【推荐1】If you’re looking for something fun to do, pack a picnic dinner and take your family or friends to a beautiful place to eat. However, there’s a wrong trend—viewing picnics as an excuse to transport food in single-use plastic containers. Sure, it means the clean-up is easy at the moment, but it just puts it off to a later point, when it takes the form of the volunteer clean-up and landfill management.     1     What follows is advice on how to pack such a picnic.

●Use food containers wisely

Using reusable containers is the easiest way to reduce waste.     2     For example, to reduce packaging, you can take along things like a loaf of bread, a whole watermelon, whole vegetables, a knife and a board to cut your food when you’re ready to eat. These things don’t have to be done and sealed before you leave the house.

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Using washable dishes for a picnic does not require much more work than single-use ones. You’d have to carry the waste out anyway in a trash bag, so why not pack your dirty plates into a bag and put them in the dishwasher at home? If you’re worried about breaking, take some solid camping plates.

●Think about the drinks

Forget the single-use, single-serve drink bottles.     4     Fill personal water bottles with water, juice or lemonade at home. Compared with a single-use plastic cup, they have the added advantage of keeping your drinks cold for longer.

●Put cloth bags to good use

Cloth bags are amazing. I use them for so much more than just buying food at the store. They’re perfect for packing sandwiches, dried or fresh fruit, and other snack foods. You can use them to pack glasses or plates to prevent breaking. They can also work as a napkin, tea towel, or garbage bag if needed.     5    

A．Clean up the waste

B．Avoid plastic plates

C．Be sure to add a few to your picnic basket.

D．There are some healthy dishes you can make or buy.

E．To prevent this, a plastic-free picnic can be a brilliant idea.

F．These create a huge amount of waste, which can be easily avoided.

G．In addition, keep in mind that you don’t have to pre-pack everything.

【推荐3】Rubbish is a major kind of environmental pollution. Each person produces about two kilograms of rubbish in our homes a day. And this is only a small part of all the rubbish we produce. We also create waste in industry.

Have you wondered what happens to the rubbish? Most of it is buried in landfills (垃圾填埋地) or burned. Less than 25% of our waste is recycled.

A landfill is carefully designed and it is built into or on top of the ground. Rubbish buried in landfills is cut off from the surrounding environment (groundwater, air, rain, etc).

One problem with landfills is that they cover a lot of land space. If they are not well-built, there is a high risk of polluting the land and water. Some people also say that landfills remove materials for ever. As a result, the materials that can be reused are wasted.

Burning rubbish in factories is another way to cut out waste. Burning reduces 95% of the waste. And if poisonous materials are removed, and burning is completed at controlled temperatures, it is possible to do so without causing too much pollution. Some factories could even produce electricity from the burning process.

Not all of the rubbish can be burned, so we have to separate it before we burn it. However, separation costs a lot of money. Another problem with burning rubbish is that what is left after burning is poisonous. How to safely deal with it is a continuing problem.

Before the mid-20th century, landfills were the main way to deal with waste. In the late 20th century, other ways like recycling have been introduced to help reduce global pollution.

Maybe in the near future, with combined efforts, scientists will find a better way to dispose rubbish and cut out waste, like recycling things. But anyway, mountains of rubbish from life every day is a huge burden for any country.

1. What is the advantage of burying rubbish in landfills?

A．Producing electricity.

B．Reusing the materials buried in landfills.

C．Reducing 95% of the waste.

D．Cutting off rubbish from the surrounding environment.

2. Paragraph 6 is mainly about _________.

A．the separation of rubbish	B．the problems with burning rubbish
C．the safety of burning rubbish	D．the cost of burning rubbish

3. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.

A．rubbish should be separated when it is burning

B．landfills are too dangerous to be built too many

C．there’re advantages and disadvantages about burning rubbish

D．developed countries are better at dealing with rubbish

4. After the last paragraph, what is the author likely to talk about next?

A．Pollution.	B．Landfills.
C．Recycling.	D．Environment.

【推荐1】“The pen is more powerful than the sword（剑）.” There have been many writers who used their pens to fight things that were wrong. Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them.

She was born in the U.S.A. in 1811.One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freeing the enslaved race. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won.

This book that shook the world was called Uncle Tom's Cabin. There was time when almost every English-speaking man, woman, and child has read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting. The book has shown us how a warm-hearted writer can arouse people's sympathies. The author herself had neither been to the Southern States nor been a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the book, which they said did not at all represent true state of affairs, but the Northern Americans were wildly excited over it and were so inspired by it that they were ready to go to war to set the slaves free.

1. According to the passage ________.

A．Uncle Tom's Cabin was not very interesting

B．every English-speaking person has read Uncle Tom's Cabin

C．those who don't speak English cannot have read Uncle Tom's Cabin

D．the book Uncle Tom's Cabin did a great deal in the American Civil War

2. What do you learn about Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe from the passage?

A．She had been living in the north of America before the Civil War broke out.

B．She encouraged the Northern Americans to go to war to set the slaves free.

C．She was better as writing as swinging (挥舞) a sword.

D．She had once been a slave.

3. Why could Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe's book cause a civil war in America?

A．She wrote so well that Americans loved her very much.

B．She uncovered the terrible wrongs done to the slaves in the Southern States.

C．The Southern Americans hated the book while the Northern Americans like it.

D．The book had been read by many Americans.

4. What can we learn from the passage?

A．We needn't use weapons (武器) to fight things that are wrong.

B．A writer is more helpful in a war than a soldier.

C．We must understand the importance of literature and art.

D．No war can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom's Cabin.

5. What is the best title of this passage?

A．American civil war	B．Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C．A war-arousing writer	D．Pen, a fighting weapon

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Two decades since the founder of Zappos first put forward the idea of selling shoes via the Internet and struggled to convince investors（投资人）, e-commerce, or online shopping, has taken over. If there's one thing Zappos has taught us, it's that customer experience matters. The retail giant got ahead by encouraging customers to order multiple sizes of the same product, and then providing a free and easy way to return whatever didn't fit.

Today, chatbots and mobile apps allow online retailers to ensure customer success. Machine learning technologies also provide personalized recommendations based on a user' s search history. And overnight delivery has become commonplace. Even so, some aspects of the in-store experience go missing when shopping in the digital world.

Fortunately, we have live commerce. By combining e-commerce with live streaming, live commerce helps improve participation, bridge the gap between customers and products, drive sales, and, in cases where bidding is involved, increase the average sales price.

This trend controls the market in China. Taobao, the world's biggest e-commerce website, gives the power to farmers, business owners, and self-employed entrepreneurs with consumer-to-consumer live streaming. Successful influencers on Taobao rise to celebrity-like status, helping promote the shopping experience. Beyond just generating fans, top sellers like Li Jiaqi and Weiya bring home serious money

Danielle Bailey, managing vice president of intelligence firm 12 Inc.. once put it, "China used to be thought of as a copycat…but now more western tech and retail leaders are being inspired by the all-channel retail, social commerce, and mobile commerce innovations in China.”

1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?

A．To arouse readers' interest in the topic of the text.

B．To attract people' s attention to live commerce

C．To suggest people need help from high technology.

D．To show it's easy to get things done with a computer.

2. In what aspect did Zappos do better than other retail companies?

A．It offered fast free return shipping.

B．It provided shoes that fit a customer best.

C．It stressed the fulfillment of consumers' needs.

D．It received large amounts of money from investors.

3. What is the main difference between live commerce and e-commerce?

A．Big names in live commerce are more famous.

B．Top sellers in live commerce make more money

C．E-commerce involves less in-person experience

D．E-commerce includes a smaller range of people.

4. What can we infer from Danielle Bailey' s words?

A．China copies what other countries do.

B．Western world falls behind in business.

C．China is the most creative country in the world

D．China is taking the lead in live streaming business.

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