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Rachel Carson was a scientist and a bird watcher. She noticed, in the late '50s, the gradual disappearance of some birds, and linked it to our use of 1)pesticides. She wrote a book about her fear that 2)robins would sing no more in future spring times. She called it Silent Spring. With that revolutionary book, Rachel Carson launched the environmental movement, a force that has swept the world.

Rachel: Humans have now acquired a fateful power to 3)alter and to destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

Journalist: What do you think, just in an 4)overview, the effect that this woman’s work has had on this country, and the world?

Interviewee: Her work helped to produce the first Earth Day.

TV: Earth Day - we can see what we all have in common: our planet!

Interviewee: The clean water act, the clean air act, the super fund, some of these were indirect results, but all of them 5)stemmed from the new awareness that was born as a result of Silent Spring’s publication.In that century’s end, environmental challenges round the world make Carson’s words all the more timely: rain forest in danger, animal species dying up, people 6)choking on pollution, from Eastern Europe to China.

Rachel: We’re challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our 7)maturity and our 8)mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964. There’s a wildlife preserve, named for her, in Maine, and her publishers still get occasional letters from people who just read Silent Spring.

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revolutionary [.revə'lu:ʃənəri]

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adj. 革命的
n. 革命者

 
maturity [mə'tjuəriti]

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n. 成熟,(支票等的)到期

 
planet ['plænit]

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n. 行星

 
produce [prə'dju:s]

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n. 产品,农作物
vt. 生产,提出,引起,

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preserve [pri'zə:v]

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v. 保存,保留,维护
n. 蜜饯,禁猎区

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choke [tʃəuk]

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vi. 窒息,阻塞
vt. (掐住或阻塞气管)

 
awareness [ə'wɛənis]

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n. 认识,意识,了解

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movement ['mu:vmənt]

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n. 活动,运动,移动,[音]乐章

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pesticide ['pestisaid]

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n. 杀虫剂

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inevitably [in'evitəbli]

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adv. 不可避免地

 

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