Everyone Can Change the World

    What can we do to help protect the environment? It seems useless to just pick up a piece of trash, but what will happen if you keep doing it every day? Tommy Kleyn, an ordinary man from the Netherlands, may give you the answer.

    Tommy Kleyn walked past a polluted river on his way to work every day. It used to be a beautiful view, but the trash on the bank made it dirty and smelly. So Tommy decided to pick up the trash along the river a little bit at a time after work. "It took me about 30 minutes to fill one garbage bag with trash, but one garbage bag didn't seem helpful in a place as polluted as this. I decided to fill one bag of trash each day as I passed by," Tommy said. Every day, Tommy took pictures of the river and shared them on his Facebook page. To his surprise, in just six days, he had made great progress with his cleanup effort. He felt happy and kept doing it. Gradually, more and more people knew about Tommy's story. Other people in the community began following in his footsteps and cleaning up trash on their way home, too.

    "The idea is to encourage people to fill one garbage bag with litter each day. It only takes 30 minutes, but it really makes a difference and you will be amazed at how good you feel afterwards," he said.

    People from all over the world have been moved and inspired by Tommy's story. No effort is useless if we keep doing it every day. Ordinary people like you and me can also make a difference to the world we live in if we take actions right now.

    A bookstore chain(连锁书店), “Popular Bookmall(大众书局)” introduced their unique style of book distribution(分布) in Shanghai back in November. This experimental store offers books at very low prices, and there is no staff(职员) to require shoppers to pay before taking books away. Sounds like a book lover's paradise(天堂)！

    Popular Bookmall had already set up such a shop in Nanjing. The organizers of the Nanjing store report that it was a great success, enough shoppers voluntarily paid for their books. But most older “honesty stores” in China did not receive enough honest shoppers. For example, a shelf-service restaurant opened in Fujian province years ago which allowed shoppers to pay whatever they chose, but about one –fifth of shoppers paid nothing. Therefore some people have speculated(推断) that Chinese are becoming more honest. The organizers of the “honesty stores” say that their goal is to encourage people in China to remember how important honesty is.

    Many are cared about dishonesty in China. Even at Popular Bookmall, not everybody choose to pay for their books. How can we encourage ourselves to be honest? We should listen to our conscience(道德心). This has deep roots in Chinese culture. Confucius(孔子) taught Chinese to be conscientious and honest.

    But there is also a great rational(合理的) reason for “honesty stores”: the more honest people there are in society, the more reasons we have to trust others. And if people trusted each other, they'd be more willing to share. We could contribute to a “sharing economy” where you do not have to think about saving or spending money all the time, but helping other people. For all these reasons, society is built on trust, not only trade.

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Here are some restaurants. Some people are hungry (饥饿的). Please help them choose restaurants.

⑴Nancy, a seventy-year-old granny, lives near the center of the city. She often gets up early and she wants to have dinner near her house. She likes fresh salads very much. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

⑵Jerry, a school boy who likes having dinner with his friends. He likes chatting with his friends while he is having dinner. And they want to have dinner with little money. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}

⑶Charlie, an Australian art teacher. He likes drinking a cup of coffee after meals. And he often chats on MSN with his daughter when he drinks coffee. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

⑷Lucy is a college student who majors in Chinese Culture. She is interested in Chinese music and Chinese tea. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

⑸Bob, a businessman from England, likes fish and chips very much. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

    Eyes are important. It's necessary for us to take care of them for our whole lives.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} No. In fact, if we do a few simple things every day, we can protect our eyes and reduce (减少) the risk of hurting them.

    Most doctors agree that we can improve and protect our eyes by eating lots of fresh fruit. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Vegetables like carrots are good for our eyes. We need to protect our eyes when spending a lot of time in bright sunlight. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}What's more, it is important to protect our eyes when we work at some places. For example, we should always wear goggles (护目镜) in chemistry labs. And we should not spend too much time in front of the computer or television screen. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}That is why we should take a short break every fifteen or thirty minutes if we have to use the computer for a long time. Keeping good eyesight is also important. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}

A. We can do some eye exercises to keep good eyesight.

B. Is it difficult to protect our eyes?

C. Using computers for a long time may cause eye problems

D. It's important for us to eat all kinds of vegetables.

E. The best way is to wear sunglasses.