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初中英语牛津版(深圳·广州)九年级下册Module 2 Environmental problems Unit 3 The environment同步练习
Why do we like drinking water from plastic bottles? Some people think it is healthy and clean. Others drink bottled water because it's easy--you can carry it around with you. In hot countries, like Greece, we often buy bottles of cold water in the summer.
However, making lots of plastic is not a good idea for many reasons. First of all, we need a lot of oil for plastic products. We usually use oil as a resource of energy. If we reduced the number of bottles we made, we wouldn't need so much oil. Plastic bottles also pollute the environment. If we recycled all our plastic bottles, we wouldn't need so much space for rubbish dumps. But in Greece, we don't recycle much of the plastic we use. In 2006, Greeks recycled only about 10% of plastic waste. The rest became rubbish on land and in rivers and seas.
So next time you want to throw away a plastic bottle in the litter bin, stop and think. If you recycled it, you would help the environment. But what can you do when there isn't a recycling bin near you? Well, there are lots of useful ways that you can use your bottles again. For example, an empty bottle makes a great piggy bank for your pocket money, and if you cut in half, you will have a plant pot. Go green! You can make a difference.
Many animals are in danger around the world. Here are some examples.
The blue whale(蓝鲸) lives in oceans around the world. It is the largest animal in the world, but it eats the smallest animals for food. Many people kill the whales. And not enough clean water is also a problem. There may be only 1,300 blue whales left. | |
The wild Bactrian camel lives in Northwest China and Mongolia. It is a large camel and the only species(种类) in the world with two humps(驼峰). There are perhaps 950 left in the wild. | |
Many Asian elephants live in India but you can find them in other countries as well. There are many elephants which work for people. There might be 35,000 Asian elephants left in the wild. |
Yang Jiang, the famous woman writer and translator (翻译家), is well- known to us all.
Yang was born in Beijing in 1911. Her real name is Yang Jikang. She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate (研究生) in the 1930s. There she met Qian Zhongshu. They fell in love and got married. In the 1940s, she started to use the name Yang Jiang as her pen name. Since then, she has been commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang. In the 1950s, she worked for Peking University and started to learn Spanish. She began to write short novels in the 1980s. Many of them are famous, such as The Old Wang (《老王》), After Baptism (《洗澡之后》) and We Three (《我们仨》).
Although Madam Yang has passed away, we will never forget the great madam.
Yang Jikang | |
Introduction | Born: in Beijing in 1911 {#blank#}1{#/blank#}: Yang Jiang Her {#blank#}2{#/blank#}: Qian Zhongshu |
Experiences | In {#blank#}3{#/blank#}: graduated from university In the 1950s: worked for Peking University, started to learn Spanish In the 1980s: began to write {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. |
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} works | The Old Wang, After Baptism, We Three |
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