高中英语背诵作文第05课

第

05

课

Natural Resources

自然资源

For many years, we have been told that China is rich

in various natural

resources,

多年以来，我们一直被告知中国是一个资源富饶的国家，

so many people

take it for granted

视为当然

that they are

inexhaustible

无穷

无尽的

;

用不完的

.

于是许多人想当然地认为这些资源是用之不竭的，

People have not

consider

ed that one day some of these natural resources

will be used up

他们从未想过有一天，有些资源会被用之殆尽，

and that we will then be faced with energy

crisis

危机

,

危急关头

.

而我们也将面临能源危机。

As a matter of fact

事实上

,

其实

, many of the natural resources cannot be

replace

d

取代

,

代替

once used up,

实际上，许多自然资源一旦被用尽则无法找到替代物，