Governments around the world are pushing for an end to plastic straws (吸管) and bags. More and more businesses are turning to paper products as a choice. As a kind of material, paper is widely considered to be greener than plastic. However, it may come as a surprise when we find out the truth.
Firstly, paper bags and straws are made from trees. Trees, as we all know, can reduce carbon dioxide (减少二氧化碳) levels in the air. They can slow down climate (气候) change. The use of more paper bags can lead to more acts of cutting down trees.
Secondly, products made of paper require more energy and water. About 10% more energy and four times more water are used to produce a paper bag than to make a plastic one. You might say that we can use recycled paper to save that energy and water. This seems to be a good idea. However, it takes even more energy and water to go through the recycling process than to make a brand-new paper bag.
Thirdly, paper products are heavier than plastic ones. That means they require more oil to transport. Seven trucks are needed to transport two million paper bags, while to transport the same number of plastic bags, one truck is enough. Once the bags are thrown away, the increased weight also leads to a large amount of waste.
So, paper products are actually a lose-lose for both the environment and businesses. They are harmful to our planet, as well as the plastic ones. Is there anything we can do to protect our planet?
The most environment-friendly solution is to avoid single-use products. Products like glass bottles and steel straws can be reused easily. They are much more eco-friendly(对生态环境友好的) than either paper products or plastic ones. By increasing the usage of these products, we can greatly reduce the throw-away waste in our daily life and save more resources. If so, we can truly make our planet greener!
| How to make our planet greener | |
| Introduction | It is not |
| Explanations: why using paper products isn’t a good way | Require more energy and water. * *Making a brand-new paper bag takes Require more oil to transport *Transporting two million paper bags needs *The increased weight also leads to much waste once we |
| Conclusion | Paper products are actually a lose-lose for not only the environment but also businesses. Using |
| Avoiding single-use products is the most environment-friendly way. We can use products like glass water bottles and steel straws Reducing the throw-away waste can help save more resources. | |
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【推荐1】Usually, the Full Moon shines brightly all night long, lighting homes, trees, cities, and fields. Sometimes, though, a strange event happens. The Full Moon turns dark in a lunar eclipse. Lunar means “about the Moon”, and an eclipse is a blocking(遮蔽) of light.
A lunar eclipse often impresses people so much because the Moon is bright and nearby. It is the closest heavenly body(天体) to Earth. When the Moon turns dark, we notice! It’s closer to us than Mars or any other planet, and closer than the Sun or any other star. On average, the Moon is 239,000 miles away from Earth’s center. The Sun is almost 400 times farther.
What causes a lunar eclipse? The first key is that the Sun makes light, but the Moon doesn’t. When you see the Moon shining at night, you’re seeing sunlight bouncing off(反射) the Moon.
The second key is that the Moon, which is smaller than Earth, goes around us about once a month. Once a month, the moon is on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. Then the Sun fully lights the side of the Moon that we see. We call this event a Full Moon. That’s when the Moon shines brightest.
The third key is that, during a lunar eclipse, Earth gets in the way. When you go outside on a sunny day, your body blocks some of the sunlight and casts a shadow(投射影子) over things that lie on the opposite side of you from the Sun. Earth also casts a shadow, and sometimes it falls on the Moon. Then we have a lunar eclipse.
A lunar eclipse happens only during a Full Moon, since that’s the only time when Earth is between the Sun and the Moon. Usually, though, there’s no eclipse because the Full Moon passes above or below Earth’s shadow.
阅读以上信息，用恰当的单词完成下面的短文，每空一词。
The article introduces “lunar eclipse” to us. First it tells us the
At last, the article shows three keys cause a lunar eclipse. The first key is that the sunlight is seen bouncing off the Moon at night. The second key is that there should be a full Moon. The third key is that the
What is your dream life like in summer? It may be eating some watermelon in a house with an air conditioner (空调). Watermelons came from Africa. Later, they came to the west of China. Watermelons are very popular with Chinese people. Here are two reasons.
One is that watermelons have a good taste. And they have lots of vitamins (维生素) and minerals (矿物质). They are good for people’s health. People would think of watermelons first when they buy fruits in summer. The other is that most of the world’s watermelons are from China each year. In supermarkets, we can know that watermelons are cheap in China.
People are careful when buying watermelons. Most of them usually knock (敲) at them and the sound can tell which one tastes the best. However, there are many ways to eat watermelons. For most people, it is cool to enjoy half a watermelon just with a spoon. There are also some ways we don’t often use. For example, in Xinjiang, people eat watermelons around a stove (炉子) and in Hainan, people eat watermelons even with salt. No matter how we eat watermelons, they make our summer better.
The Watermelon | |
| The history of it | People in Africa first |
| The reasons why Chinese like it very much | It’s |
| The way most people buy and eat it | People knock at it and Most people eat it with a spoon. |
| Some of the special ways to eat it | People in Xinjiang eat watermelons around a stove. People in Hainan eat watermelons even with |
【推荐3】Have you ever taken PE classes with face masks(口罩), running, jumping, throwing? If so, that can be dangerous and risky.
When doing exercise or sports, breathing is faster and harder than at rest. It increases(增加) the risk of passing the disease on. As a result, people are considering having masks on, others may follow suit(跟着做), especially during the outbreak of COVID-19.
We know that exercise leads to faster and harder breaths, a mask makes it harder to take in enough air when you perform at the highest levels. At low to moderate-intensity(中低) exercise, effort will feel a bit harder than normal with a mask, but you still walk comfortably. The challenge appears to be more during heavy exercise, like rugby or football, taking in air at rates(率) of about 40-100 litres per minute.
When we do heavy exercise, our muscles(肌肉) produce lactic acid(乳酸), which causes the sense of burning. It is then turned into CO2 and stored. But what happens if the CO2 is stopped by the mask? As you move from moderate to heavy exercise, you may be re-breathing CO2. It can be bad for your health. There may also be less oxygen in the recycled air. It could be like exercising at highland. So it is important we get a better understanding of the limits(限定) of heavy exercise with masks.
1题完成句子；2、3题简略回答问题；4题找出并写下全文的主题句；5题将文中画线的句子译成汉语。
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2. Why do people wear masks to do sports?
3. Do you feel comfortable when doing light exercise with a mask?
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China was known as “the kingdom of bicycle” about 30 years ago. But with the development of society and economy, many people choose to drive cars and use the public transportation. Bike rental services are bringing bikes back. An increasing number of people are choosing riding instead of driving.
To use a shared bike, you just need a smart phone. All bikes have GPS, so you can find a bike through your smartphone easily. When you find a bike, you just need to scan a QR code on the bike, and then you can use it. And you can park it anywhere in public for the next user. Shared bikes help solve “last-mile” problems in cities. For example, many people find it difficult to get to the hotel when they get off trains or to travel around the city. Shared bikes provide them a good choice. Going green seems to be a fashion for more and more people.
Online rental services are making biking more convenient, but it’s still not easy to ride bikes in Chinese cities. Cars often take up bicycle lanes. Bikers have to ride next to cars in car lanes, which can be very dangerous. Also online rental services have led to some problems like wrong parking and vandalism (故意破坏).
Now, government and bike-sharing companies are trying to deal with these problems. Beijing plans to build over 3,200 km of new bike lanes. Drivers who drive in bike lanes will be punished. Traffic signs will be put up to better protect bikers. Mobike, the biggest bike-sharing company, sets a 100-point credit (信用) score for each user. The points will be taken if the user behave badly. Once the score drops below 80, bike rental will be increased from 1 yuan to 100 yuan per 30 minutes.
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[1] In recent years, plastic pollution has become one of the most serious environmental problems around the world. Many countries have been looking for ways for a better future. On November 7, 2022, China started a “bamboo instead of plastic” activity with the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan(INBAR国际竹藤组织). This will hopefully increase the use of green bamboo products and reduce(减少) plastic pollution.
[2] Bamboo is a renewable natural resource(资源) of great value. Unlike trees which usually need so long time to fully grow, bamboo can be harvested(收割) in 3 to 5 years. As long as it is protected well, bamboo can be cut every year and doesn’t have to be replanted. Bamboo can be used to ①________ different kinds of products. These products can take the place of plastic products in many fields, such as packaging(包装), building and daily things. Even a new bamboo washing machine has been invented in some ②________ areas where people don’t have electricity or money to buy traditional washing machines. It uses the natural flow of the water as power to run the machine. It’s believed that bamboo is a harmless material. It doesn’t cause any pollution when it has to be thrown away.
[3] China is one of the countries with the richest bamboo resources in the world. The Chinese are a pioneer in the use of bamboo. Provinces Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guizhou have set up companies to produce and develop bamboo products. What’s more, China is also sharing its technologies and experience to help other countries with rich bamboo resources. It is hoped that countries will work together ③________ green development around the world.
1. When did China start the “bamboo instead of plastic” activity? (No more than 4 words)2. Why did China start the “bamboo instead of plastic” activity? (No more than 16 words)
3. What is China sharing to help other countries with rich bamboo resources? (No more than 8 words)
4. Fill in each blank in the passage with one proper word.
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
6. What’s your opinion about using plastic products? Please write down your answer and list one or two reasons.
Food waste (食物残渣) is a big problem in Japan and the world. In 2019, Japan produced 5.7 million tons of food waste. The government is working on reducing this to 2.7 million by 2030.
Now, University of Tokyo researchers in Japan have created a new technology that uses food waste in a surprising way. Student Kota Machida and Professor Yuya Sakai say the operation can turn food waste into a strong material like cement (水泥). They say it is four times stronger than regular concrete and is sustainable. And you can eat it.
Through a process of drying, crushing, and compressing (压缩) the food waste, Sakai and his student Machida had successfully made cement from food waste without plastic. “The most challenging part was that each type of food waste requires different temperatures and pressure levels,” Sakai said.
The team have used different types of food waste to make the cement, including tea leaves, orange peels, coffee grounds, and leftover lunch materials. They’ve adjusted flavors with different spices and found the colors, smell and taste of the cement can be quite attractive.
Machida and his two friends have created a company called Fabula, Inc. They are working with other companies to use the material to make products for the home. “If this cement could replace plastic and cement products, it may help slow global warming linked to food waste,” said Machida.
1. Can we eat the food waste like cement?2. Who had successfully made cement from food waste without plastic?
3. What was the most difficult part to make the food waste without plastic?
4. How many types of food waste to make the cement are mentioned?
5. What do you think of the food cement?
You may have heard the saying “The Yangtze River is China’s mother river.” As the world’s third longest river, its valley（流域）covers one-fifth of China’s land area.
China passed the Yangtze River Protection Law（法律）in December, 2020. It is the first law to protect a waterway in China. It began being carried out on March 1, 2021.
The “mother river” is in great need of protection ① something is wrong with it. For example, because of overfishing and water pollution, the river’s Chinese paddle fish（白鲟）have completely disappeared after living for 150 million years. It is a pity that we can no longer see them in the Yangtze River.
The Yangtze River Protection Law includes bans（禁止）on activity that could be harmful to the river. It also includes much heavier punishments for those who don’t ② the law.
Under the law, fishing is banned in all of the Yangtze’s natural waterways. Those who are caught fishing there will be made to give 50,000 to 500,000 yuan as a punishment. Besides, sand mining（采沙）is strictly limited（限制）in the river valley. Many factories used to mine sand along the river. However, this led to low water levels on the river.
Factories along the river need to give special attention to green development from now on. Those factories that produce dangerous chemicals（化学品）have been ordered to move away. This can make a difference to the protection of the ecosystem of the Yangtze River.
任务一：请根据短文内容，分别写出①、②处所缺的词语。
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任务二：阅读短文，从短文中找出与下列句子意思相同或相近的句子。
2. It’s a shame, but we can’t see them in the Yangtze River any longer.
任务三：请把短文中划线部分的句子翻译成汉语。
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任务四：请根据短文内容回答下列问题。
4. When did the Yangtze River Protection Law begin being carried out?
5. What doesn’t the Yangtze River Protection Law allow people to do in the river?
ChaiJing, who worked for China Central Television (CCTV) from 2001 to 2013 as a TV reporter made a documentary(纪录片) named under the Dome （穹顶之下）to educate the public about smog. It is released（发行）online on March 1st, 2015.
In the opening of the documentary, Chai tells the story of her daughter with a begin turnor （良性肿瘤）before her birth. “ I couldn’t help worrying while seeing the polluted sky in Beijing,” she says. She only took her daughter outside when the air in Beijing was good. The rest of the time she had to keep her at home like a “prisoner（囚犯）”. And there were175 polluted days in 2014 in Beijing.
In the documentary, Chai had an interview with a six-year-old girl, WangHuiqin, who live in Shanxi Province, a heavily polluted area in China. The girl told Chai that she had never seen stars, blue skies or white clouds in her village.
Chai also went to London and Los Angeles, which had both suffered air pollution in the past, to learn how they had improved their environment.
Chai spent one year making this 103-minute film, which cost her over 1 million yuan. In the documentary, Chai tries to answer three questions. They are “ What is smog”, “ Where does it come from?” and “What should people do?” And she calls on everyone to get into the fight against smog.
The documentary Under the Dome | |
Producer | Chai Jing, who used to be a TV |
Release date | On March 1st, 2015 |
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cost | Over 1 million yuan |
purpose | To educate the public about |
contents | What is smog? Where does it come from? What should people do? |
Details | In the opening of the documentary, Chai tells the story of her |
Researchers said that in the past 100 years, as the global(全球的) temperatures went up by 0.74℃, the temperature in North China has climbed 1.4℃ in only 50 years.
China needs to cut down carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) emission(排放), because it’s the main reason for global warming. The good news is that China has seen the importance of going green. China has set the goal of cutting energy use down and stop air pollution.
Can you slow down global warming? Sure! You and your family can do many things to cut down the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
Here are some pieces of advice to help you save the Earth.
Wear used clothes
It means that you save the energy when you wear your brother’s, sister’s or dad’s old T-shirts.
Change your light bulbs
Use energy-saving light bulbs. And don’t forget to turn off the lights when you leave a room and turn off your television and computer when they are not in use!
Take a bus
Taking a bus saves a lot of oil every year. Use baskets instead of plastic bags. The next time your parents go to the market, ask them to use their own baskets.
Open the windows
Don’t use the air conditioner. Let some fresh air in. When you have to use the conditioner, set the temperature higher in summer and lower in winter to save energy.
| The global temperatures The temperature in North China climbed 1.4℃ in only half a | ||
| The main reason | Too much carbon dioxide in the air. | |
| Ways to | Chinese | It thinks it It has decided to |
| Chinese families | Wear used clothes. Use energy-saving light bulbs and Take a bus. Use baskets instead of plastic bags when shopping. Try to use the air conditioner | |
UK psychologist(心理学家) Francesca recently shared videos on TikTok about what people’s text messages say about their personality. Many people agreed with her. Let’s check out what she said.
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You are probably sensitive(敏感的) to things around you. You reply to everything the other person says because you want to show that you care about the chat. Also, finishing a conversation last puts you in a position of power because you are no longer waiting for a reply.
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It is possible that you were not pay full attention when texting the messages. It may also be a common texting style among the teenagers. But sometimes, sending several short messages can be seen as rude by the receiver.
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You may be an outgoing person, and your messages are usually friendly. You might want to leave a good impression on the receiver, showing you are easy to get along with.
Social media bring people closer than ever. During online chats, we usually learn from the other user’s personalities from their texts. However, we should be careful. If a person texts with sweet and polite words, people may think he or she is popular. However, the person may be pretending(假装). As a result, what we know about someone from text messages may not always be true.
A. If you prefer short messages...
B. If you use a lot of emojis (表情符号) ...
C. If you finish the conversation last…
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4. What’s the best title of the text?
| A．Social Media Matters | B．Texts Show Personality |
| C．Texting Style Changes | D．Personality is Important |
【推荐2】It’s important to develop the healthy habits in your daily life. The following will help you become healthier and keep perfect shape.
Eat properly. A healthy diet is very important for everybody. Breakfast is the most important meal in a day. Doctors suggest that students’ breakfast should include fruit, eggs, milk, rice or noodles, because these can offer them necessary energy, help them listen carefully in class and keep them healthy. Eat enough for lunch and little for supper. But remember that too much sugar is bad for your teeth and blood. You shouldn’t have too many sweet snacks and desserts in your diet, even though such food tastes delicious.
Keep off germs(病菌). Daily tooth cleaning reduces the amount of germs which will spread diseases. Germs in the mouth are likely to enter the blood and cause illness, even heart disease. Even if you’re not sick, always remember to cough or into your arms instead of your hands because hands can spread germs to others when you touch something else. Besides, washing hands is necessary after going to the toilet or before having a meal. And you’d better rub both hands while washing them.
Exercise regularly. Regular exercise can improve your moods and balance. What’s more, it’s good for bones. There are many forms of exercise: walking or running for about 30 minutes a day playing ball games twice or three times a week, swimming or dancing often. You can choose your favorite to practise regularly. You will not only feel energetic but also think better after doing exercise.
Stay connected. Having regular communication with friends is the key to reducing stress. And sharing happiness and sadness, exchanging information with others can also help improve memory. Having a friend or a circle of friends can help you feel good.
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| Eating properly | You should have proper breakfast because it can You should have enough for lunch and little for Sweet snacks and desserts are tasty, |
| Keeping off germs | It’s necessary for you to your arms’ and wash your hands often to stop germs from |
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| Staying connected | It can help you feel |
【推荐3】We go to school every day and enjoy our school life. School life is usually full of fun, and the school seems to be the safest place in the world.
But do you know that our school life could be dangerous if we are not careful enough? How do we make the school safer and keep us away from danger?
Here are some tips for us to be safe in an easy way. For example, we must remember some important rules in the playground. Before we do sports, we need to do some warm-up activities and after that we should drink some water. And in the classroom, we need to learn how behave well. Do not run in the hallways. We mustn’t fight with or run after each other. And teachers need to keep an eye on the students after class and stop them from running. We students should remember not to be naughty and get ourselves into trouble. What’s more, we can have some practice to learn to protect ourselves from a fire. In this way, we can know where to go if there is a fire in our school. It’s too dangerous to put out fire on our own. Never do that. Well, please think more of our safety at school.
阅读以上信息,用恰当的词完成下面的短文,每空一词。
In order to enjoy our school life, we should know some tips to keep us
