英语的学习没有那么多的花哨的绚烂的技巧，实力的构建只需要实实在在的付出和使用，今天沈阳环球教育龙珠老师还是继续跟大家介绍曾经看到过的《经济学人》中的文章，希望可以帮助到你。

　　今天的文章是2016年1月份的文章，题目是 The Mineral Water

　　CHINA is so vast, it quickly becomes the largest market for almost anything it consumes. Such is the case with bottled water（1）. Chinese drink 40 billion litres (70 billion pints) of the stuff each year, up over 13-fold since 1998. That growth has a long way to go if China ever consumes as much per person as Mexico (see chart). But finding clean supplies is difficult; rivers, lakes and even groundwater in China are often foul（a）. Hence the huge demand for a seemingly inexhaustible source of pristine （b）water that is cheap to extract, sells at a premium （c） and can now, thanks to massive investment in infrastructure, be taken to coastal cities: Tibetan glaciers（2）.

　　Tibet already sells Qomolangma Glacier water, named after the Tibetan word for Mount Everest. Last year Sinopec, a state-owned energy group, put another brand on sale at its petrol stations: Tibet 5100. It is bottled 5,100 metres (16,700 feet) up in the Nyenchen Tanglha range.      

　　The Tibetan government has licensed 28 more companies to increase the province's bottling capacity 50-fold by 2020（3）.

　　More worrying is the possible threat that the industry will pose to the Tibetan environment. China has an atrocious(d) record of looking after its pristine areas.(4) Liu Hongqiao of China Water Risk, an NGO, says no water company has published any environmental-impact study in Tibet. The bottling industry may spawn(e) other, heavy-polluting ones, on the plateau, for the production of bottles and the plastic they use.

　　其中标注数字的是需要了解和掌握的句子，标注字母的是需要学习的单词。对于词汇的学习，建议大家查正规的单词书，朗文，牛津和韦氏词典都可以，至于某度，可以查单词，千万别因为懒惰而直接复制其中的动宾搭配或者偏正搭配，未来的你会后悔的。

　　单词部分

　　1）foul extremely unpleasant 极其令人不快的；恶劣的

　　oThose toilets smell foul!那些卫生间太难闻了！

　　2）pristine

　　formal new or almost new, and in very good condition 崭新的；状态良好的

　　opristine new offices崭新的办公室

　　oWashing machine for sale - only 2 months old and in pristine condition.出售洗衣机--只用了两个月，完好如新。

　　3）premium['pri:.mi.?m] noun   be at a premium

　　to be not common and therefore valuable 奇缺，非常稀罕

　　oFree time is at a premium for working parents.对于上班的父母来说，空余时间非常宝贵。

　　4）atrocious  UK [ə'trəʊ.ʃəs]

　　VERY BAD 很糟的

　　very bad quality 恶劣的，糟糕的，差劲的

　　oan atrocious film/piece of acting糟糕透顶的电影/表演

　　oThe weather has been atrocious all week.天气整整一星期都很糟糕。

　　oConditions in the prison were atrocious.监狱的环境相当恶劣。

　　5）spawn UK [spɔ:n] START 开始transitive

　　to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly （使）产生，（使）突然成长

　　oHer death spawned countless films and books.她的去世促成了无数电影和书籍面世。

　　句子分析

　　1.Such is the case with bottled water.

　　---汉语意思是瓶装水也不例外，以后在文章的论述过程里，可以使用这个句子，表示同理，句式结构精简有效，很好的例子。

　　比如，政府需要在很多能给人们生活带来很多便利的方面投资，公共交通也不例外。

　　Government should invest on the aspects that bring a lot of convenience to people's public life , such is the case with the public transport .

　　2.Hence the huge demand for a seemingly inexhaustible source of pristine water that is cheap to extract, sells at a premium and can now, thanks to massive investment in infrastructure, be taken to coastal cities: Tibetan glaciers.

　　本句为省略句，结构为hence+名词结构，如果同学们并未熟知这个句子的结构使用，建议大家还是不要模范了。

　　Pristine water 后加的that从句为定语从句，从句谓语有三个：is cheap & sells & can be taken to …

　　Thanks to massive …----插入语成分，多亏了…，一般指好的方面。

　　3.The Tibetan government has licensed 28 more companies to increase the province's bottling capacity 50-fold by 2020.

　　主干部分---主语+ has licensed …to V

　　本句为数据描述，Increase … 50-fold ---增加50倍。

　　4.More worrying is the possible threat that the industry will pose to the Tibetan environment.

　　很好的句式，定语从句的结构，以后可以提取出来一个同样的句式---more worrying is the possible threat that …will pose to …

　　e.g. More worrying is the possible threat that the international tourists will pose to the local  environment .

　　希望你有所收获。