Environment Awareness Week
Youth Development Centre, Halls 1-4
24-30 March, 2021 10:00 am-9:00 pm
Free admission for all!
Save the environment, Save our future
Our environment needs help.With the participation of more than 50 organizations, Environment Awareness Week is the biggest public education event devoted to environmental protection and conservation. Don’t miss it! Come and know more about:
The Threats to Earth (Hall 1)－What is global warming? How serious is pollution? Learn about different environmental problems from university students who are from across our country. Protect our environment!
The Search for Renewable Energy (Hall 2)－can we get electricity from wind, solar energy, waves, rivers and underground heat? Get the answers from Solar Ace, Tefron, Touch Wind Resources and other participants.
The Quest for Fresh water (Hall 3)－is the shortage of freshwater worsening? What are Singapore’s solutions for treating wastewater? Hear from Flow Technologies, HydroMax Solutions and other participants.
The 3 Rs and Save Earth (Hall 4)－How can we REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE to cut down household wastes? Find out from the Global Gala Network, Green Earth Foundation and other participants.
For more information, please call Mr. Philip Koh at 65531188, or send an email to Mrs. Daisy Soh at daisy_soh@gef. org or visit the events web at http://www. gef. org
Global Environment Fund
25 February, 2021
1. The main aim of Environment Awareness Week is to ________.| A．educate the public on protecting the environment |
| B．discuss global warming and other environmental problems |
| C．explain ways for producing freshwater to save the environment |
| D．learn about renewable energy sources that protect the environment |
| A．Global Gaia Network |
| B．Clean Energy Agency |
| C．Green Earth Foundation |
| D．Global Environment Fund |
| A．It will last a week and the halls will be open 11 hours a day. |
| B．Each hall will charge its visitors the same amount of money. |
| C．Lectures in Hall 2 will be given by university students from the country. |
| D．You can only send an email to Mr. Philip Soh for more information and help. |
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【推荐1】Children from four Buckingham shire primary schools visited Epilepsy Society to plant a hedge (树篱) as part of a Plant-for-the-Planet project. The children from these schools were planting a hedge in the garden of the Queen Elizabeth House at the charity in Chalfont St Peter. Plant-for-the-Planet gives children across the globe the opportunity to learn about the threats of global warming to the environment, and then put their new knowledge into practice as they plant new trees.
The day was organised by Bob Sherren who showed the children how to plant the planet-friendly line of trees in protective chambers (防护室) to shield them from hungry wildlife as they settle in their roots. Bob said, “The day really was ‘Thinking Globally, Acting Locally’ put into action. The children learned about the importance of planting trees as a way of helping to bring about climate justice (正义) for many living in poorer nations and of course enjoyed planting the trees too.” The eventual hedge, which will grow to full size over ten years behind the Queen Elizabeth House, is made up of trees such as oaks, silver birches and so on.
Bob added, “The children were also able to help people living at Epilepsy Society because they will gain some well-needed privacy from the hedge in time. The natural wildlife benefits too from the fruits and nuts that a hedge made from native species can provide as well as the possibility for any number of nesting sites.”
Emma Darlington, Epilepsy Society’s volunteer officer, said, “I think it’s so important to encourage the younger generation that the future is in their hands and that they can make a difference, whether it is through taking part in projects like this or spreading awareness. We hope they learn a little bit about the work we do at Epilepsy Society too — the trees they planted will be enjoyed by everyone here for years to come.”
1. What is the purpose of the Plant-for-the-Planet project?| A．To help children learn more about society. |
| B．To offer children colourful after-school activities. |
| C．To raise children’s awareness of global warming. |
| D．To teach children how to protect natural wildlife. |
| A．Separate. | B．Take. | C．Get. | D．Protect. |
| A．Tired. | B．Proud. | C．Discouraged. | D．Peaceful. |
| A．She hopes to popularise volunteering work. |
| B．She tries to drive the children to study hard. |
| C．She expects the children to take positive action. |
| D．She believes the younger generation are promising. |
【推荐2】What do ten dollars, a garden, and Elon-Musk’s brother have in common? They’re used to fight against food insecurity (不安全) and build the world’s only biggest gardener community. Launched on the autumn equinox (秋分), the Million Gardens Movement (MGM) is a charitable and educational plan that hopes to put a garden in every family.
Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s brother and the Executive Director of the non-profit Big Green, hoped that the MGM puts Little Green Garden units in homes and classrooms for just $10. He explains that each garden has its special growing plan and online lessons and activities to support the growth of culture-related vegetable gardens at home.
The MGM platform is simple as a whole. If you’re a gardener, sign up to join the community. Donate $10 to a family that can’t afford a garden, or that lives in a food desert, read and contribute to the blog and then tell other gardeners about it.
“Ten years ago, I co-founded Big Green focusing on under-resourced communities to increase access to fresh food,” says Musk. “Today it’s a national non-profit organization working with schools in several major cities with almost 640 outdoor leaning garden classrooms. The Million Gardens Movement is put forward to make it simple for anyone to give a family a garden. Planting a seed is an act of hope for a brighter tomorrow. We hope millions of people will join us to grow their own gardens and give a garden to a family.”
They’ve been able to deliver garden kits to Denver, Detroit, Memphis and Indianapolis so far. “We hope to expand to Canada this year with sights on Vancouver and Toronto,” adds Musk. “We also hope to expand to Mexico and beyond to make this a worldwide movement to encourage millions of people to grow their own food.”
1. What can we know about the Little Green Garden of the MGM?| A．Gardeners will offer support in person. |
| B．A family must pay $10 to get a garden. |
| C．Related lessons and activities will be provided. |
| D．Different gardens share the same growing plans. |
| A．Who will receive the donation. | B．Why the MGM platform was founded. |
| C．How you can help on the MGM platform. | D．What you can get on the MGM platform. |
| A．Encourage people to donate more. | B．Persuade people to eat healthy food. |
| C．Make children learn more about gardening. | D．Expand the movement to other countries. |
| A．To promote a green life. | B．To raise money for a movement. |
| C．To introduce a newly-launched project. | D．To stress the importance of food security. |
【推荐3】After shopping for deals in stores on “Black Friday”, or online on “Cyber Monday”, Americans and people worldwide are preparing for newly popular “Giving Tuesday”. Starting in 2012, now the global event that is celebrated annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving is the brainchild of 92nd Street Y, a cultural center in New York City and the United Nations Foundation.
As the name indicates, Giving Tuesday is meant to restart the charitable season and therefore is observed by raising funds for local non-profit organizations and schools, organizing food and clothing drives, and conducting random acts of kindness. In 2015, 700, 000 people from 71 countries came together to donate $116.7 million in cash. An additional $1.08 million was spent on gifts.
While the easiest way to participate is by donating to your favorite charity, this day can be celebrated in many other ways too. You can give back by volunteering at your local shelter or food bank, or even by donating blood. If all else fails, a purchase from the growing number of organizations that give a portion of their sales to charity will do the trick.
But perhaps the best way to celebrate the day is those nearest and dearest to you. Assist a family member with a simple chore like folding laundry, cooking dinner, or even reading to a younger sibling. No matter what you do, be sure to share your good deeds on social media and inspire others to celebrate Giving Tuesday as well!
1. Which of the following has the shortest history?| A．Cyber Monday | B．Thanksgiving Day |
| C．Black Friday | D．Giving Tuesday |
| A．To persuade more people to shop online |
| B．To encourage more people to do charities |
| C．To make Thanksgiving Day enjoyable |
| D．To get voluntary work better known |
| A．To make Giving Tuesday more popular |
| B．To keep a record of one’s experience |
| C．To donate money to local schools |
| D．To help people make new friends |
【推荐1】Most Beautiful of All
| A．They smelled wonderful and crunched (发出碎裂声) under our feet as we walked along. |
| B．Then, she approached and asked us whether we had any trash. |
| C．I decided to take my sons for a walk the other day. |
| D．As is often the case, we are too busy to find the beauty of nature. |
| E．As we turned a corner along the walking trail, I noticed a woman slowly making her way towards us. |
| F．Of all the things I saw that day, she was the most beautiful. |
| G．Then, quickly and neatly, she placed it in the trash bag. |
【推荐2】Every year, over 17 trillion pounds of plastic are washed into the oceans, making five huge areas in the world’s oceans “soups” of floating trash. One of these areas, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is three times as large as France.
Over a year ago, a group called Ocean Cleanup began using a huge floating screen (隔板) to try to clean up plastic pollution in the ocean. After several failures, the group is now collecting plastic. But the plastic is spread out over a large area, so it’s impossible to collect it piece by piece. Ocean Cleanup’s plan is to gather up the floating plastic, making it easier to remove.
Boyan Slat, a member of Ocean Cleanup, got the idea for the Ocean Cleanup system: a 2,000-foot-long floating U-shaped tube with a screen hanging below it. As the tube and screen are pushed by the water and the wind, the U tube is meant to collect plastic trash, making it easy for a ship to collect and remove the plastic. The system uses the power of the wind and ocean, so it doesn’t need fuel.
The group began testing the first version, called “System 001”, in September, 2018. But it soon became clear that the screen was just moving with the plastic, not collecting it. But Mr. Slat saw the project as an experiment, which meant a failure is a chance to learn. The team collected and studied lots of information about what worked well and what didn’t. Then they changed the design. In last June, an improved version, called “System 001/B” was born.
The new version has a parachute (降落伞) attached to it. This makes the system move slightly slower than the plastic, allowing plastic to be collected inside, as planned. System 001/B is now collecting plastic of all sizes, from a large fishing net to tiny bits of plastic as small as 1 millimeter.
But this success is still just the beginning of the work for Ocean Cleanup. Now the group want to use what they’ve learned to design a better and larger system that can collect plastic for up to a year before a ship comes to remove it.
1. What was the problem that Ocean Cleanup faced at first?| A．The plastic was hard to collect. | B．The rubbish was too much. |
| C．They lacked good screens. | D．They had few members. |
| A．It proved to be a success. | B．It was connected to a ship. |
| C．It was environmentally friendly. | D．It collected plastic piece by piece. |
| A．Recycle clear plastic. | B．Work longer on the sea. |
| C．Have wide applications. | D．Collect tinier bits of plastic. |
| A．A magazine. | B．A guidebook. |
| C．A science fiction. | D．A diary. |
【推荐3】Xu Hai’ou has spent most of her life promoting environmental protection work in Beihai, a coastal city in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, by cleaning beaches, protecting mi-grant birds and recycling kitchen waste.
Though her family originally comes from the eastern province of Shandong, the 60-year-old was raised in Guangxi and moved to Beihai for work at age 23, directly after graduating from college. Before she retired, she worked as a reporter for the Guangxi Daily Media Group, a news outlet in the region. In her free time, she became involved in voluntary work.
“In initially, in the 1990s, I helped impoverished children in Guangxi’s rural areas obtain financial aid from donors in Hong Kong, and set up my own NGO in 2004. At the time, it was Beihai’s only nonprofit social organization involved in volunteer work,” she said, “It’s very enjoyable to do this charity work and I have made many friends through it.”
She said her NGO focuses on environmental protection work and organizes a range of voluntary activities, including cleaning up beaches, and protecting mangrove forests and migratory birds.
In 2008, the organization joined a marine life protection event supported by the central government, the UN Environment Programme and the Global Environmental Facility.
Xu and her colleagues at the association arranged a number of voluntary events such as raising awareness of marine biodiversity among local residents and students, and beach-cleaning activities to help promote understanding of the need to protect marine animals and plants.
“Undertaking voluntary activities or charitable work has become my mission, and I want to contribute my own efforts to the nation’s environmental protection work, even if they only produce a small improvement. However, protecting the environment is very hard work. which can’t be done by a single person. I sometimes feel like my ability falls short of my wishes.”
According to Xu, her NGO is currently promoting the classification of waste in Beihai and recycling kitchen waste into compost. “We have mature technologies, but still face difficulties in promoting the program because many residents lack awareness of environmental protection. We hope the government can figure out better ways of managing the garbage after we classify it to make full use of this ‘waste’.”
1. What can we learn about Xu Hai’ou from the first two paragraphs?| A．She grew up in Shandong Province. |
| B．She graduated in Beihai at the age of 23. |
| C．She works as a journalist for a newspaper at present. |
| D．She is a retired reporter volunteering to protect the environment. |
| A．Rewarding. | B．Exhausting. | C．Amazing. | D．Embarrassing. |
| A．To clean beaches and recycle kitchen waste. |
| B．To get support from the central government. |
| C．To raise people’s awareness of marine biodiversity. |
| D．To help people understand the necessity of protecting marine life. |
| A．She wants to win a good reputation. |
| B．She wants to do what others don’t want to do. |
| C．She wants to do her part to protect the environment. |
| D．She wants to make the most of kitchen waste on her own. |
【推荐1】How cool can libraries be in an era（时代）of iPods and Kindles? More than you think. Only if you knew where to go.
Central Library: Seattle, Washington, United States
The Central Library in Seattle is modern and fashionable and has tourists from around the world paying visits and taking tours. It was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and American designer Joshua Ramus. Tours began in 2006, two years after its opening. The library holds various art exhibitions, booking signings and other events, while visitors can stop by the Chocolate cart for a coffee and scan through the gift shops anytime.
Trinity College Library: Dublin, Ireland
The Trinity College Library in Dublin is the oldest library in Ireland, founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I. It is the largest single library in the world, also known as the Long Room, which contains more than 200,000 of the library's oldest books. The Long Room has one of the oldest harps（竖琴）in Ireland. Dating to the 15th century, the old harp is the model for the symbol of Ireland.
Geise Library, University of California: San Diego, United States
At first glance, it looks like a spaceship. Architect William Pereira, who helped design actual space launch facilities at Cape Canaveral in Houston, Texas, designed the library in 1970. It has been featured in sci-fi films, short stories and novels. The library hosts "Dinner in the library", which invites readers for cocktails, and also a special speech from distinguished（卓越的）authors.
Tu Delft Library: Delft, Netherlands
The library at the Delft University of Technology was constructed in 1997 and has more than 862,000 books, 16,000 magazines and its own museum. The building itself exists beneath the ground, so you can't really see the actual library. What makes it interesting is the roof, which is a grassy hill. The roof covers 5,500 square meters. And it has become one of the most striking and greenest structures in the area.
1. In Central Library, you can________.| A．buy gifts | B．drink cocktails |
| C．enjoy sci-fi films | D．see the old harps |
| A．Central Library. | B．Trinity College Library. |
| C．Geise Library. | D．TU Delft Library. |
| A．it has a roof of grassy hill |
| B．it is the largest single library in the world |
| C．Queen Elizabeth I found the library. |
| D．famous writers often deliver speeches there |
【推荐2】Museum of International Cultures
A Center for Global Awareness and Understanding
International Film Series
The International Film Series is a year-long celebration of various cultures.
The series is held on the 4th Saturday of a month, alternating with the Cultural Dinner & Lecture Series every other month.
Both the film series and cultural dinner and lecture series begin at 7:00 p.m.
The International Film Series is hosted by Anne & Tim Perry.
Cost is Free.
CEF Workshop
The Chemical Education Foundation (CEF) is a professional development workshop designed to provide educators with methods for teaching chemistry concepts through hands-on learning and real-world connections.
To register for the free workshop, please send email to penny@acm.org with the following information: your name, your email address and telephone number, your school or group and its address, the grade levels you teach.
This free workshop for educators will be held on Saturday January 20, 2020. Sign-in starts at 9:30 a.m. and the workshop will run from 10:00 a.m. to noon.
Recharge Conference
This is a rolling one-day conference featuring community experts sharing information on health, finances, education, cooking, exercise tips, self-development, manhood, marriage and job searches.
Speakers include:
Clarence Davis, Opening Message on Connection;
Tonya Brown, “Trickeration 101,” with a message of strength and hope;
Darren Murphy, “Bug Straight Talk,” on overcoming addiction and restart new life;
Quinecka Ragsdale, “Demarcus Jones and The Solar Calendar,” on time travel and African/African American history;
Pastor Barry Jerking, “On The Road to Glory,” finding your life’s purpose as a man in society;
Oscar Ellis, on financing your business.
Cost is $10 in advance; $15 at the door, plus applicable fees.
1. How many times will the International Film Series be held in a year?| A．Twice. | B．3 times. | C．6 times. | D．12 times. |
| A．Young students. | B．Chemistry teachers. |
| C．Chemical scientists. | D．Industry workers. |
| A．Tonya Brown’s. | B．Darren Murphy’s. |
| C．Quinecka Ragsdale’s. | D．Pastor Barry Jerking’s. |
【推荐3】ISSI Advanced Adventurer Course
●2 sessions of 8h
●The AAC starts on every Wednesday and Saturday, lasting 2 days
●Fees: $450
Exploration, Excitement, Experiences
That’s what the Advanced Adventurer course is all about. You don’t have to be “advanced” to take it — it’s designed to advance your diving, so you can start right after earning your Open Water Diver certification. The course helps build confidence and expand your scuba skills through different Adventure Dives.
Who should take this course?
Open Water Divers who are at least 12 years old are ready to step up and sign up for an Advanced Adventurer course. Divers under 18 may only participate in certain Adventures Dives — check with your SSI Instructor.
What will you learn?
You’ll plan your learning path with your instructor by choosing from a long list of Adventure Dives. There are two required dives — Deep and Underwater Navigation — and you choose the other three. During the Deep Adventure Dive, you learn bow to plan dives to deal with the physiological effects and challenges of deeper scuba diving. The Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive helps improve your navigation skills. The other knowledge and skills you get vary with your interest and the adventures you have — photography, fish identification, exploring wrecks and many more.
What scuba equipment will you use?
Beyond basic scuba equipment, you’ll need a compass and a dive knife. You may also use specialized equipment depending on the Adventure Dives you choose. Your SSI Instructor will explain the equipment that you need and ma suggest additional equipment.
1. On which of the following dates can you take the course?| A．From Friday to Saturday. | B．From Saturday to Sunday. |
| C．From Tuesday to Wednesday. | D．From Wednesday to Saturday. |
| A．Open Water Diver certification. | B．Expensive diving equipment |
| C．Advanced scuba skills. | D．Reaching adulthood. |
| A．2. | B．3. | C．5. | D．7. |
