摘要：今天要跟大家分享的雅思閱讀素材題目是“Plastic bag ban is no sure bet for the environment"禁止使用塑料袋不一定有利于環保。環保類話題也是雅思考試的常客，這篇文章非常值得一讀哦~

Austin deserves to be commended(表揚，稱贊) for its candid(率直的) assessment of what its plastic-bag ban has actually accomplished; it’s probably not the only city where a ban has produced unintended environmental consequences. That shouldn’t deter(阻止，威懾) the scores of other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere considering their own plastic-bag bans. But it should encourage a more thorough and realistic assessment of what such a ban can actually accomplish, and what damage it might inflict(造成，使遭受) along the way. When it comes to(當提到，當涉及到) environmental policy, good intentions often aren’t good enough.

Vocabulary

Single-use plastic shopping-bag 一次性塑料購物袋

Circulation 流通

Landfill 垃圾場

Assessment 評估

Heavy-duty 耐用的

Unprecedented 前所未有的

Vulnerable 易受傷害的

Implement 實施

Rally 召集，匯集

Consensus 一致意見

Rhetoric 言辭，修辭

Municipal 市政的

Generate 生產

Proponent 支持者

Outsized 大號的

Landscape 景觀

Propensity 傾向

Be eligible for 有資格做……

Hazard 危害

Livestock 牲畜

Lament 哀嘆，抱怨

Decompose 分解，腐爛

Mitigate 減輕，中和

Assuming 假設

To that end 為了那個目的

Get acquainted with 與……熟悉

Be equivalent to 與……相當

Ordinance 法令

Address 解決;地址

Prohibitive 價格過高的;禁止性的

Commend 表揚

Candid 率直的

Deter 阻止，威懾

Inflict 使遭受，造成

When it comes to… 當談到……

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