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 Sustainability is the capacity to endure through renewal, maintenance, and sustenance, or nourishment.  14 , 
durability refers to the capacity to endure through constant resistance to change. For humans in social systems or 
ecosystems, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of responsibility, which has environmental, economic, and 
social dimensions. It encompasses the concept of stewardship, the responsible management of resource use. In ecology, 
sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse, robust, and productive  15 , a necessary 
precondition for the well-being of humans and other organisms. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are   16  of 
sustainable biological systems. Robust, diverse, productive ecosystems and environments provide vital resources and 
processes,   17  "ecosystem services." There are two major ways of managing human impact on ecosystem 
services. One approach is environmental management; this approach is based largely on information gained from 
educated professionals in earth science, environmental science, and conservation biology.  18  approach is 
management of consumption of resources, which is based largely on information gained from educated professionals in 
economics. Both try to reduce negative human impact on the environment, though in different ways. 
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請依下文回答第 19 題至第 22 題 
 The story of communication is an important part of world history. In prehistoric times, for example, people did 
not have books. They did not know much about geography.  19 . They knew only about themselves and their 
environment (the land around their homes). Their knowledge of geographical things like mountains and rivers was 
limited. They did not travel very  far. Sometimes they knew about nearby people and communicated with them.  20 . 
Early types of signals for communication included smoke from fires and the sounds of drums. Then people formed 
towns, and then cities, as safe places to live. Soon they began to develop other ways to communicate, to spread 
information.  People began to buy and sell things to one another. Because of their business, they developed writing 
systems to keep records and to send messages. Life was changing for many people.   21 , and so did the invention 
of the printing press. Many more people learned to read then.  22 . People sent letters and news by horse and 
carriage. Later the mail went by train, by boat, and then by airplane. World communication became a possibility. 
19 People created signals for communication  People were limited in many ways 
People used birds to send messages  People live in their horse carriages 
20 They sent messages in simple ways  They knew a lot about geography 
For example, they lacked printed materials  Mountains and rivers are geographical features 
21 Business caused changes  Life became convenient 
Travelling caused casualties  Relations became closer