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第一项 阅读理解 Unit7 B Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europe. Studies by the Council of Europe, of which 21 counties are members, have shown that 45 percent of reptile species and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of dying out. 在英国，对强烈保护野生动物的要求有时隐瞒了事实，类似的要求在欧洲其他国家有着同感。 拥有21个成员国的欧洲委员会的研究显示，45%的爬行动物和24%的蝴碟类动物濒临灭绝。 European concern for wildlife was outlined by Dr Peter Baum, an expert in the environment and nature resources division of the council, when he spoke at a conference arranged by the administrators of a British national park. The park is one of the few areas in Europe to hold the councils diploma for nature reserves of the highest quality, and Dr. Baum had come to present it to the park once again. 彼得鲍姆 博士一位自然资源部门的专家，环境理事会成员概述了欧洲对野生动物的关注， 他在一次由英国一家国家公园的管理人员安排举办的会议上发言。这个英国国家公园是欧洲为数不多的拥有最高等级的自然保护区证书的地方之一 而鲍姆博士此行的目的就是再次向公园颁发这项证书。 He was afraid that public opinion was turning against national parks, and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today. But Dr. Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that natural environments needed to be allowed to survive in peace in their own right. 他担心公众舆论正转向国家公园，而那些建立于20世纪60年代和70年代的公园，今天就不能建立了。但鲍姆博士作为一个强烈支持者显然维持该观点，该观点是自然环境应当在不受人类干扰和破坏的情况下自由发展。 No area could be expected to survive both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction, he went on. The short view that reserves had to serve immediate human demands for outdoor recreation should be replaced by full acceptance of their importance as places to preserve nature for the future. 没有一个区域可被期待既作为一个真正的自然保护区，同时作为一个旅游胜地而共生存，他继续说。简短的观点，是即保护区不得不立即以服务于人类户外休闲的需求，完全接受它们对于未来大自然保护的重要性所取代。 “We forget that they are the guarantee of life systems on which any built-up area ultimately depends.” Dr. Baum went on, “We could manage without most industrial products, but we could not manage without nature. However, our natural environment areas, which are the ori