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ding to the author, should play the leading role in the solution of environmental problems? A) Legislation and government intervention. B) The industry’s understanding and support. C) The efforts of environmental health professionals. D) The cooperation of ecologists, environmental activists and conservationists. 5. Which of the following is true according to the last paragraph? A) Efforts should be exerted on pollution prevention instead of on remedial measures. B) More money should be spent in order to stop pollution. C) Ordinary citizens have no access to technical information on pollution. D) Environmental degradation will be stopped by the end of this decade. 參考答案: 1The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, meaning essential quality, origin, innate disposition, 2Natura originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord.[1][2] The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion。 3Within the various uses of the word today, nature may refer to the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, 4and in some cases to the processes associated with inanimate 5objects–the way that particular types of things exist and change 6of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the the matter and energy of which all these things are posed.7 It is not often taken to mean the natural environment or wilderness–wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general those things that8 have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which persist despite human intervention. For, example, manufactured objects and human interaction generally are not considered part of nature, unless qualified as, for example, human nature or the whole of nature. 9This more traditional concept of natural things, which can still be found today, implies a distinction between the natural and the artificial, 10with the artificial being understood as that which has been brought into being by a human consciousness or a human mind.