专业英语八级写作-46及答案解析.doc

1、专业英语八级写作-46及答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Environmental Protection in Iceland（分数：100.00）_专业英语八级写作-46答案解析 (总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、BWRITING/B(总题数：1，分数：100.00)1.Environmental Protection in Iceland（分数：100.00）_正确答案：(Now elsewhere in the world, Iceland may be spoken of, somewhat

2、breathlessly, as western Europes last pristine wilderness. But the environmental awareness that is sweeping the world had bypassed the majority of Icelanders. Certainly they were connected to their land, the way one is complicatedly connected to, or encumbered by, family one cant do anything about.

3、But the truth is, once youre off the beaten paths of the low-lying coastal areas where everyone lives, the roads are Jew, and theyre all bad, so Icelands natural wonders have been out of reach and unknown even to its own inhabitants. For them the land has always just been there, something that had t

4、o be dealt with and, if possible, exploitedthe mindset being one of land as commodity rather than land as, well, priceless art on the scale of the Mona Lisa. When the opportunity arose in 2003 for the national power company to enter into a 40-year contract with the American aluminum company Alcoa to

5、 supply hydroelectric power for a new smelter, those who had been dreaming of something like this for decades jumped at it and never looked back. Iceland may at the moment be one of the worlds richest countries, with a 99 percent literacy rate and long life expectancy. But the projects advocates, so

6、me of them getting on in years, were more emotionally attuned to the countrys century upon century of want. hardship, and colonial servitude to Denmark, which officially ended only in 1944 and whose psychological imprint remained relatively fresh. For the longest time. life here had meant little mor

7、e than a hut, dark all winter, cold, no hope. children dying left and right, earthquakes, plagues, starvation, volcanoes erupting and destroying all vegetation and livestock, all spirit-a world revolving almost entirely around the welfare of ones sheep and, later, on how good the cod catch was. In t

8、he outlying regions, it still largely does. Ostensibly, the Alcoa project was intended to save one of these dying regionsthe remote and sparsely populated eastwhere the way of life had steadily declined to a point of desperation and gloom. After fishing quotas were imposed in the early 1980s to prot

9、ect fish stocks, many individual boat owners sold their allotments or gave them away, fishing rights ended up mostly in the hands of a few companies, and small fishermen were virtually wiped out. Technological advances drained away even more jobs previously done by human hands, and the people were s

10、eeing everything they had worked for all their lives turn up worthless and their children move away. With the old way of life doomed, aluminum projects like this one had come to be perceived, wisely or not, as a last chance. Smelter or death. The contract with Alcoa would infuse the region with fore

11、ign capital, an estimated 400 jobs, and spin-off service industries. It also was a way for Iceland to develop expertise that potentially could he sold to the rest of the world; diversify an economy historically dependent on fish; and, in an appealing display of Icelandic can-do verve, perhaps even protect all of Iceland, once and for all, from the unpredictability of life itself. We have to live. Halldor Asgrimsson sad. Halldor, a former prime minister and longtime member of parliament from the region, was a driving force behind the project. We have a right to live.)解析：