Go Green  Enjoy tap water

(1)IT'S THE RESPNSIBLE CHOICE

Producing plastic bottles and transporting water require a lot of energy and resources(资源)…just to land in the waste!

(2)  IT SAVES MONEY

Bottled water costs money. Tap water is free for you!

Go Green  Eat responsibly

 (1)                           

Shorter distance(距离) requires less transport fuels(燃料)…and less chemicals needed to keep food fresh.

(2)EAT LESS MEAT

Meat production needs a lot of resources.

(3)AVOID PACKING

Packaging requires energy and resources just to end up in the waste…

Go Green  Keep it on the screen

…and if printing cannot be avoided remember to:

PRINT DOUBLE-SIDED and in black-white.

Set the printer/copy machine to ENERGY SAVING model when done

REUSE single-sided printed paper for internal documents(内部文件) or as not paper…

Go Green  E-communicate

Reduce what gives out quite a lot of Greenhouse Gas(温室效应气体):instead of traveling, make use of VIDEO MEETING, WEB MEETING, and the good old phone.

  For more information visit www.greeningtheblue.org.

    ①What does the city of the future look like? Flying cars? Robots? Or smog（烟雾）-eating buildings?

    ②Arconic, an American company, has made plans to build a 4.8-kilometer-high skyscraper（摩天大楼）. It says that the super tall building can clean not only itself but also the air around it by “eating” smog and pollutants（污染物）. But how is it done?

    ③Sherri McCleary, s scientist at Arconic, says they have introduced a new technology called EcoClean. It is a special coating that pulls pollutants out of the air. With a little help from sunlight and water vapour（水蒸气），the coating will produce atoms（原子能）called free radicals（自由基）. It is these free radicals that will take in air pollutants, break them down, and then leave the air cleaner.

④But “eating” smog and pollutants is not the only thing this skyscraper is able to do. In fact, thanks to 3D printing, the materials the building used will become even better and stronger—not only making the skyscraper look more modern, but also make it possible to stand strong winds and terrible weather.

    ⑤However, some people don't think it will work out well. Air pollution has its own character and it harms lots of cities. Does the smog-eating building have such a magical ability to stop the pollution? It seems impossible to bring the pollution under control in a short time. We should prepare ourselves for a hard fight against the pollution.

    ⑥Sounds impossible? Anyway, Arconic believes a skyscraper of this kind will be built by 2062.

    The Wandering Earth(流浪地球), China's first successful movie whose background is space, as shown on February 5. It is based on(基于)a short story of the same name by Liu Cixin, China's top  science—fiction writer.

    ⒈Capsule(太空舱)—a core(核心)element(要素)

    The space capsule used in the film has made the audience(观众)interested. "This was the first time anything like that was done, "said Wang Hong, the producer(制片人)of the movie. At first, the production(制作)team planned to use a small space capsule that had appeared in an earlier film, but found that it could not meet their needs for filming.

    ⒉Giant vehicles(巨大的车辆)—key to the film

    Giant vehicles are the key element in the film. Famous actors, Ng Man—tat and Wu Jing, said they could not even imagine what these vehicles would be like before filming, because the idea was far ahead of our time.

    The production team made about 10, 000 props(道具)to show the space better, including the giant vehicles.

    ⒊Saving planet itself

    In the film, the earth itself is pushed forward by 10, 000 giant

thrusters(推进器). It carries 3.5 billion people about 4.2 light years

through space in order to avoid destruction(破坏)by the dying sun.

In Liu's story, each thruster is 11, 000 meters in height.

    ⒋Amazing opening

    At the beginning of the film, it shows the environment and life in an

underground city—a big tree growing upside down, busy bookstores and snack bars and so on. There are also many snow scenes (片段)throughout the whole film.

     Xinhua News Agency reported 3,000 yellow school buses started their service in Chongqing1the end of 2011. These school buses are like the ones in the US as we usually see on TV and in 2 .

    The school buses are bright yellow in colour. They are 3than the army's cars. They are from the US. The yellow school bus has a big 4.This keeps the students safe when other cars crash into the school bus. The bus also has some   5devices(设备), such as warning lights and a stop signal arm.

    In China, school buses became popular in the past few years. On the bus, except(除了) the bus driver, there is always a 6whose duty is to watch the students. Children usually rest on the bus. Some of them also recite texts. School buses in China are not 7.The fee is different from school to school.

    Vienna is a beautiful old city on the River Danube in the center of Europe. It's the capital city of Austria and the center of European classical music. In the 18th century a lot of musicians came to study and work in Vienna.

    In the Strauss family, there were two composers called Johann Strauss: the father and the son. The father, Johann Strauss the elder, wrote and played music for traditional dances, called the waltz. His dance music made him famous all over Europe. The son, Johann Strauss the younger, was also very successful and popular. He wrote over 150 waltzes. In 1867 he wrote The Blue Danube waltz.

    Mozart was another very important composer. He was born in Austria in 1756. Before he was six, he played not only the piano but also the violin. His family took him around Europe and he gave concerts in many cities. He wrote hundreds of wonderful pieces of music. But he became very poor and died in 1791 when he was only 35. Like Johann Strauss, father and son, he was a great European musician, and many people still think his music is perfect.