Are you ready to take action to protect Planet Earth? You may think it impossible, but you can begin by taking some small, but important, first steps. Many children and their classes in the USA are taking action.
Children Campaign Against Waste
Children are paying attention to the packaging(包装)of the things they buy. Packaging includes all the things you throw away when you unwrap anything new. One third of all rubbish is packaging. Mrs Perez’s 4th grade class decides to make their school and neighbourhood know the waste in packaging. They want people to think before they buy. They also want to let people who make the products know that they want less waste in packaging. So they start a campaign to help people change how they shop.
Class Project: Campaign Against Waste
*Find out the facts. Use the websites to find out how much waste comes from packaging.
*Go on a trip to the shops. Take notes about how products, such as CDS, are packaged. Report on how much will be thrown away.
*Say no to bags. If we don't need one, we don't use one.
*Make posters to tell others what they can do.
*Talk to our families and friends about what we learn.
*Write class letters to the people who produce our favourite products. Ask them to reduce packaging.
Children Save Water
Another class decides to help save water. Here's how they get started.
Miguel Salazar lives in Meridian, Texas. Every day he walks home from school and passes Carrollton Creek(小溪). The creek is filled with rubbish. But the creek is not always this way Miguel's grandfather remembers flowers and plants grew along it and many people fished there in the past. So Miguel's class decides to clean up the creek. They make a plan.
Class Project: Creek Clean Up
* Write a letter to the mayor(市长)asking her to let us have a clean-up day at Carrolton Creek. Ask her for garbage cans to keep rubbish.
*Make posters inviting others to help.
*Ask parents to come along and help on Clean-Up Day.
*Choose a day for the big Clean-Up!
If one person can make a difference, think how much more can get done if people work together to care for Planet Earth.
46. The children in Mrs Perez’s class start the campaign against________.
A.water | B.waste | C.shopping | D.fishing |
47. Miguel’s class project is to________.
A.stop packaging | B.go on a trip |
C.clean up Carrollton Creek | D.talk to families and friends |
48. The underlined phrase “garbage cans” means “________” in Chinese.
49. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A.There were flowers and plants along the creek in the past |
B.One third of all rubbish is packaging. |
C.Children use posters and letters to help with their work |
D.Mrs Perez’s class wants to choose a day for not using bags. |
50. What's the main idea of the passage?
A.Children can use the websites to find out the facts. |
B.People liked to fish along Carrollton Creek in the past |
C.Everyone can do something small to help save Planet Earth. |
D.The mayor in Meridian can help the children with their project. |