June 5 is World Environment Day. This makes us pay more attention to our environment and the need to protect it.

When Wang Boxuan, a Yancheng high schoolboy, uses up (用尽) his exercise books, he does not throw them away. Each one is stored at his school with hundreds of exercise books given by other students. Then they are sold to a Yancheng paper making factory.

The paper is recycled and used again by students and teachers in the school. At the same time, the money made from the sales goes towards schools in Inner Mongolia for planting trees and grass. This place is one of the sources (源头) of the sandstorms that often attack Beijing during springtime.

Wang’s school is one of the schools in the city that take part in the “green promise (承诺)” environmental protection activity. So far, nearly 210,000 students have taken part in the activity, collecting more than 87 tons (吨) of waste paper.

With the Olympic Games coming to Beijing in 2008, students are eager (渴望) to help make the capital a more pleasant place.

“There are some environment problems in the city, such as sandstorms,” said Wang. “We should do our duty and encourage others to do so as well.”

Tens of thousands of people of Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province took part in the funeral (葬礼) of “the most beautiful driver” Wu Bin on June 4, 2012.     94    

At noon on May 29, he drove the Zhejiang A19115 large bus from Wuxi back to Hangzhou, carrying 24 passengers.     95     It hit Wu in the abdomen (腹部). He looked very painful and put the right hand over the abdomen, then drove slowly down, stopped at the side of the road, playing two flashing lights to let other drivers be careful, and pulled a good handbrake (拉好手刹). At last he tried his best to stand up, turned to the frightened passengers and said: “    96    ”

The passengers saw he couldn’t speak and blood kept running from his abdomen. At once they called the police. Wu Bin was later sent to Wuxi Liberation Army 101 Hospital.     97     But he saved 24 passengers’ lives on his bus.     98