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Tourists taking a holiday in the Indonesian island of Bali are facing a new $14- per-person tax when they arrive on the holiday island from next year.
從明年開始，在印度尼西亞巴厘島度假的游客在抵達(dá)度假島嶼時，每人需要繳納14美元的稅。
But this is a green tax which Bali Governor Wayan Koster has been working on for months and which is designed to help clean up the island's natural environment and with good reason, too.
但這是巴厘島州長韋恩·科斯特幾個月來一直在努力推行的一項環(huán)保稅，旨在幫助打理島上的自然環(huán)境，這也是出于好意。
Indonesia is drowning in plastics.
印尼正淹沒在塑料污染中。
Recycling is not one of the country's strong points.
回收利用不是這個國家的強項之一。
It's not uncommon to be offered many more plastic bags than one could ever need when visiting supermarkets and shopping malls, but slowly things are starting to change for the better.
逛超市和購物中心時，給你的塑料袋比你需要的多得多，這很常見，但慢慢地，情況開始向好的方向發(fā)展。
Back in 2016, the medium sized city of Banjarmasin banned single-use plastic bags.
早在2016年，中等城市班賈爾馬辛就禁止使用一次性塑料袋。
The city of Bogor followed suit in 2018.
2018年，茂物市也效仿了這一做法。
A few months ago, Koster announced a plan that would not only ban single-use plastic bags from supermarkets and convenience stores but plastic bags and straws across the island.
幾個月前，科斯特宣布了一項計劃，不僅禁止在超市和便利店使用一次性塑料袋，還禁止在全島使用塑料袋和吸管。
The regulation will come into full effect next month.
這項規(guī)定將于下個月全面生效。
"We received a fast and quick response from the Balinese people.
“我們收到了巴厘島人民的迅速回應(yīng)。
Not only positive responses from the Balinese, we received good responses from the central government, other local governments, and even from overseas," Koster told the Sydney Morning Herald this week during an interview.
科斯特在本周接受《悉尼先驅(qū)晨報》采訪時表示，“我們不僅得到了巴厘人的積極回應(yīng)，還得到了中央政府、其他地方政府，甚至海外的正面回應(yīng)。”
The governor is a determined environmentalist and he has more laws planned to protect the island's water ways in particular, and to support the introduction of electric vehicles, too.
這位州長是一位堅定的環(huán)保主義者，他計劃制定更多的法律是保護(hù)島上的水道，尤其支持電動汽車的引進(jìn)。
Questions 16~18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
請根據(jù)你剛剛聽到的短文回答16~18題。
Question 16: What would tourists have to do when they visit Indonesia's Bali Island?
問題16:游客去印尼巴厘島旅游時要做什么?
Question 17: What does the passage say about Indonesia?
問題17:關(guān)于印度尼西亞，這篇文章說了什么?
Question 18: What is the new plan Governor Koster recently announced?
問題18:州長科斯特最近宣布的新計劃是什么?
