听力原文：

The environment is everything around us, for example, air, water, animals, plants, buildings and so on. They all affect us in many ways, and the environment is very important to us. People can’t live without the environment. Everybody needs to breathe air, drink water and eat food every day. But now there are so many environmental problems in the world. The environment has been getting worse and worse for many years. We have improved standards of living, but the environment has been polluted. 

Question: Why is the environment very important to us?

参考答案：

Because people can’t live without the environment.