About Wetlands in the U.S.A.
People enjoy a famous soup (SHE-CRAB SOUP) in North Carolina because the days of the regional soup may be getting fewer and fewer: "no wetlands, no seafood".
Ⅰ. The current situation of wetlands:
1) California has lost (1)______ of wetlands --91 percent, (1)______
and the rate of loss of wetlands is an acre per minute.
2) 21 other states have losted at least half of their (2)______. (2)______
Ⅱ. The key value of wetlands:
1) Each acre of wetland is worth (3)______ more money than (3)______
an acre of ocean in the benefits;
2) Wetlands act like sponges and (4)______ like our kidney: (4)______
A. filtering out hazardous materials like dirt, chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers;
B. serving as large (5)______ areas. (5)______
3) More important than ocean (6)______ in the diversity of species supported. (6)______
Ⅲ. The possible measures to protect wetlands:
1) Convince people to stop (7)______ or doing business in former wetlands; (7)______
2) Encourage developers and businesses to stay in (8)______ cities; (8)______
3) Get the government to stop developers from building in wetlands;
4) Raise (9)______ of this serious issue; (9)______
5) Protest the destruction of wetlands when we see it.
Ⅵ. The only solution:
An increase in (10)______ in favor of protecting wetlands, (10) ______
which both the builders and the government will listen.