With the development of science and technology, our life is becoming much better and more convenient. However, more garbage and pollution
Garbage classification, which is a good way to protect our environment, can’t be overemphasized. It can help separate recyclable waste, which can be
As garbage classification is significant, we should take
1. Why did the man take all the glass back home?
| A．There was no space in the bottle bank. |
| B．The glass was broken. |
| C．The bottle bank was closed. |
| A．Leave the glass on the ground. |
| B．Make a complaint to a newspaper. |
| C．Empty the bottle bank more often. |
3 . 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；
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.倡议的原因和目的；
2.倡议的具体内容；
3.发出倡议。
注意：1.写作词数应为80左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
参考词汇：垃圾分类 garbage sorting
Dear students,
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Yours,
Li Hua
| A．The brown bin. | B．The red bin. | C．The blue bin. |
(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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8 . 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. |
9 . 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A．Honest and determined. | B．Humorous and confident. |
| C．Sensitive and talented. | D．Responsible and optimistic. |
10 . 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. |
