2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers discussing?

A．A neighborhood recycling project.

B．An environment-friendly material.

C．A garbage separating job in a school.

2. What does the man decide to do?

A．Ask the school children for help.

B．Hire someone to do the separating job.

C．Have separate containers clearly marked.

4 . Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Does Recycling Work For Plastic?

Dealing with plastic waste is always a tough problem. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), half of the world’s plastic waste ends up in a landfill, 19% burned, and another 22% escapes waste management systems and goes into uncontrolled dumpsites.

So environmentalists suggest plastic waste should be recycled properly, which proves an effective way to handle other waste like paper, cardboard, metal and glass. However, a new study by Greenpeace, and reporting in the Boston Globe, suggests that recycling plastic is a “myth” and raises a major question about the future: does recycling work? Unfortunately, the short answer is “not really.”

There’s been a lot of debate over what really happens to recycled plastic. But scientists say that recycling plastic waste has mostly failed because it’s very difficult to collect and nearly impossible to sort. Because plastic is often made from harmful materials, it can be harmful to the environment to reprocess.

Much of the solution falls on big companies to change the way they do business. The way forward seems to be mostly to cut down on companies’ reliance on plastic packaging, and to move toward reusable packaging and packaging-free alternatives. Above all, companies need to phase out all single-use plastics. For the consumer, living more plastic-free is the only real solution available. Avoiding drinks in plastic containers, using a travel mug or reusable water bottle, bringing your own reusable bag, buying in bulk and cutting back on pre-packaged foods are all a good start.

But in the end, corporate America needs a deeper commitment to the plastic waste problem. “Companies must take action now to get rid of single-use plastics and packaging and not rely on false solutions such as recycling,” says Greenpeace.

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6 . The waste management park at Water Beach in Cambridge-shire handles 400,000 tons of recycling every year.

Fran Hawes is standing on the edge of a mountain of dry recycling. She says, “Some think it’s a discouraging thing, but for me personally, it is a huge responsibility.” Fran, who started to do the job at the age of 26, takes her job very seriously. “I am that annoying person at a party who will get everyone’s recycling and make sure everything goes in the right bin,” she admits. “That’s my job. That’s my mission. That’s what I need to do. It allows me to find my leadership style.”

Bin loader Richard Hughes and his colleagues clock on at the waste service garage in Peter-borough at 6:30 and are out emptying bins within half an hour. Richard works four 12-hour days and admits the pay and the condition are not great—but there are three days off which he can spare to his partner and children. His colleague Crystal Teal has been working as a bin loader for two and a half months. “I didn’t feel my last job gave me self-worth and general happiness, so I decided to change and do something completely different,” she says. “I decided to be a binman. It doesn’t bother me that men are mainly doing it,” Crystal adds. “It can be smelly some days, but go home and have a shower, you’ll be all right.”

“When householders put the wrong material in the recycling bins, it makes me feel angry that they are just putting it out there. We’re doing our job to serve them. We are providing service to take their rubbish away and they can’t do their part to put the right things in,” said Richard.

“Any problem has a solution—therefore I’m not afraid of a pile of waste,” Fran says. “To any normal person, this might be intimidating (令人生畏的). It’s a challenge. But this will be gone by Monday morning.”

1. Why does Fran Hawes make others annoyed at a party?

A．She asks everyone to be responsible for their jobs.	B．She still performs her task of waste sorting.
C．She hosts the party in a leadership way.	D．She might be smelly at parties.

2. Why did Crystal choose to be a bin loader?

A．She needed a well-paid job.	B．She preferred the three-day-off holiday.
C．It’s meaningful for her to do the job.	D．All the colleagues were friendly to her.

3. What made Richard sometimes angry?

A．People didn’t take out their rubbish.	B．People threw away rubbish everywhere.
C．People didn’t sort their rubbish out rightly.	D．People picked out useful things from the bins.

4. Which of the following can best describe Fran?

A．Honest and determined.	B．Humorous and confident.
C．Sensitive and talented.	D．Responsible and optimistic.

9 . 假定你是李华。为配合天津市正在实施的垃圾分类工作，你所在的学校将举办有关“Garbage sorting”的英语演讲比赛。请写一篇演讲稿，内容包括：
(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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10 . 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

2. According to the passage, which of the following cities have the same names for garbage groups?

A．Beijing and Shanghai.	B．Beijing and Qingdao.
C．Shanghai and Qingdao.	D．Qingdao and Wuhan.

3. Kitchen garbage in Beijing is the same as ________ in Shanghai.

A．wet garbage	B．dry garbage
C．recyclable garbage	D．harmful garbage

4. What do we know from this passage?

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.