When the monthly electricity bill came home, parents always couldn’t believe their eyes, as the amount was much more than needed.
Switch off the lights. Assign one day in a week for a “turn off” practice, for a few hours. Tell the kids the significance of using less electricity and how it impacts the environment.
Use energy-efficient transportation. When parents and their children are out on vacation, have a cycling outing. When the whole family rides bicycles together, it not only serves as a great bonding exercise, but it also teaches the children about eco-friendly transportation options.
Play a game.
A.Watch an environmental film. |
B.Talk with children about their opinions. |
C.Play some games related to environmental protection. |
D.Lecturing kids about environmental issues won’t help. |
E.It makes them aware of the environmental effect of cars. |
F.Light up some candles and play a board game to keep the children occupied. |
G.So parents should urge their children to take up environment -friendly projects. |
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【推荐1】The Louvre is the most popular museum in the world. Last year, about 10 million visitors, more than 75% of whom were foreign tourists, came to the museum. About 80% of them were here for Mona Lisa-and most of them left unhappy.
According to a survey of British tourists earlier this year, Mona Lisa was voted the world’s most disappointing attraction, beating out Checkpoint Charlie, Spanish Steps, and Urinating Boy in Brussels.
If the museum thinks that it is inspiring the next generation of art lovers, it is in fact doing the opposite, thanks to the huge crowds in front of the picture. The overcrowding here was so bad that Jean-Luc Martinez, the museum’s director, has to admit, “We have to take steps to deal with the overcrowding in the coming years: new entrances and timed tickets for the museum.”
He misunderstands the problem-for the Louvre, with more gallery space than any museum on the planet, isn’t that crowed. On my last visit, the French painting wing had just a few visitors. Even Venus de Milo, perhaps the second most famous work of art in the museum, only drew a comfortable few dozen visitors. In other words, the Louvre does not have an overcrowding problem. It has a Mona Lisa problem. No other famous painting comes anywhere close to monopolizing (垄断) a museum like she does. It is time for the Louvre to admit its failure. The museum does not need new entrances or timed tickets.
Instead, it only needs to set up a moving walkway in front of Mona Lisa and let Samsung or another smartphone company to fix its cutest cameras around her. So visitors can strike a pose on the moving walkway, and download their cutest selfies (自拍像) with Mona Lisa later. I can even picture the moving walkway smoothly guiding tourists past the Mona Lisa into the gift shops, where millions of selfiers can take time to enjoy their pictures, and spend money.
It is time to set it up now since the 2024 Summer Olympics is around the comer.
1. Which was the most disappointing attraction according to the survey? ________A.Mona Lisa. | B.Venus de Milo. | C.Spanish Steps. | D.Urinating Boy. |
A.Amazing. | B.Practical. | C.Expensive. | D.Unworkable. |
A.A lot of visitors stay there to appreciate it. | B.The room housing the picture is too small. |
C.Too many visitors want to take a picture with it. | D.The ticket for the famous painting is too cheap. |
A.To share his unpleasant visit to the Louvre. |
B.To introduce a famous painting in a museum. |
C.To offer a simple solution to the Mona Lisa problem. |
D.To show the opportunity brought by the 2024 Olympics. |
【推荐2】How to be more organized
You’re in danger of missing a deadline, your important files are never where you thought they were, and it’s a lottery (彩票) whether you’ll even have clean clothes to wear tomorrow! Sound familiar? You can lose a great deal of time to disorganization. The more you can live and work in an organized way, the sooner you’ll change your habits for the better.
Celebrate small wins. For example, if you complete three things on your to-do list, treat yourself to a cup of coffee, or allow yourself 10 minutes of free time.
Use one calendar. If you record some things on your desk planner, and others on your email calendar, it’s going to be hard to organize everything.
Schedule small tasks. If a task or project requires action beforehand (like sending out an agenda before a meeting), make sure that you schedule those into your day, too.
Get organized at home. Don’t just restrict your organized approach to work.
A.Put a high value on your time. |
B.Strike a balance between your work and life. |
C.Here are five everyday strategies worth trying. |
D.A chaotic home life will bring its own problems. |
E.Instead, you should start putting it all in one place. |
F.Missing small jobs can have big knock-on effects on everything else. |
G.For some people, a paper notebook is still the best way to stay in control of plans. |
【推荐3】How to prepare for an exam is a big question that you always ask yourself. Here are some tips that may help you.
Never fear or hate exam and be confident.
Some students study well but still may be much afraid of exams and due to this reason they get upset and won’t be able to get marks.
Prepare a good timetable.
Prepare a timetable before starting the study.
Select a proper atmosphere for studying.
Studying atmosphere plays a very important role. Can anyone study well while others around are watching TV? So pick a place where you feel comfortable.
Make notes while studying.
This is a very important point. While studying, make small notes. The note should be short and clear to make the review easier.
On the night before exam you have to sleep well, at least 6 hours and not more than 8 hours. Remember this will have a great effect on your exam. And have your food as in your daily diet.
A.Have a sound sleep. |
B.Sleep well and eat well. |
C.This should include all the subjects. |
D.This will be of great use to your coming exams. |
E.A good note shall include the most important points. |
F.So leave all your fears and free your mind before starting the study. |
G.That is where you feel relaxed and can pay attention to what you are doing. |
【推荐1】A food service app is allowing customers to buy restaurant food at a low price before it goes into the waste bin.
Too Good To Go provides buyers with a bag of nearly wasted, but perfectly good food for takeaways as a way to cut food waste and help support the restaurant industry.
It is also easier for the restaurants since it's nearly impossible to guess and predict what will be available at the end of any night. Decomposing(分解)food in landfills is a major source of methane(甲烷), which can cause climate—related damage before completely decomposing after a decade. “We think we can save more than 2 million meals from the trash in the U.S. in 2021.
A.We are also making a lot of money. |
B.Each day the app helps save incredible food waste. |
C.We are also avoiding thousands of tons of emissions(排放物). |
D.It's impossible to know how much food will be wasted. |
E.These meals can be thrown into the garbage in a few hours. |
F.It's impossible to know how much food will end up in landfills. |
G.Unlike other apps, it offers only bags of whatever food the restaurants have. |
【推荐2】Plastic waste is choking our planet. People are trying to help fix it by recycling, but their efforts aren’t going far enough. Even when plastic producers are held responsible and attempt to solve the problem, it doesn’t always go smoothly. Such has been the case for the company Torus Pak, which produces novel packaging for frozen meals on a large scale.
Like many other black plastic products, the Torus Pak packages used a carbon-based pigment (颜料). This pigment troubles the sorting technology which is used by many recycling facilities, so black plastic usually ends up being thrown away because the machines can’t identify it. Now the company is midway through the complex process of phasing out that pigment and switching that pigment to one that doesn’t use carbon.
But that doesn’t mean the problem is solved, for the recycling rate at the waste facility itself is not encouraging. Your discarded plastic may end up in a landfill even if you send it to be recycled. Worldwide, only about nine percent of all the plastic waste has been recycled, which amounts to less than 600 million tons out of over 6 billion. While one might assume the proportion of plastic being recycled is on the increase due to improved tech and increased public awareness of environmental protection, it’s actually become even lower in many places in recent years.
“The world wasn’t always flooded with single-use plastic products,” said Lisa Ramsden, senior plastic campaigner for Greenpeace USA. “We know how to live without them. We’ve just got used to a convenience culture that relies so heavily on them.”
The solution is obvious. To get out of this habit, we should stop using so much plastic, starting with many of the items we use just once for a few minutes. Companies need to shift toward using more refillable and reusable containers, and packaging made from materials that are less harmful to the environment. Governments must mandate (强制执行) such changes a goal we’re now finally inching closer to every day.
1. What is the problem with Torus Pak packages?A.They are expensive for customers. |
B.Their production process is complex. |
C.Their pigment is hardly appealing. |
D.They are hard to define recyclable. |
A.The reason for recycling plastic waste. |
B.The potential of recycling plastic waste. |
C.The outcome of recycling plastic waste. |
D.The objective of recycling plastic waste. |
A.Advancing recycling technology. |
B.Reducing the use of plastic products. |
C.Setting higher environmental goals. |
D.Making some stricter relevant laws. |
A.Recycling fail to solve plastic pollution. |
B.A company contributes a lot to recycling. |
C.Great changes happen in recycling plastic. |
D.Plastic pollution is increasingly worsening. |
【推荐3】The newly-elected president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro says that his country should withdraw (退出) from the 2015 Paris Agreement, and that Brazil’s rainforest protections are standing in the way of economic success. During the election campaign, he promised to ease protections for areas of the Brazilian Amazon set aside for native people and wildlife. Are Brazil’s rainforests in danger?
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, is called “the lungs of the planet.” Each tree takes in and stores carbon dioxide from the air around it. Billions of trees pull up water through their roots and release water vapor into the air, forming tiny drops of water. The Amazon creates 30 to 50 percent of its own rainfall. Carlos Nobre, a climate scientist, says that it is almost impossible to say Just how important the rainforest is to the planet’s living systems.
Some of Bolsonaro’s support comes from business and farming groups. One supporter, Luiz Carlos, noted that farmers “are not invaders, they are producers.” He blamed the past government for supporting rainforest protections at the cost of farmers. “Brazil,” he said, “will be the biggest farming nation on Earth during Bolsonaro’s years.”
Paulo Artaxo, a professor of environmental physics at the University of Sao Paulo, says that if Bolsonaro keeps his campaign promises, then “deforestation of the Amazon will probably increase quickly — and the effects will be felt everywhere on the planet.”
Other scientists warn that if the Amazon and other tropical rainforests lose too many trees, this could affect rainfall in other areas. Without enough trees to support the rainfall, the longer and bigger dry season could turn more than half of the rainforest into a tropical grassland.
1. The first paragraph is intended to ________.A.draw people’s attention to the disappearing rainforests |
B.ask people to ease the protection of rainforests |
C.attract the public to the newly-elected president |
D.to complain about the new government's withdrawing |
A.produce much farmland |
B.examine people’s lungs |
C.change the earth’s living system |
D.destroy farmers’ crops |
A.The new president’s supporters care less about farmers. |
B.Scientists are concerned about the protection of rainforests. |
C.The rainforests will stop the economic development in Brazil. |
D.The past government is to blame for the destruction of rainforests |
A.a newspaper |
B.a magazine |
C.a guidebook |
D.a textbook |