分類: 理想及執行

Why are advanced countries still whaling?

Key Word

1. hacktivist 激進駭客
2. baffle 困惑
3. are opposed to 反對
4. justification 合理化說詞
5. sustainable 永續的
6. minke whale 小須鯨
7. fin whale長鬚鯨

A “hacktivist" group recently took down many Icelandic government websites, in protest at the country’s practice of whaling.

In fact, Iceland is not the only country that still practices whaling: Japan and Norway also do so. This often baffles people from elsewhere. We wonder why are the countries still whaling if most counties are opposed to it.

Iceland’s whalers are legally allowed to hunt 154 fin whales and 229 minke whales. Icelanders usually offer two justifications. First, there are too many whales in the ocean and they eat all the fish. Second, Icelanders do not eat whale meat: it is the tourists that do that.

That first claim is arguable. The second is largely true. According to an official report, 35-40% of visitors to Iceland eat whale meat. And minke whales are found in all of the world’s oceans. There are over 100,000 minke whales in the wild. And although Fin whales are an endangered species based on the remaining number of them around the world, the fin whale population in North Atlantic is considered healthy. For that reason, hunting fin whales around Iceland is not a conservation threat. So, to Icelandic whalers, when they talk about whaling, they talk about whaling a particular population, not a species.

Whaling is a long tradition in Iceland and Icelanders think that they can use marine resources, as long as they do it in a sustainable and responsible way. The Japanese and Norwegian governments take a similar attitude towards whaling.

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A Gardener on a Wheelchair

Vocabulary List
1. steer駕駛，掌舵
2. soil土壤
3. solution溶劑
4. nourish滋養
5. screen 布幕、網幕
6. dangle懸擺
7. flush沖洗；發紅
8. pest害蟲
9. evidence證據

1. Kiyo Tanaka skillfully steers her wheelchair between the flower beds as she gardens outdoors. Gardening is one of her favorite year-round activities.
2. Believe it or not, thirteen-year-old Kiyo also successfully grows plants indoors without soil. She fills plastic containers with a special solution for nourishing plants. She uses a piece of screen to support each plant in a container, which allows the roots to dangle into the solution so that half of the root system is covered¹. Every few weeks Kiyo pours out the old solution, flushes the container with clear water, and then pours in fresh solution, which she buys at a gardening center.
3. With this kind of indoor gardening, Kiyo doesn’t have to worry about outdoor garden pests, poor soil, or bad weather. She keeps the plants on shelves where they can get good sunlight and where she can reach them easily. Her indoor plants are a living evidence to the good care she gives them.

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動物能看見顏色嗎？

Vocabulary List
1. perhaps或許
2. a certain某特定的
3. distinguish區別

1. 科學家認為，大多數的動物都無法看見顏色，或許這個世界對動物而言是黑白的。為了弄清楚是否狗也能夠看見顏色，科學家在給狗餵食東西前先播放一種特定的音樂。幾天後，每當那些狗聽到那首音樂就準備要吃東西了。而當那些狗聽到不同的音樂時，牠們並沒有準備要吃東西。
2. 後來，這些科學家在給狗一些食物吃之前先讓狗狗看見某一種特定的顏色。幾天後，當狗看到這種顏色，牠們就做好吃東西的準備。然後科學家又給狗看不同的顏色，而這些狗又準備好了要吃東西。狗是無法區分不同顏色的。
3. 然而，猴子可以看到不同的顏色之間的差異。例如，如果我們每天把食物放在一個紅色盒子中，猴子總是會去紅色盒子找食物吃。過一陣子之後，如果我們將食物放入藍色盒子，猴子是不會去那裡找東西吃的。

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The Coins

Vocabulary List
1. cough咳嗽    
2. notice注意    
3. sore疼痛的    
4. throat喉嚨痛

筆記

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勇敢的老師

參考單字
1. blizzard暴風雪  
2. victim受害者
3. courage勇氣
4. temperature溫度

1. 1888年美國西部的大暴風雪造成超過500受害者，但也有英雄。其中最有名的是兩位年輕的女教師，她們的勇氣和冷靜頭腦救了學生生命。
2. 在1月12日那天，在校園玩耍的兒童看到了一些看起來像是「大棉球」的東西向他們滾過去。當時老師己經響起上課的鈴噹。當最後一個學童進到教室裡後，強風幾乎把校舍吹倒。這時溫度開始下降，老師用溫暖衣物把孩子包起來。在後來的12小時內，溫度下降了50度！有的孩子很想回家，但老師把他們留在教室到隔天早上。
3. 在附近的另一個小鎮，有一位老師和她的學生也在學校度過了一夜。他們砍書桌和椅子，然後放在一起燃燒，這樣才能保暖。當隔天早上暴風雪沉寂下來，那位老師帶著孩子們走到附近一個安全的建築物。

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