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When people talk about air pollution, they are usually thinking about outdoor air 1 . But do you know that there is also air pollution inside homes, offices, hotels and other buildings? The air in your home can be 2 to 100 times more polluted than the air outdoors! In fact, some American doctors say that 50% of illnesses have 2 to do with polluted indoor air.
A lot of pollution comes from indoor activities 3 smoking and cooking. As most people 4 about 80%-90% of their time inside buildings, it is important to take indoor air pollution seriously, too.
Air pollution influences our health 5 . When the air is polluted, not only young children and old people 6 from it, 7 people with health problems suffer as well. Indoor air pollution can 8 people's eyes, noses and throats. Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, can also 9 to lung cancer and heart disease! In the great London fog in 1952, 4, 000 people died in a few days 10 the pollution! It is said that half a million young children and women die each year in India because of indoor air pollution!
There are some easy things you can do to protect the environment and the earth. Choose ideas from the list or come up with a few of your own.
Plant flowers, grass or trees.
Whenever you visit a park or beach, take away what you bring there—keep rubbish in a bag until you can put it in a dustbin.
Turn off the lights and TV sets when you leave the room. This can save a lot of electricity.
Turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. You can save some water by not letting it run. Also, use a glass cup instead of a paper cup because this saves paper.
Keep the doors and windows closed in winter to keep warm air in.
Give your old books and magazines to a library instead of throwing them away.
Give your old clothes to poor children you know instead of throwing them away.
Use both sides of paper.
Stop pouring dirty water into the rivers or lakes nearby.
Encourage all your friends to do the same things you do to help protect the earth. You don't have to wait until Earth Day to do these things. Make every day Earth Day. If everyone makes a contribution to protecting the environment, the world will become much more beautiful.
What do people do with their old, out of date but still useful computers? Most people don't know how to deal with them. Many old computers are put away. Many more are simply thrown away as rubbish.
Finally, some companies are thinking of ways to bring down the number of old computers. Sony has agreed to help recycle old Sony products(产品). Dell, Hewlett Packard and other companies now also take back some old computers of their own brands.
In some countries, laws have been passed, too. Computer companies have to pay for collecting and recycling their used products. And 70% of computer waste must be recycled. The idea behind the laws is that computer companies themselves should pay for the cost. That will encourage them to make computers which are easier and cheaper to repair and upgrade(升级).
Yet many people are throwing away good computers, while others cannot afford them at all. Hundreds of organizations are working on this problem. They collect and repair old computers. Some also teach others how to repair computers. These repaired computers then go to schools, charities(慈善团体) or people who need them. Giving a used computer to one of these organizations can turn one person's rubbish into someone else's useful things and cut down waste, too.
A kind of little cars may take the place of today's big ones many years later. If everyone drives such cars in the future, there will be less pollution in the air. There will also be more space for parking in cities, and the streets will be less crowded.
The little cars of the future will cost less. Driving will be safer, too, since these little cars can go only 65 kilometers an hour. The cars of the future will be fine for going around a city, but they will not be useful for a long way. Little cars will go 450 kilometers before they need to stop for more gasoline (汽油). If big cars are still used with the small ones, two kinds of roads will be needed in the future. Some roads will be needed for the big, faster cars and other roads will be needed for the small, slower ones.
A: Hi, Jane. Would you like to help save the environment?
B: I'd like to.
A: Well, first, you can start by turning off the lights when you leave a room.
B: Yes. That's easy. What's next?
A: Second, you can ride a bicycle. Don't take a bus or a taxi if you don't have to.
B: What else?
A: Third, try to recycle paper.
B: Mmm. Newspapers, magazines, we have a lot of paper at home. Good idea.
A: The fourth idea is to turn off the shower when you're not using it.
B:
A: Yes. Get wet, turn off the shower, put the shampoo (洗发剂) in your hair and then turn on the shower and wash it out.
B: Yes, We have to save water.
A.But what can I do for you? B.I think water is very important to us. C.You mean when I have shampoo in my hair? D.But what can I do? E.That will save a lot of money, too. F.Take a bag when you go shopping. G.Sometimes I turn off the lights without thinking. |
On very cold winter days, a group of Japanese children traveled a long way and arrived at a small island where nobody lived. After setting up a camp, they caught fish in the sea, and walked on the snow to find firewood, wild fruit and fresh water. Then they made a fire to do some cooking. They were not homeless children or modern Robinson (鲁滨逊). They were all pupils from a primary school and campers of special"hardship（苦难）camp".
Every year primary and middle schools in Japan organize such camps to train the children's spirit of bearing hardships. Such places like thick forests and far-off（遥远的）mountains are often chosen as camp places.
The Japanese education circles (教育界) usually think it necessary to give children chances of suffering（经历）hardships. Children in Japan now may hardly find times of hardships, because of the rapid growth of national economy（经济）and improvement in people's living conditions. The experts（专家）think that such hardship camps can help children learn to live and develop in the struggle against nature.
It's said that such hardship camps are warmly accepted by both Japanese school children and their parents.
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Ben was a boss. When he was young, he didn't work hard. So he knew about the world, and he was often laughed at in public and sometimes he got into trouble. So he a lot of books and shelves and put them in his sitting room so that the visitors could see them as soon as they went in. He often went to the parties and listened to other men said carefully. He hoped to make friends with them.
Once Ben was told that it was a famous professor's birthday that day. He hurried there with his . He gave the professor (教授)some expensive presents and the old man him very much. After dinner they began to talk some famous books. He could hardly answer questions. The professor asked him the easiest one, "What was Shakespeare" "It was a of drink," answered Ben. "But people do not like it now. " The professor had a smile and soon he stopped talking with Ben. On way home, Ben's wife said, "You a mistake just now. Shakespeare is a kind of cake, like the Chinese mooncake."
