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【補習社, 英文補習, 補習英文, 中文補習, 補習中文, 英文課程, 暑期課程, 補習數學, 數學補習】 　　Britain is facing a sharp rise in its rat population as growing numbers of people leave fast food scraps in the street, an environment group warned. Keep Britain Tidy said the rodents were abandoning their traditional haunts underground and were roaming the streets, enticed by discarded remnants of burgers, pizzas and crisps. "The rat population is on the rise and soon it'll be as common to see a rodent on our street as it is to see a dog or a cat," said group Director, Sue Nelson. The practice of dumping fast food litter and scraps on the street rather than in the trash - with young men the worst offenders - was behind the rise. According to the National Rodent Survey in 2001, Britain's rat population has grown by nearly one quarter since 1998 and is now estimated at 60 million, two million more than the human population. On average a rat can give birth every 24-28 days and just a single pair of rats can produce a colony of 2,000 a year. Around 200 Britons a year contract Weil's Disease - an infection which can lead to kidney or liver failure and eventually death and which is carried in rat's urine. To highlight the issue, Keep Britain Tidy launched a cinema advert entitled "How close do you want them to get?" The ad culminates in a shocking image of a young woman sleeping in a bed of rats - echoing the nightmare scenario from James Herbert's classic horror tale The Rats, in which mutant rodents begin to prey on humans. 吃剩快餐貽鼠患 　　一個環保組織發出警告：由於越來越多的人把吃剩的快餐扔在大街上，英國的老鼠數量正在急劇上升。“保持英國清潔”組織說，人們拋棄的漢堡包、比薩餅和土豆條殘渣正在誘使習慣在地下活動的鼠類轉而到大街上漫步。“老鼠數量正在增長，很快在街上看到老鼠就會和看到貓狗一樣平常，”該組織負責人蘇-尼爾森說。老鼠增多的背後是往大街上而不是垃圾箱裡亂扔快餐垃圾和殘渣的行為--年輕人是其中的罪魁禍首。根據2001年的國傢鼠類調查，英國的老鼠數量自1998年來增長瞭將近¼，目前估計為6千萬隻，比英國人口還多2百萬。老鼠平均每24至28天就可生產一次，僅僅一對老鼠一年就能繁殖出一個2000隻的鼠群。每年大約有200個英國人感染威爾氏癥--一種能導致腎或肝功能衰竭直至死亡的傳染病，病源在老鼠的尿液中。為引起人們對這一問題的註意，“保持英國清潔”推出瞭名為“你希望它們靠得多近？”的影院宣傳片。宣傳片的高潮是一幅令人震驚的畫面：一個年輕婦女睡在一張滿是老鼠的床上--這是對詹姆斯-赫伯特的經典恐怖故事《老鼠》中夢魘般的景象的模擬。在那個故事中，變異的老鼠開始捕食人類。 Tags: 補習社, 英文補習 , 補習英文, 中文補習 , 補習中文, 英文課程, 暑期課程, 補習數學, 數學補習