1 . Taiwan was once known as “Garbage Island”. Now it is a word leader which recycles more than half of its waste in business that brings in over $2 billion a year.
In 1993, Taiwan was filled with garbage. There was almost no recycling. Two thirds of its landfills were full. Around 20% of the island’s garbage was dumped (丢弃). The rest was either buried in a landfill, or burned, leaving the island in an unpleasant and unhealthy situation.
In 1998, the government took action. Their plan affected companies that made products or brought them into Taiwan. These companies were required to take care of their own waste, or to pay the government to do it. The government used the money it collected to improve recycling in the area. Taiwan gave away as much as $6 billion a year to help recycling companies.
Ordinary people had apart, too. The government created a plan called Pay As You Throw. People were required to separate their waste into two groups-garbage, and things that are recyclable or reusable. Recycling is free, but people have to buy special blue bags to throw things away. People quickly began to recycle more.
The government also made it easy for people to deal with their waste. Yellow garbage trucks come around often. To let people know they’re coming, they play music. People can also track (追踪) the garbage trucks by using a smartphone app.
1. Recycling garbage can bring Taiwan ________ a year.| A．$1 billion | B．$2 billion | C．$4 billion | D．$6 billion |
| A．56% | B．66% | C．70% | D．80% |
| A．ask the company to leave Taiwan | B．ask the company to build landfills |
| C．ask the company to pay for the garbage | D．ask the company to sell it out |
| A．using blue bags | B．playing music | C．using a phone app | D．separating the waste |
| A．people are smart in Taiwan | B．garbage makes Taiwan rich |
| C．Taiwan needs more landfills | D．recycling works well in Taiwan |
1. 分析现状；
2. 垃圾分类的好处；
3. 呼吁大家参与垃圾分类。
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参考词汇：垃圾分类 garbage classification 垃圾填埋厂landfill
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If you live in Shanghai, you might have to take a lesson in sorting garbage.
More cities are introducing similar regulations,
Apart from China, many other foreign countries also
4 . Recycling is good for our planet, but it can be confusing. Can I recycle plastic bags? What about pizza cartons? Toothpaste tubes? Which bin should I use? There are so many questions, and more than half of Americans are unsure about how to recycle.
Know what to put in the recycling bin. Keep it simple and focus on the most commonly recycled items, such as paper, glass, aluminum and plastic.
Wash or clean items. Do a quick clean to make sure there is no food left in containers before you put them in the bin.
Don’t bag it. Unless you live in a place that requires it, like New York City, keep the recyclables lost in the bin. “A lot of the time, it’s not safe for our employees to tear those bags open, or it takes too much time,” said Keller. “
| A．Know what is not recyclable. |
| B．The answers are not hard to find. |
| C．A lot of bagged stuff goes right to the landfill. |
| D．Plastic bags can be used again or returned to grocery stores. |
| E．If you really don’t know if an item is recyclable, then just throw it in the garbage. |
| F．This is really important if you only use one bin because food items could ruin paper. |
| G．Hard plastics like water and soft drink bottles or anything like these can be recycled. |
1. 环境现状；
2. 保护环境的具体措施（志愿者活动：植树，捡垃圾；低碳生活：关灯关水龙头，垃圾分类……）；
3. 呼吁投入环境保护；
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参考词汇：提议proposal 低碳的low-carbon 垃圾分类garbage sorting
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6 . Garbage sorting (分类) has become a hot topic around China, especially after Shanghai began carrying out a regulation (规章) on July 1.
Beijing has been expected to do the same. At present the regulation gives garbage sorting responsibilities to government departments, property management groups and other organizations. It also gives rules for companies, explaining how they’re responsible for waste collection, transportation and treatment. Citizens are free of responsibilities for the moment.
The long-awaited revision will soon change the situation. “Taking out the trash without sorting it properly will be illegal,” said Sun Xinjun, director of the Beijing Commission of Urban Management. In Shanghai, violators (违背者) are now fined up to 200 yuan for trash-sorting violations. “The maximum fine in Beijing will not be less than that,” he said.
The Beijing city government first promoted garbage sorting in 2009. Authorities have since called on citizens to sort their household waste into four types—recyclable waste, kitchen trash, dangerous waste and others , and leave it in a colored dustbin or trash can. Blue-colored dustbins are for recyclable items, green for kitchen trash, red for dangerous materials and grey for other waste.
To promote the awareness of garbage sorting and expand the base of participants, authorities have employed workers to help citizens. With intelligent devices, those who throw in recyclable waste at given places will be rewarded with bonus points, which can be used to buy daily goods. At some communities, there are no color-coded dustbins. Instead, a scheduled garbage collection service is offered to help improve the environment. In other communities, workers offer a door-to-door service to collect recyclable or kitchen waste.
Beijing Environmental Sanitation Engineering Group has been promoting new garbage sorting facilities such as recycling cabinets and smart kitchen waste trash cans since 2016, Xinhua News Agency reported.
1. Which of the following shouldn’t be thrown into a blue dustbin?| A．Coke cans. | B．Thrown-away batteries. |
| C．Used books. | D．Broken iron pots. |
| A．citizens are not responsible for garbage sorting in Beijing now |
| B．recyclable waste like newspapers should be thrown in green dustbins. |
| C．people sorting recyclable waste will be rewarded in Beijing |
| D．Shanghai carried out garbage sorting later than Beijing |
| A．An Example in Garbage Sorting in Shanghai |
| B．Action to Be Taken to Sort Garbage in Shanghai |
| C．New Garbage Sorting Regulation in Beijing |
| D．Present Garbage Collection in Beijing |
| A．A fashion magazine. | B．A science book. |
| C．A newspaper. | D．A government report. |
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2. 讲座内容；
3. 欢迎同学们踊跃参加。
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8 . When it comes to becoming eco-conscious (有生态意识的), many people choose to start with something simple: recycling (回收利用). But it’s not as simple as everyone seems to believe.
Indeed, the desire for some people to recycle can lead to ill-informed (不了解情况的) decisions about what can and cannot be recycled, and non-recyclable objects are accidentally put into the recycling bin. The practice is what is known as wishcycling.
Wishcycling boils down to (归结起来是) the idea that just about anything can be recycled, and that if you put it into a recycling bin, those who are responsible (负责的) for it will find a way to recycle it. This is obviously not true, because, despite everything that you’ve been told by the media, not everything is recyclable.
Small non-recyclable objects that are attached to recyclables are generally acceptable. For example, glue and tape attached to paper will be removed in the recycling process without any trouble. But improperly recycling broken eyeglasses, plastic shopping bags, food waste and greasy (沾油渍的) pizza boxes could cause problems to the recycling process.
The objects in the recycling bin are typically sorted by machines at recycling centers, not people. These complex machines are designed to separate plastics, paper, and other recyclables. If something is thrown into the bin that shouldn’t be there, it could end up damaging the machine, which means the recycling center could lose time and money every time people decide to wishcycle. Sometimes, a non-recyclable object is able to sneak (溜) past these sorting machines. If this happens, the non-recyclable object ends up in a load of recyclables that will be sold for the recycling center to make a profit. However, having just one non-recyclable thing mixed in can pollute the entire load of recyclables, which has to be thrown away.
So what you as a consumer need to do is make your own recycling practice most functional (实用的). The best way is to educate yourself. There are certain general rules when it comes to recycling that everyone should know.
1. What do we know about wishcycling?| A．It is misled by the media. | B．It leads to a better ecology. |
| C．It is related to bad information. | D．It comes from people’s hope. |
| A．Paper with glue on it. | B．Only pizza boxes. |
| C．Plastic shopping bags. | D．Left-over food. |
| A．The problems from wishcycling. | B．The need to update the machines. |
| C．The reasons for making less profit. | D．The objects unsuitable for recycling. |
| A．Reducing waste. | B．Making rules. |
| C．Recycling properly. | D．Consuming wisely. |
9 . When Shanghai introduced a new garbage-sorting policy (垃圾类政策) in July last year, the city’s residents (居民) took some time to get used to it. They joked that every time they took out their garbage, the staff (工作人员) standing by the bins would ask, “What kind of garbage are you?”
Starting on May 1, Beijing joined many Chinese cities by introducing a new garbage-sorting policy, People’s Daily reported. Residents should sort their garbage into four groups: kitchen, recyclable, hazardous (有害的) and other waste.
These groups are represented (代表) by four different colors of trash bins—green, blue, red and gray. Those who fail to sort their trash correctly may be fined up to 200 yuan, Xinhua reported.
Some cities like Shanghai and Qingdao sort their trash differently. These cities use four different groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Although their names are different, the groups are actually the same. In fact, wet garbage in Shanghai is kitchen garbage in Beijing. And dry garbage is the same as other waste, China Youth Daily reported.
To help residents sort their trash correctly, the Beijing government is offering online guidelines (指导). If people don’t know how to throw away garbage, they can search for it on the WeChat account Guanchenglishi (管城理市) to find out. By searching a keyword or taking a photo, people can immediately find out which group their waste belongs to.
1. If people don’t follow the garbage-sorting policy, __________.| A．they will have to stand by the bins | B．they won’t be allowed to throw trash away |
| C．they won’t be noticed | D．they may face fines |
| A．Beijing and Shanghai. | B．Beijing and Qingdao. |
| C．Shanghai and Qingdao. | D．Qingdao and Wuhan. |
| A．wet garbage | B．dry garbage |
| C．recyclable garbage | D．harmful garbage |
| A．Beijing uses four different groups: kitchen, recyclable, hazardous and dry. |
| B．Garbage-sorting is being carried out all over China. |
| C．Guanchenglishi can help residents in Beijing with the garbage-sorting. |
| D．Residents in Beijing are troubled by garbage-sorting. |
1.垃圾分类的好处；
2.你打算如何做；
3.你的倡议。
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