PTE考生目前最大的问题之一就是练习题缺乏。除了有限的基本官方书（PLUS，Testbuilder, OG）之外，就没有题了。很多英语基础不是很扎实的同学很难找到练习材料。墨尔本文波雅思PTE培训学校专门为墨尔本，悉尼PTE考生准备了适合PTE听力阅读练习的科学60秒。各位PTE同学可以练习PTE听力中的summarise spoken text和PTE口语中的retell lecture，练习记笔记技巧和复述。废话少说，下面开始：
60秒科学：Poisoned Poor Killed in Millions by Pollution
听力内容：
60秒科学节目（SSS）是科学美国人网站的一套广播栏目，英文名称：Scientific American – 60 Second Science,节目内容以科学报道为主，节目仅一分钟的时间，主要对当今的科学技术新发展作以简明、通俗的介绍，对于科学的发展如何影响人们的生活环境、健康状况及科学技术，提供了大量简明易懂的阐释。
What kills more people than HIV, malaria and tuberculosis every year? Air pollution. Tack on fouled water and poisoning by toxic waste and pollution killed 8.4 million people in 2012 or nearly three times as many people as those three diseases. Combined.
That’s according to a new analysis by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution based on data collected by the World Health Organization.
The problem is people breathing in the fumes of cooking fires in smoky homes or the soot from coal-fired power plants outside. Or there’s the suffering caused by raw sewage in the water supply or poisonous heavy metals that get into the soil via industrial waste.
That’s why the Alliance is calling for a global battle to help the poisoned poor via the Sustainable Development Goals currently being formulated by the United Nations. The proposed goal would be to at minimum cut such pollution-related deaths to less than three million people per year by 2030.
The tools and technologies to cope with such pollution already exist and have been used for years to clean up the air and water in the richest countries, like the U.S. So maybe it’s time to transfer that technology where it can save even more lives.
–David Biello
