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牛津深圳版初中英语八年级上册Module 3 Culture and history 能力测试卷(含听力音频)
After nearly 60 years of lighting our homes and streets, halogen bulbs (卤素灯泡)were stopped to be used across Europe in September, 2018. Instead, people should start to use LEDs. LEDs consume (消耗)five times less energy (能量)than halogen bulbs and using LEDs would stop more than 15 million tons of carbon emissions a year. There were some ideas about the change.
Philips, a lighting producer, thought that people would save about £112 a year from the change because LEDs could work for longer hours than halogens and LEDs use less power.
However, there were people who disagreed with the change. Jonathan Bullock, a spokesman in the European Parliament told The Guardian, "It's not right to stop the use of halogen bulbs, because people will have to spend a lot of money buying expensive LED bulbs. Poor people will lose most from these kinds of changes. People should have the chance to choose their bulbs and we shouldn't make them change if they don't want to do it."
In fact, what he said seemed not to be a good reason. The price of each halogen bulb is often lower than that of an LED bulb. But halogen bulbs use more energy. They only last for two years but LEDs can be used for 15 to 20 years. Each British home has about 10 halogen bulbs and uses each bulb for around three hours a day.
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Brought out on Aug 30, a three-episode web series ( 三集网剧) called Escape From the British Museum 《逃出大英博物馆》has become popular online with {#blank#}1{#/blank#} touching and creative story. The series follows the journey home of a Chinese jade teapot (玉茶壶) that has come to life. She runs {#blank#}2{#/blank#} from the British Museum and comes across a Chinese reporter {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Zhang Yongan who helps the artifact (文物) return to China.
The series, created by Chinese vloggers (博主) Jianbing Guozai and Xiatian Meimei, looks to attract people's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} to Chinese artifacts that are kept abroad(在国外). To get ready for the TV show, they {#blank#}5{#/blank#} making their own videos for three months and went to the UK to learn about the story of the Chinese jade teapot.
Many people have been touched by the lines in the series, such {#blank#}6{#/blank#} "I have been lost for a long time." and "As long as I'm with my family, I'm safe." Also, the face of the "jade teapot" is very{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. She is surprised when she {#blank#}8{#/blank#} her own place with the reporter's big house. Viewers say this shows that the British Museum doesn't take good {#blank#}9{#/blank#} of the artifacts.
In mid-August, it was reported that more than 2,000 artifacts from the British Museum were {#blank#}10{#/blank#}, stolen or damaged (损坏的) . This has caused a heated discussion on social media in China, calling for the return of Chinese artifacts.
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