves is this: do wewant our children to see only in zoos what used to exist in the real world? It is the great apes that will disappear first, because there are so few of them left, and because they're so vulnerable to changes in their habitats.Many of the threats to these animals result from a global economy and not local pressures. The threat to the orangutans in Indonesia, for example, is largely a result of deforestation and the risks to apes and chimpanzees in Africa result from the timbertrade and the demand for bush-meat. The two work together: logging opens up the forest, which means that the bush-meat can be got out fast, to Kinshasa or to London.If we want to avoid the disaster, people in developedcountries will have to take a global perspective and accept responsibility for the damage export crops, such as timber, coffee, cut flowers or even green beans, do to the environment. The challenge is to avoid simply imposingWestern attitudes on local peoples.Already there are no truly wild places left in the world. Looking at wildlife has become the preserve of the middle classes over the last 20-odd years, and as wild animals become even rarer,so more tourists want to see them. But tourism alone plainly cannot conserve the world's animals; economic development is the priority. For the future, I suspect that if you really want to do something about wildlife conservation, you would bebetter off putting your money into women's education rather than just into the protection of flagship species. Women often bear the direct costs of wildlife conflict; their knowledge of how to deal with conflict and how to control their ownreproductive destinies may yet determine the survival of many threatened species. Choose the best answersto the following questions.1.Why will the great apesbecome extinct inthe wild first?A.Because the great apes are moving away from the wild life conservation areas.B.Because the great apes are unable to survive any natural disasters.C.Because more and more great apes are kept in zoos.D.Because the great apes are unadaptable to changes in the environment.2.In the second paragraph, the word "deforestation" means .A.the process of hunting for wildlife in forestsB.adventures in forestsC.the process of removing forests from a placeD.the exploration of forests3. According to the passage, all of thefollowing statements are true except _________A.the development of tourism helps to conserve the wildlifeB.developed countries should be aware of the damage export crops do to the environmentC.all the threats to animals result from local pressures aloneD.the timber trade and the demand for bush-meat risk the lives of primates in Africa4. We can infer from the fourth paragraph thatA.it is the m iddle classthat should take moreresponsibility foranimal conservationpared with economic development, tourism is more important in animal conservationC.in order to conserve wild animals, economicdevelopment should be put above everything elseD.tourism cannot conserve the wildlife; it will only do harm to the environment5. The author suggests in the last paragraph that .A.one would be richer if he puts money into women's educationB.to put money into women's education is moreimportant in wildlife conservation than to put money into flagship species orotectionC.women know how to determine the survival of many threatened speciesD.worn en often bear the direct costs of wildlife conflictComplete the following sentences with the information given in the passage.1. According to the author, the extinction of wild animalswill be mainly a resultof____.KEY:the global economy2.Not only local people, but also___ should beresponsible for the damageexport crops do to the environment.KEY:people in developed countries3.More and more t ourists want to see wild animalsbecause____KEY: wild animals are becoming rarer翻译野生动物保护在孩子们的一生中,我相信大猩猩,黑猩猩和猩猩(猩猩)都将成为在野外绝迹。
因此,这个问题我们要问自己的是这样的:我们希望我们的孩子在动物园里看到曾经存在什么在现实世界上唯一?它是将要消失巨猿第一,因为有那么少数人离开了,因为他们是如此脆弱,在它们的栖息地的变化。
许多从全球经济的威胁,这些动物的结果,不是本地的压力。
对在印尼的红毛猩猩的威胁,例如,主要是森林砍伐和风险结果猩猩和非洲的木材贸易的结果对布什和黑猩猩肉的需求。
这两个一起工作:开辟了森林砍伐,这意味着布什肉可以下车快,金沙萨或伦敦。
如果我们要避免灾难的发生,发达国家的人将不得不从全球角度看待和接受的损害出口作物,如木材,咖啡,鲜花甚至绿色豆类,责任,做环境。
目前的挑战是要避免简单地强加给当地人民的西方态度。
已经有没有真正在世界上仅存的野生地。