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Air pollution is caused by the following
We should take some measures to fight
2 . Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary material we are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
1. What does the underlined word “over-consumption” refer to?A.Using too much packaging. |
B.Recycling too much waste. |
C.Making more products than necessary. |
D.Having more material than is needed. |
A.the tendency of cutting household waste |
B.the increase of packaging recycling |
C.the rapid growth of supermarkets |
D.the fact of packaging overuse |
A.Unpackaged products are of bad quality. |
B.Supermarkets care more about packaging. |
C.It is improper to judge quality by packaging. |
D.Other products are better packaged than food. |
A.Fighting wastefulness is difficult. |
B.Needless material is mostly recycled. |
C.People like collecting recyclable waste. |
D.The author is proud of his consumer culture. |
Sam’s grandfather told him that the bird was once a famous
The next morning, Sam asked his uncle out. Sam did
Before Sam found the bird was
A.feed | B.buy | C.wash | D.sell |
A.know | B.find | C.keep | D.buy |
A.singing | B.sleeping | C.eating | D.hunting |
A.some | B.no | C.many | D.few |
A.mouth | B.wings | C.tail | D.eyes |
A.dealt | B.returned | C.met | D.parted |
A.watch | B.search | C.eat | D.help |
A.as | B.for | C.since | D.after |
A.fell | B.rose | C.walked | D.ran |
A.shouted | B.cried | C.laughed | D.nodded |
A.attractive | B.pleasant | C.poor | D.strong |
A.bed | B.supper | C.lunch | D.breakfast |
A.patience | B.surprise | C.joy | D.sadness |
A.harmful | B.strange | C.cheap | D.useless |
A.leaving | B.gone | C.dying | D.cooked |
A.shouted at | B.smiled at | C.looked after | D.took after |
A.impressed | B.worried | C.satisfied | D.bored |
A.waved | B.pointed | C.aimed | D.jumped |
A.what | B.why | C.where | D.how |
A.money | B.coat | C.bird | D.everything |
Every summer, thousands of endangered green sea turtles climb onto beaches around the world. Each mother sea turtle produces 100 or more eggs in a hole, and covers the hole with sand before she swims away.
Two months later, the eggs hatch(孵化), and the baby turtles climb out of the sand and swim into the ocean. They don’t reappear until they have grown as large as dinner plates. Until now, no one knows where the baby turtles go or what they do.
“if we don’t know where these little turtles are, we can’t protect them,” says Kim Reich, who helps solve part of the mystery.
Her teacher, Karen Bjorndal, has studied green sea turtles for more than 30 years. Every year, Bjorndal goes to the Bahamas Islands. Many young sea turtles come here to live and eat at the end of their childhood.
These turtles are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters. In fact, their name may be a result of what they eat. The turtles don’t look green but they do have green fat. Scientists learned that the turtles eat green sea plants, which may turn their fat green.
Between 2002 and 2004, Bjorndal caught 44 green sea turtles in the Bahamas. After testing them, she found something to support the 20-year-old idea: baby green sea turtles eat meat before they turn to a diet of plants. In fact, they eat animals that live in the open ocean.
Scientists still need to find where exactly green sea turtles grow. We now know that baby green sea turtles are out in the open ocean, but the open ocean is a big place.
“It is really a problem,” says Bjorndal. The discovery may help us do a better job of protecting this sea animal.
1. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs?
A.baby turtles go to the ocean when they are two months old. |
B.Mother turtles leave the eggs alone after they produce them. |
C.No one knows when turtles appear on the beach. |
D.Mother turtles are as large as dinner plates. |
A.help her teacher | B.prove an idea |
C.protect turtles | D.become a scientist |
A.the young live in the Bahamas Islands. |
B.The young eat meat before turning to a diet of plants |
C.They live in the open ocean for a lifelong time |
D.They are the only sea turtles that live as plant eaters. |
A.Finding out where young turtles grow. |
B.Protecting this endangered sea animal. |
C.Changing young turtles’ eating habits. |
D.Living in the open ocean. |
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When I was a child, I hoped to live in the city. I think I would be happy there. Now I am living in a city , but I miss my home in countryside. There the air is clean or the mountains are green. Unfortunately, on the development of industrialization, the environment has been polluted. Lots of studies have been shown that global warming has already become a very seriously problem. The airs we breathe in is getting dirtier and dirtier. Much rare animals are dying out . We must found ways to protect your environment. If we fail to do so , we‘ll live to regret it .
It was an
The attitudes of scientists towards this rise are different, and any
You may become physically addicted to nicotine, then you may develop the habit of smoking and finally become
The idea that bottled water is safer for humans may not be true. The Natural Resources Defense Council of America said, “There is no promise that because water comes out of a bottle, it is cleaner or safer than water from the tap.” Another New York City-based action group added that some bottled water is “really just tap water in a bottle—sometimes more clean, sometimes not.”
It is not proven that bottled water is better than tap water. Nick Reeves from the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management said, “The high mineral content (含量) of some bottled water makes them not good for feeding babies and young children.” Also, most bottled water doesn’t have fluoride (氟化物), which can make teeth stronger. Kids are drinking more bottled water and less fluoridated tap water, and some say that’s behind the recent rise in bad teeth.
Storing is another problem. Placed near heat, the plastic bottles can produce bad chemicals (化学物质) into the water.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used worldwide to bottle water each year. The plastic can take between 400 and 1,000 years to break down.
In terms of energy use, plastic bottles are also not cheap. One report said that if water and soft drink bottlers had used 10 percent recycled materials in their plastic bottles, they would have saved about 72 million gallons of gas.
So, if you are worried about the effect of bottled water on the Earth, you can take the following steps.
● Drink from your tap. Unless your government warns against this, it should be fine.
● Get a container (容器). Carry your tap water in a steel or a lined drinking container, and clean it between uses.
● Keep it cool. Don’t drink from a bottle that has been sitting in the sun, don’t store it near chemicals, and don’t reuse plastic bottles.
● Choose glass containers over plastic if possible. When finished, recycle!
1. What is the main idea of the article?
A.Drinking tap water is the only choice for people. |
B.Glass containers are better than plastic bottles. |
C.Plastic bottles are harmful to the environment. |
D.Bottled water may not be as good as we think. |
A.They break down in less than 300 years. | B.They can be used for many other things. |
C.They are a risk to the environment. | D.They are cheap to make. |
A.no problem for the environment | B.more expensive than tap water |
C.always safer than tap water | D.better for babies |
A.There are a lot of problems storing tap water. |
B.Bottled water can be just tap water in a bottle. |
C.It may be better for your teeth. |
D.It may contain fluoride. |