1. Where does the conversation take place?
| A．At a park. | B．At a rubbish station. | C．At a government office. |
| A．One. | B．Two. | C．Three. |
1. What day is the rubbish collected?
| A．Tuesday. | B．Wednesday. | C．Thursday. |
| A．Red. | B．Blue. | C．Green. |
| A．Paper. | B．Plastic. | C．General waste. |
| A．They repair them. | B．They throw them away. | C．They sell them. |
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I'm sure you all know how important recycling is. Recycling is when you take old things and turn them into new things. It sounds like magic. But it's actually very scientific.
| Material | The first thing you have to do is to collect items that can be recycled. Only certain materials can be recycled. These include things made out of paper, metal, glass and plastic. |
| Daily things | Can you think of everyday items made of these material? Soda cans are good example. They are made out of metal. Magazines and newspaper are made out of paper. So are cereal boxes. Some bottles of juice are made out of glass. Bags and yogurt containers are made out of plastic. There are many things that can be recycled. |
| Loop | These things are usually stamped with the recycling loop. It has 3 arrows that go in a triangular(三角形) circle. This shows that cycled(循环) continues. Items are thrown away but continue their lives as something else. |
| Process | Let's go back to the process of recycling. ①The items are put in a recycling bin.②A truck carries the items to a recycling plant(工厂).③The materials are separated and squashed(被压扁成) into square cubes.④Companies buy and turn them into new products. |
1. What is recycling according to the passage?
| A．It's a magic performance. | B．It's a way of burning old things. |
| C．It's a way to make old things useful. | D．It's a scientific research. |
| A．Rubber. | B．Metal |
| C．Glass. | D．Plastic. |
| A．have some valuable stamps | B．are in a triangle circle |
| C．are recycled and reused | D．are thrown away |
4 . Sort trash, save Earth
You might not think much about where your garbage goes. But now you might want to know. On July 1, Shanghai introduced a new garbage-sorting policy (垃圾分类政策). People there need to put different kinds of garbage into different bins. Other cities in China will do the same soon.
Why is garbage sorting a big problem? It’s because there is too much garbage these days. It is bad for our soil, air and water. Actually we can make use of some garbage again.
And first, we need to sort our garbage. For example, if you put an old battery into the “harmful waste” bin, people can use it to make new batteries. But if you don’t, the battery will end up somewhere else. Then, it will pollute the environment.
Can’t factories sort garbage for us? Yes, they can. But it takes many workers to do this and costs lots of money. If we all sort our own garbage, things will become much easier.
Garbage sorting and recycling around the world
• Germany: There are big machines in supermarkets. You can put bottles in the machines and get money back. You can get one to two yuan per bottle. People like this because they can get money and protect the environment at the same time.
• Japan: A trash truck comes to people’s doors to pick up their garbage. It plays music when it’s coming. There are eight or more kinds of garbage. If you sort any of them wrong, you will get a notice on your door.
• Indonesia: People can take buses for free if they give plastic bottles to bus stations. An hour-long bus ride costs three large bottles, five medium bottles or 10 plastic cups. But the bottles must be clean.
• Shanghai: Four kinds of garbage in Shanghai
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Recyclable garbage includes paper, books, boxes, newspapers, and glass bottles. | Harmful garbage includes lamps, batteries, nail polish (指甲油 ), and other things with harmful chemicals. | Wet garbage usually comes from the kitchen, such as food, vegetables, flowers, leaves and eggshells. | Dry garbage is anything you cannot put into the other three bins. It includes pens, toilet paper, tape, hair, and towels. |
1. What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
| A．Many other cities in China have garbage-sorting policies. |
| B．Many people don’t like Shanghai’s garbage-sorting policy. |
| C．Shanghai is the first city in China to make a garbage-sorting policy. |
| D．China is the first country in the world to make a garbage-sorting policy. |
| A．how to sort our garbage |
| B．the importance of sorting our garbage |
| C．what harmful waste is |
| D．the difficulty of sorting our garbage |
| A．Because we don’t have this kind of factory. |
| B．Because factories ask for too much money. |
| C．Because it takes too many workers to do it. |
| D．Because not all garbage can go to factories. |
| A．Germany. | B．Indonesia. | C．Japan. | D．China. |
