1 . Wondering what you can do to celebrate Earth Day on April 22? You’ve come to the right place. We’ve gathered a comprehensive list of Earth Day activities, both fun and environmentally-conscious, to help raise awareness and make a difference. If you’re ready to learn more about joining the global celebration, initiating real change, and doing your part to save our planet, read on!
·Walk or ride your bike.
·Use a refillable water bottle.
Consider going with a stainless-steel refillable bottle for a super long-lasting option.
·Plant a tree.
Pick a tree species that’s native to where you live. If you’re unsure, ask an employee at your local nursery or garden department. Choose the best planting spot to meet the tree’s needs, dig a properly sized hole, and water the tree well to give it a good start.
·Visit a local farmer’s market.
Eating locally grown food is much better for the environment. For example, locally-grown food doesn’t have to be transported long distances to end up on grocery store shelves.
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See if your community is holding an environmental fair. If your community doesn’t have one planned, consider starting one yourself! It’s the perfect day to get together for a fun and educational celebration of the Earth. Any money raised can go towards a local environmental restoration project or group.
A.Attend a local Earth Day event. |
B.Educate your community on environmental awareness. |
C.Going car-free for the day will reduce harmful carbon emissions. |
D.That means your money won’t be wasted on unnecessary spending. |
E.If physically doing this is unrealistic for you, there are other choices! |
F.Normally, plastic water bottles end up in garbage cans after a single use. |
G.You’ll also be giving back to your community by supporting local farmers. |
2 . Several art projects are on show to warn people of the climate change happening around us.
Video on the walls
Photographer Camille Seaman has traveled to both the North Pole and the South Pole, where she has captured the disappearing ice in photographs and video. Camille Seaman made a video with some of her most powerful photos of melting ice for people in four coastal cities to display on their buildings. The video ends with a prediction that sea level will rise by 2050 without relative action.
Mural (壁画)changing color
Temperatures in Austin, Texas, are on the rise, and climate change will put the city at higher risk of extended drought, wildfires, intense rain and flooding. Artist Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz designed a unique mural that changes color as it gets hotter. This art work calls for people to change the world and change climate change, underlining the importance of individual actions to the collective future.
Public billboard (广告牌)
Artist Christine Sun Kim released a public billboard on the 710 Freeway called The Sound of Temperature Rising. It points to the reality of climate disaster that has become all too clear on the West Coast and the need for significant change now. The illustration features a graph (图表) of music notes that get progressively longer and redder.
Anti-Extinction Library
Globally, species are disappearing at an unheard-of rate. In response, architect Mitchell Joachim created The Anti-Extinction Library in New York. The sculptural piece is not only beautiful but also functional. Their unique egg-shaped library has a special freezer storing test tubes with the frozen cells and DNA of rare animals and plants. It’s important for people to realize we must quickly work to protect the rights of different species in our area.
1. What is the key feature of the mural?A.It lights up at night. |
B.It moves with the wind. |
C.It plays music when it rains. |
D.It changes color with temperature. |
A.Camille Seaman’s. | B.Lope Gutiérrez-Ruiz’s. |
C.Christine Sun Kim's. | D.Mitchel l Joachim’s. |
A.To praise artists’ participation. |
B.To call for people to take action. |
C.To show the severe result of climate change. |
D.To facilitate the combination of art and climate. |
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My name is Nassra, a second-year student at Tanzania Institute of Accountancy as well as an artist of 22 years old. My journey through art has led me to become
What we usually consider waste may be useful when we think about it in a different light. Discarded (丢弃的) or waste items provide plentiful but largely
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People
Spotted lanternflies (斑点灯笼蝇) are an invasive species. Since 2014, they have been seen all across the eastern United States. The insects are harmful to many plants, and can disturb entire ecosystems. State officials have urged people to kill spotted lanternflies wherever they see them.
When Joy saw the pests in her school courtyard, she thought she had to do something. “I’ve always wanted to take environmental action,” she says, “and show people that no one is ever too small to make a difference.”
So she started a club called Squash (压扁). Its mission is to kill spotted lanternflies around the school. More than 20 students have joined. At first, they trapped the pests in empty water bottles and then squashed them. In a single day, the club managed to kill more than a hundred spotted lanternflies.
Joy wanted to do more. With research, she discovered a plant called milkweed. It’s nutritious for pollinators (传粉昆虫) such as monarch butterflies but poisonous to spotted lanternflies. Joy thought that using milkweed along with the traps made specifically for spotted lanternflies would be a better way to kill them. The issue was that they didn’t have enough money to buy milkweed and the traps.
The kids were hoping to raise money for their school to address the big problem. Their goal was to raise $200, the cost of the equipment needed to kill spotted lanternflies around their school. They got part of the way there, with about $75. They decided to attract more fundraisers. “We discovered that if you find your voice,” Joy says, “you can do much more.”
In May, Joy and other students from Squash gathered in Columbus Park, in New York City. They set up a table with lemonade, cookies, and origami figures for sale. The money will be used to buy milkweed and the traps.
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6 . Taking a holiday doesn’t mean letting go of all the eco-friendly choices. There are many ways you can have a much-deserved break without harming the environment.
Forget planes. While most forms of transport produce carbon dioxide, planes have a massive carbon footprint because of the huge number of miles they travel.
Alternatively, you can drive your car to the Grand Canyon to see its splendor.
Pack with care.
Buy gifts responsibly. Bringing back gifts for friends and loved ones is part of the fun of a holiday.
A.Consider green accommodation. |
B.But make sure you choose items carefully. |
C.Think about living in an eco-friendly hotel. |
D.It’s also acceptable to live in a hotel using new energy. |
E.So why not give up flying in favor of a holiday closer to home? |
F.Take environmentally-friendly beauty and bath products with you. |
G.So why do planes consume so much fuel compared with other transport? |
A.Plastic. | B.Paper. | C.Glass. |
8 . Today, interest in sustainable weddings is on the rise. And some of our decisions do not seem as unusual as they once might have. Here are some tips to help you plan a wedding that centers on using your garden and the things you grow in it.
A Sustainable location
Having a wedding outdoors means you don’t have to cope with energy costs or other concerns about a venue(场地).
Flowers Arrangements
For many people, creating a romantic environment means having flowers. Even if you don’t have a wedding ceremony outdoors surrounded by living plants, you may wish to bring nature into your chosen wedding venue.
Food and Drink
Gifts
The added extras can be prepared by using things from your garden before the big day, ranging from sweets, cookies to soaps, baskets, or other thoughtful homemade presents.
Invitations
You might consider making personal and handmade invitations with natural inks, paints and even paper from plant fibers.
A.Keen gardeners can go even further. |
B.If you have a garden, you are already at an advantage. |
C.The natural and beautiful setting of a hall can be a romantic spot. |
D.You can also design your invitations that can be preserved for long. |
E.Alternatively, you might send invitations that double as useful items. |
F.This will make guests feel very welcome and a wedding a special occasion. |
G.You’ll have more control over the event costs, in environmental and financial terms. |
9 . Along the streets of Malabon in the Philippines, Marilene Capentes pushes a cart every morning except Sundays. The city of Malabon is just north of the capital, Manila.
Capentes is a waste picker. She collects bags of separated garbage, placing food waste in one container. This material will be turned into compost (堆肥) at the local recycling center. The rest of the waste goes into separate containers. The recyclable materials are later sold.
Capentes said the heavy rubbish used to be all mixed together. Then a few years ago, a local environmental nonprofit (非盈利机构) started asking people to separate their rubbish.
The Mother Earth Foundation in the Philippines is a member of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, called GAIA. The organization wants to avert food waste from going to landfills. Food waste gives off biogas (沼气) as it breaks down. Biogas is a powerful greenhouse gas.
At a material recycling center in Malabon, organic (有机的) waste collected from households is turned into compost. This material then goes into a community garden to grow vegetables. Some of the food waste is broken down into biogas. This biogas is then used to cook vegetables for waste workers to eat.
There are challenges in establishing these systems in new places. It costs money to set up a facility for composting. People, including local officials, have to be educated on the importance of separating waste. Containers have to be provided to families that cannot buy more than one.
And sometimes separating organic waste is not thought to be important. Also, unlike recyclables and metals, there is not a large market for organic materials. Therefore, waste workers must be paid for the system to work. But these problems can be solved. More people are making the connection between reducing biogas and fighting climate change.
1. Why is food waste separated from other waste?A.To sell it for money. | B.To cook vegetables. |
C.To feed it to animals. | D.To turn it into plant food. |
A.Remove. | B.Prevent. | C.Select. | D.Protect. |
A.Difficulties to build the new systems. | B.Importance of building the new systems. |
C.Conditions required for the new systems. | D.Arguments over building the new systems. |
A.Critical. | B.Grateful. | C.Optimistic. | D.Doubtful. |
10 . For emperor penguins, sea ice is essential to survival. The iconic birds, found only in Antaretica, breed, lay their eggs and raise their chicks on fast sea ice. They arrive at their breeding sites in late March. In May and June, they lay their eggs, which hatch after 65 days during the Antarctic winter. The chicks then remain on the ice until their luff (绒毛) down is replaced by waterproof feathers, finally fledging (长出羽毛) in the summer months of December and January.
Last year, sea ice levels in Antaretiaa were at an all-time low—breaking the record first set in 2021. The Bellingshausen Sea region, to the west of the Antaretic Peninsula, saw the most extreme reduction of sea ice, with some areas experiencing a 100% loss. Of the five known emperor penguins’ habitats in the Bellingshausen Sea region, all but one experienced what was most likely a total breeding failure due to the loss of sea ice, according to a paper published today in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Satellite imagery clearly showed the sea ice had broken up before the chicks would have developed enough to survive on their own.
“We have never seen emperor penguins fail to breed at this scale in a single season,” the study’s lead author, Peter Fretwell of the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement. “The loss of sea ice in this region during the Antaretic summer made it very unlikely that displaced chicks would survive.”
The study team also believe their findings support a projection that if present warming rates continue, more than 80%of emperor penguins’ habitats will disappear, meaning they have too few individuals to support a population, by 2100.
1. Which of the following is the passage probably taken from?A.A science magazine. | B.A science fiction |
C.An advertisement. | D.A novel. |
A.In May. | B.In November. | C.In August. | D.In January. |
A.All emperor penguins suffered breeding failure. |
B.Chicks can grow up before the sea ice breaks up. |
C.Most areas experienced a 100%sea ice loss in Antarctica. |
D.Sea ice levels in Antarctica reached the lowest in 2022. |
A.Chicks are bred difficultly in Antarctica. |
B.Emperor penguins fail to breed their chicks. |
C.Sea ice loss affects emperor penguins’ survival. |
D.Climate change affects sea ice loss in Antarctica. |