The natural environment still manages to fill us with a sense of awe and amazement. Despite the amount of scientific knowledge mankind has gathered, nature still holds great mysteries that we may never be able to unravel. This complexity has continually daunted man.(66)______As a result, we have distanced ourselves from the earth, even though our survival is completely dependent on it. We are now trying to regain our close connection to nature.
(67)______Referred to as "natural architecture", it aims to create a new, more harmonious, relationship between man and nature by exploring what it means to design with nature in mind.
The roots of this movement can be found in earlier artistic shifts like the "land art" movement of the late nineteen sixties. Although this movement was focused on protesting the austerity of the gallery and the commercialization of art, it managed to expand the formal link between art and nature. (68)______
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A. This has helped develop a new appreciation of nature in all forms of art and design.
B. Instead, the structures deliberately expose the natural materials used in the building process.
C. The core concept of the movement is that mankind can live harmoniously with nature, changing and using it for our needs
D. There is an emerging art movement that is exploring mankind’s desire to reconnect to the earth, through the built environment.
E. Because of this, the results often resemble native architecture, reflecting the desire to return to a less technological world.
F. In frustration, we try to control nature by enforcing order.
The Environment in Perspective:Is Everything Getting Steadily Worse
Much of the discussion of environmental problems in the popular press leaves the reader with the impression that matters have been growing steadily worse, and that pollution is largely a product of the profit system and modern industrialization. There are environmental problems today that are both enormous and pressing, but in fact pollution is nothing new. Medieval cities were pestholes—the streets and rivers were littered with garbage and the air stank of rotting wastes. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, a German traveler reported that to get a view of London from the tower of St. Paul’s, one had to get there very early in the morning "before the air was full of coal smoke."
Since 1960 there has been progress in solving some pollution problems, much of it the result of concerted efforts to protect the environment. The quality of the air in most Canadian
Everything living on earth—each plant and animal—needs other living things. Nothing lives a lone. Most animals must live in a group, and even a tree or a plant grows close together with others of the same kind. Sometimes one living thing hunts another, one eats and the other is eaten. Each kind of life eats another kind of life in order to live, and together they form a food chain. Some food chains are simple, others are complicated. But all have two things in common—all food chains begin with the sun, and all food chains become broken up if one of the links disappears.
All life depends on energy from sunlight. Only plants can use this energy directly. Their leaves are little factories that use sunlight to make food from water and things in the soil and air.
Plants in turn feed all other living things. Animals can only use the sun’s energy after it has been changed into food by plants. Some animals feed directly on plants, others eat smalle
A. Each plant can rive alone.
B. Each animal can live alone.
C. Everything riving on earth can not rive without needing other living things.
D. If living things want to live they must kill each other.
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