继PTE3月换题季后，墨尔本文波PTE的老师们帮同学们解决的最多的疑问就是：“老师，PTE换题了，旧的机经还考吗？”答案当然是肯定的，墨尔本文波PTE负责任的告诉各位同学，不仅考，而且很高频！
下面这篇SST选自Southampton Solen University在2002年6月27日的演讲，主题是Climate change, an area of ‘common concern’.
以下是考试考到部分的原文transcript：
Before we consider international environmental law and climate change we need to consider domestic legislation, as it is within the sovereign states that international law is put into practice. This reflects the environmentalists’ maxim, ‘think globally act locally’.
United Kingdom legislative control over the impacts of mans’ activity on the environment is not new. As long ago as the reign of Charles II the main concern was the production of smoke from the burning of ‘sea coal’. Almost all areas of trade and industry were subject to very detailed legislative controls at that time, although some were governed by ‘self regulation’ in the form of guilds, who regulated both supply and methods of production. However, the measures implemented were mostly ineffective because then, as now, the specifying of legal duties and standards without providing any appropriate enforcement merely indicated good intentions but were of little practical effect.
The next stage was prompted by the Industrial Revolution with the urbanisation of society and its profound effects on the environment. Local industrialists used the Adam Smith model to maximise their economic benefit, but this was to the detriment of the local environment with the operation of ‘Gresham’s Law’ that is, the bad drives out the good. Those industrialists who were concerned for either the health of their employees or the local environment faced higher costs than their competitors. The result was the need for increasingly comprehensive statutory controls on the discharge of pollutants into various receiving media.
文波陪伴，英语不难。
文波陪伴，PTE不难。