【課文講解】
背誦：Pollution is the price we pay for an overpopulated, over industrialized planet.
I was blamed for being late.
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Losing health is the price he paid for his hard work./ (working hard/ over working )
come to ==get to
并列平行結構
There are some good ways to study English well.
listen, speak, read and write.
There are four good ways to study English: listening, speaking, reading and writering.
reuse it recyde it
背熟：We keep trying all four methods, but he sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.
volume == amount
threaten to do
Eg: The coming earthquake threatens the village.
Dark clouds threaten a heavy storm. 烏去預示著有一場風暴。
The sun promises a good day.
It is possible...
背熟：The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.
leads to
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背熟：The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high
The price we pay is too high.
abandon 強調被迫放棄
organically-grown vegetable: 綠色蔬菜
every time: whenever
innocent (of) adj. 清白的，無辜的，無知的
Paragraph 3 (l.15)
noise
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insidious 暗中為害的，陰險的
Burglar alarms going off at any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually ( to ) assist burglars to burgle.
背熟：Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation.
Eg: Her husband earns a lot of money every mounth and he is a source of income. 他的丈夫每月能賺很多錢，這是他的一棵搖錢樹。
背熟：The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike.
名詞結構 （平行結構）
lawn mower 割草機
container trucks: 集裝箱卡車
sources of noise
背熟：New technology has also made its own contribution to noise.
make contribution to 作出...... 的貢獻