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浙江省湖州市吴兴区十校联考2020届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷(含听力音频)
Every day there is less and less space on Earth for rubbish. Yet every day we make more and more rubbish. What can we do? We can recycle some of our rubbish. Recycling means that the rubbish will be made into something that can be used again.
Recycling helps Earth. And it saves space in rubbish dumps(垃圾场). Half of everything that we put into landfills could be recycled instead. In fact, most things made of paper, metal, glass and plastic can be recycled.
Paper can be broken into small pieces and made into new paper. Steel and aluminum cans(金属罐) can be melted down(熔化) and made into new cans. The same is true of glass bottles. This can be done over and over again. Recycling doesn't take as much energy as making these things the first time. So we can use less of Earth's fuel resources.
Plastic can be melted down, too. Then it can be formed into park benches(长椅), playgrounds and so on. Some people call plastic the "wood" of the future. Things made of plastic will last about 400 years—even if they stay outside in the weather. No wood can do that!
The years from A.D 500 to 1450 are called the Middle ages. Sometimes they are also called the Dark Ages since few people had an education during that time. Still, there were lots of new ideas and inventions. Many of them came from China.
Paper Money In 1023. the first government—printed (政府印制的) paper money was printed in China. Before that, paper money had been printed just by companies. Marco polo was an Italian explorer who went to China. He wrote about paper Money. Paper money did not become popular in Europe Until Sweden began printing it in 1601. |
Movable type printing machine Bi Sheng Made the first movable type printing machine in China in the 1000s. Before this, people had to make copies of books by writing out the whole book by hand. |
Magnetic(磁的)compass A compass is usually used to tell you what direction you are going. The Magnetic compass was first used by the Chinese around A.D 200. But at that time, people mainly used it for telling what would happen to them in the future. They began using it for sailing around the year 1000. |
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