News feed：A broken promise

[2019.11.20] 發表

【明報專訊】JUST a few days after a rally demanding his administration handle global warming, US president Donald Trump gave the United Nations a formal notice that his country would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, an arrangement for emission cuts, on November 4 next year.

Guardians of the Forest

IN Brazil, there are the Guardians of the Forest (雨林守衛隊) dedicated to protecting the Amazon rainforest from illegal logging. Unfortunately, Paulo Paulino Guajajara (middle), one of the guardians and the indigenous leader of the Guajajara, a tribe with over 20,000 members in Maranhao, Brazil, was shot dead by loggers while hunting. Maranhao's governor Flavio Dino has set up a special enforcement unit assisting the tribe in patrolling their land.

Shopping spree

DOUBLE 11 has just passed. During this shopping spree in China, online retailers flood their web pages with a string of limited-time offers. However, some so-called original prices are sheer invention from start to finish. To curb such ''commercial fraud'', multiple online retailers have been put under the authorities' ''administrative guidance'' and urged to stop making up original prices, breaking promises of price cuts, and so on, so as to safeguard consumer interests. (photo.3)

■Gear up

According to the passages on p 1 and p 2, answer the following questions.

(1) Some think that the AI traffic monitoring plan has to be discussed before it is put into practice. ( True / False / Not given )

(2) The US's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement has taken effect. ( True / False / Not given )

(3) The Guardians of the Forest are engaged in ( illegal logging / saving the forest from illegal logging / patrolling Brazil ).

(Answers on next text)

■Glossary

logging (n) 伐木

patrol (v) 巡邏

spree (n) 狂歡

invention (n) 捏造

[Smarties' Power English 第261期]