考研英語時文閱讀：人造冰山

1、 考研英語時文閱讀：人造冰山 考研英語時文閱讀：人造冰山考研英語閱讀文章的選擇往往來自西方主流媒體雜志，所關(guān)注和探討的話題也往往與時下熱點話題相關(guān)。今日給大家舉薦一篇與“全球變暖”有關(guān)的文章——人造冰山。希望能對 2022 考研的你有幫助。As the climate warms, glaciers shrink. That is a problem for tho

2、se who rely on melt water from them to irrigate their crops: farmers living in the valleys in Jammu and Kashmir, for example. Most of the lower-lying glaciers in the area they inhabit have disappeared. The melt water tha

3、t farmers need to irrigate their newly sown crops used to arrive in March or April. Now it does not come until June.隨著氣候變暖，冰川也起先萎縮。對于那些依靠冰雪融水來澆灌莊稼的農(nóng)夫來說，這是一個問題。生活在查謨和克什米爾山谷里的農(nóng)夫就是個例子。在這一地區(qū)，大多數(shù)低凹地區(qū)的冰川已經(jīng)消逝。過去農(nóng)夫用于澆灌新播種作物的融水在

4、3 月或 4 月就能到達(dá)，現(xiàn)在直到 6 月也未出現(xiàn)融水。Chewang Norphel, a retired civil engineer who lives in the area, thinks he has the answer: if the natural glaciers have gone, why not build artificial ones? That is what, for the past So far,

5、Mr. Norphel and his team have built a dozen artificial glaciers in this way. The largest of them is a kilometer and a half long and two meters thick. Melt water from these glaciers helps sustain the livelihood of thousan