1. Where do Indonesians put their garbage?
| A．In the front of their houses. |
| B．In the public garbage cans. |
| C．In the official garbage bags. |
| A．Yellow. | B．Blue. | C．Gray. |
| A．Their price depends on the type of waste. |
| B．They are provided by the government for free. |
| C．Different districts have different official garbage bags. |
2 . How to Properly Recycle Your Paper and Cardboard
If you receive pizza deliveries or packages regularly, you probably have a pile of empty boxes sitting somewhere in your house.
According to the University of Southern Indiana, one billion trees’ worth of paper is thrown in the trash annually — and that’s just in the US. I spoke with some recycling experts and here’s what I found out about the right way to recycle paper and cardboard.
Before you bring the cardboard to your nearest recycling center or put it in a bin for pickup, break the boxes down so that they’re lying flat.
| A．This helps make more room in the bin. |
| B．It helps protect the other materials in the bin. |
| C．There’s a right way to recycle your paper and cardboard. |
| D．Therefore it’s important that we make sure to recycle as much as we can. |
| E．However, it is not completely impossible to recycle contaminated boxes. |
| F．While you may think you can recycle any cardboard and paper, that’s not the case. |
| G．The same goes for the shiny wrapping paper you thought would be fine to put into the paper recycling. |
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. |
4 . As Shanghai prepared to introduce mandatory(强制的) garbage sorting on July 1, games and toys that examined fun ways to spread information about the garbage sorting were to encourage younger people to take action.
A 15-second video of a game went on Chinese social media. In the video, players wearing VR headsets saw four different types of trash cans in front of them, and had to throw different types of garbage into the right buckets(桶) to get points. Although it was not the only VR game in the place, visitors lined up around the booth to explore it because of the garbage-sorting theme.
“As a citizen in Shanghai, I am in great need of this game. Maybe I won’t need to check how to categorize(将……分类) each piece of garbage on my phone while going through all my garbage every day if I play this game more often,” said Zhou Zhou, a youngster. But some social media users in Shanghai have complained about the difficulty of sorting different types of garbage.
Wu Xia, founder and CEO of VitrellaCore, the company that created the game, said the idea was to provide an interesting way of learning about garbage sorting. “It’s simple and easy to understand. People can practice sorting garbage without actually going through their trash, and it is a more effective method than using paper materials when training volunteers,” Wu said.
1. What is the purpose of the VR game?| A．Just for fun. |
| B．To teach people to sort garbage. |
| C．To do exercise. |
| D．To keep fit. |
| A．It is too hard to sort garbage. |
| B．There are too many people lining up. |
| C．The VR game should be more interesting. |
| D．There are more ways to use paper materials. |
| A．Successful. | B．Interesting. |
| C．Traditional. | D．Disappointing. |
| A．Young people like VR games more. |
| B．Shanghai performs mandatory garbage sorting. |
| C．Games were used to help young people sort garbage. |
| D．Learning by playing VR games is practical for the young. |
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. |
6 . A report from Greenpeace USA shows only a small amount of the plastic we think we’re recycling is actually getting recycled. The rest of it is transported to landfills(废弃物填埋场).
“It was surprising, even to us,” says John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA’s Oceans Campaign Director. “There are billions of us going through trillions and trillions of throwaway plastic items a year. Almost none of that is recycled.”
According to the report, only 8.4% of the total post-consumer plastic waste created in the USA is recycled. That’s out of nearly 35 million tons of materials.
Ian Monahan from I Love a Clean San Diego says they’ve been working for years to educate people around the county about what should and should not be put in the blue recycling bins(回收箱).
The county has a website, waste freesd.org, which includes a full database of recyclable items and also runs a customer service hotline for people to ask questions. Monahan says people in San Diego can feel confident in putting #1 PET (common water and soda bottles) and #2 HDPE (plastic jugs and household bottles) plastics in their bins, as well as most other kinds of rigid(具刚性的) plastic.
But the long-term future of recycling is up in the air. In 2018, China, which had been the largest importer of recyclable materials, stopped buying recyclable plastic from the USA. What’s more, the cost of making new plastic is now cheaper than recycling old items. Therefore, Monahan says people need to focus more on “reduce” and “reuse”, and less on “recycle”.
Monahan suggests people who want to do better should pick one plastic item to eliminate(消除) a month, like straws(吸管). As they get used to that, they can eliminate another, and eventually, he says, they can reduce the need for plastic altogether.
To help, Greenpeace USA is putting pressure on companies to stop using plastic packaging, and also fighting for tougher standards to make sure items marked as recyclable can actually be recycled.
1. What can we learn about San Diego?| A．It has put much effort into recycling. |
| B．Its people want more recycling bins. |
| C．It has no market for recycled products. |
| D．Its people are able to recycle all kinds of plastic. |
| A．Recycled plastic has little value. |
| B．Recycling is very hard to achieve. |
| C．There will be less recyclable plastic. |
| D．The USA hasn’t made strict recycling rules. |
| A．Refuse to use throwaway plastic. |
| B．Throw one plastic item at a time. |
| C．Use less and less plastic gradually. |
| D．Force companies to produce less plastic. |
| A．Recyclable plastic just a small part of the problem |
| B．Recycled plastic cheaper than foreign plastic |
| C．Recycled plastic not always exported |
| D．Recyclable plastic not always 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；
注意：1. 词数120左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节以使行文连贯；
3. 开头与结尾已写，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：提议proposal 低碳的low-carbon 垃圾分类garbage sorting
Dear students,
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The Students’ Union
(1) 垃圾问题的现状；
(2) 垃圾分类的好处（至少2点）；
(3) 呼吁全体同学积极参加垃圾分类。
注意：(1)词数：100 左右；(2) 开头和结尾已为你写好，不记入总词数；
参考词汇：垃圾分类 rubbish classification 可回收物 recyclable waste
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1.倡议的原因和目的；
2.提出建议；
3.发出倡议。
注意：1．词数100左右；2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：垃圾分类 garbage sorting 区分 differentiate
Dear students,
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The Students’ Union
10 . 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. |
