1 . If you live in Shanghai, you might have to take a "lesson" in sorting garbage, as the city recently introduced new garbage-sorting regulations. It's now required that people should sort garbage into four categories, namely recyclable, harmful, dry and wet waste. However, if people fail to sort their garbage properly, they can be fined up to 200 yuan. More cities are introducing similar regulations, following the practice in Shanghai. By the end of 2020, garbage-sorting systems will have been built in 46 major Chinese cities, including Beijing and Shenzhen, reported People's Daily.
According to a study by the Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, under the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, over 90 percent of the public believe that garbage sorting is important for the protection of the environment. However, garbage sorting is still a big problem in China. Only 30 percent of participants said they think they are adequately sorting their trash, the study noted.
According to Xinhua News Agency, it's partly because many people lack the willingness to sort their own waste, In the past. Some previous garbage regulations didn't give clear fines for people who failed to sort garbage. "It's a must to have a legal guarantee to promote garbage sorting." Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University, told China Daily. He also added "the importance of the new regulations in Shanghai is to change the past voluntary action into compulsory action for everyone.
Aside from China, many other foreign countries have also introduced garbage-sorting regulations. In Japan, waste sorting has become a basic survival skill, reported Xinhua. There is a fixed time for disposal of each kind of garbage and littering can result in high fines and even jail time. In Germany too, people are asked to sort waste into specific categories, reported HuffPost. For example, in Berlin, people have yellow bins for plastic and metals and blue bins for paper and cardboard.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?| A．All the cities use the same regulations as Shanghai. |
| B．Shanghai works as a pioneer in garbage sorting. |
| C．Poisonous waste belongs to four categories in sorting. |
| D．People will be fined not less than 200 yuan. |
| A．Not all the public attach importance to garbage sorting. |
| B．Garbage-sorting system have been built in 46 major cities. |
| C．People may be put in prison because of littering in Germany. |
| D．People aren't fined clearly if they fail to sort garbage now. |
| A．The sorting action should be changed from compulsory to voluntary. |
| B．He thinks highly of the legal regulations in garbage sorting. |
| C．There is a growing concern over garbage sorting worldwide. |
| D．Legal guarantee is a must to promote garbage sorting. |
| A．Regulations Are of Great Importance |
| B．Shanghai Puts Garbage-sorting Into Practice |
| C．Cities Get Serious About Waste |
| D．Garbage Is Hard to Recycle Appropriately |
2 . When your pen is broken, the batteries (电池) in your toys run out, or you have some leftover food, what will you do with these things? You will probably throw them all into one bin. But actually, all of these pieces of rubbish need to be sorted (分类) separately.
Rubbish sorting is a big problem worldwide. In recent years, some Chinese cities have been working hard on it. Shanghai has worked with Alipay to create a “green account (账户)” service. Account owners get points by correctly sorting their rubbish. Through the Alipay app, they can exchange the points for milk, phone cards or other products. The city is asking all people living there to sort their rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry.
Wet waste is something you don't want but that pigs can eat. Plastics, glass, paper and other things that can be reused are recyclable waste. Harmful waste includes things like medicine, batteries and bulbs. Finally, any waste that’s not wet, recyclable or harmful will go in the “dry waste” bin.
Many other Chinese cities are also sorting their rubbish in this way. For example, Shenzhen has been doing this since 2012. Students there also receive waste-sorting guidebooks that they must study.
In fact, there are still many workers specially working for sorting rubbish by hand in China. There is still a long way to go. But it’s never too late for every Chinese to learn how to sort rubbish properly and protect the environment.
If you don't sort your rubbish, all of it will go to a landfill (垃圾填埋场) and be buried together.
These landfills can take up much ground that could be used for planting. The electronic waste you throw away, such as batteries or used mobile phones, can cause pollution. Other pieces of rubbish, like the metal part of a pen, can be used to make other things if they are properly recycled.
1. Shanghai creates the “green account” service in order to ________.| A．work with the Alipay app. | B．punish those who don't sort rubbish. |
| C．exchange useful products. | D．encourage people to sort their rubbish. |
| A．wet. | B．recyclable. |
| C．harmful. | D．dry. |
| A．why we should sort rubbish properly. |
| B．where our rubbish can be dealt with. |
| C．how some waste can be recycled. |
| D．what waste can cause pollution. |
| A．There is still a long way to go in rubbish sorting. |
| B．There are many workers sorting rubbish by hand. |
| C．Students have to take waste-sorting classes in school. |
| D．Shenzhen has been doing rubbish sorting for nine years. |
3 . Open an app at your smart phone and scan the code bar on the garbage can. When you throw garbage into the garbage can, it will show the weight of the garbage and the points you can get from doing so.
In some cities, a variety of multifunctional smart garbage cans are being put into use. In Beijing, for example, a smart garbage can is equipped with an LED screen, which not only shows national policies on garbage classification but also shows the correct steps for garbage sorting. It can also calculate the weight of the garbage and the accumulated points one can get. They can be traded for some articles of daily use.
Garbage disposal is a small issue that involves everybody each day. However, it is also a big issue.
| A．Garbage sorting has been a new fashion. |
| B．Another kind of garbage can is even smarter. |
| C．It is no wonder that residents cheered for their presence. |
| D．Such a way of handling garbage has appeared in some cities. |
| E．It will affect China’s transformation towards green development. |
| F．Over 200 million tons of garbage is produced each year in some cities. |
| G．The good habit of garbage classification can improve the living environment. |
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing this letter to draw you attention to the community lecture concerning garbage classification. As we all know, garbage classification is of great significant for environmental protection. We should try our best make our community an better place.
Garbage classification not only benefits the environment, but reduce the workload of workers. More important, it can help us develop a sense of responsibility and form good habits for ourselves. What’s more, the garbage where is classified can be recycled and turned into value resources.
The lecture will be held in the hall at 9 am next Sunday. I hope you can come and join in us. Making a contribution to garbage classification, please.
Yours,
Hongqi Community
