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A. City Soccer Match The soccer match in our city is coming. Hope all the soccer fans can take part in it! B. City Library There are over 1,000 books of different kinds in this library. Two big reading rooms can hold 2,000 readers. It's open from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on weekends. C. Health Club Do you want to look after your health? If you join our club, you can swim, play basketball, volleyball and ping-pong in the gym(体育馆). D. Running If you keep running for 30 minutes every morning, you can be thin and healthy. And it can also make you clever. E. Canon Digital (数码) Camera A Canon Digital Camera with 8 million pixels(像素)is on sale for 2,500 yuan in Wonderful Supermarket. |
March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.
The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Its source(源头)on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is drying up. In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.
The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Now it is down to 2 billion m³ or so. Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year. One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either.
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Mostly it's damming(筑坝)and global warming that make rivers dry. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Warmer weather takes water away. The glacier(冰川)are becoming smaller. The source of the Yellow River is drying up because of it. Global warming has had certain effects on water sources. Droughts happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.
A. Dams provide fields with water and make power. B. How does it happen? C. It used to carry 32 billion m³ of water a year. D. But now it has a serious problem. E. Global warming is making things worse. |
Today taxis are very common in cities all around the world. While London is world- famous for its special back taxis, New York's yellow taxis are also well- known all over the world. How about the taxis in Mumbai, India? Before a project (项目)named Taxi Fabric, taxis got little public attention. But now things are different because some of them have changed their common looks. Artist Sanket Avlani started the project last year with some other artists. He said," Taxi drivers here try hard to decorate(装饰)their taxis and make them stand out from others, but they usually pay little attention to the insides of their taxis. "He hopes to use his art project to connect young designers(设计师)with taxi drivers." The designs that cover the taxi seats are often boring and forgettable ,but they can be improved with the help of designers in Mumbai.
Last summer the project raised over £l1, 000, and they invited local designers to create different designs inside the taxis. All the designs are about Mumbai. The designers are local but they got their ideas from all around the world. So far they've created 26 different designs, which make the insides of Mumbai's taxis as colorful as the views from their windows. Taxi Fabric is now hoping to spread to other cities in India. They are also inviting designers from all over India to take part in the project and planning to redesign buses, trains and subways besides taxis.
Taxi Fabric Project in Mumbai, India |
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Starters |
Artist Sanket Avlani and some other {#blank#}1{#/blank#} |
Reasons |
Taxi drivers in Mumbai don't pay enough attention to the insides of their taxis. Young designers can turn the common insides of the taxis into something {#blank#}2{#/blank#}and unforgettable |
Achieve-ments |
It{#blank#}3{#/blank#}over £11,00 last year. It has created 26 different designs so far. *All the designs are about Mumbai *The design ideas are from all around the world. Some of the taxis have taken on a new look not only outside but also {#blank#}4{#/blank#} |
Hopes |
It can be spread to other cities in India, Designers from all over{#blank#}5{#/blank#}can take part. Other kinds of public transportation can be redesigned. |
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