When your pen is broken, you think that's the end of its life. You throw it away. It then joins tons of other rubbish that is becoming a big problem in cities. This happens in other countries, too. Most Americans are making 7 pounds (3.17kg) of rubbish a day. So, an American makes about 102 tons of rubbish in a lifetime.

If you simply throw away that broken pen, it goes to a landfill (垃圾填埋场) and is buried with other rubbish. To prevent polluting the groundwater, workers cover the rubbish with soil and keep it dry. And your pen will stay there for a long time, without having further use. But it could have a better place to stay in -the recycling bin. Have you ever noticed the different colors of rubbish bins in the street? Many cities in China have been running a waste-sorting campaign (垃圾分类运动). "They divide rubbish into "recyclable waste" and unrecyclable waste". Recycling waste can save energy, reduce (减少) greenhouse gas and keep landfill space free for unrecyclable waste.

Take your pen as an example. At the recycling factory, its metal parts could be taken out and reused to make other things.

But according to the experts, recycling is not enough. Making less waste should be put in the first place. They think that the best thing to do is just to keep using your things for as long as you can.

1.How much rubbish are most Americans making every day?

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2.How should we deal with broken pens in order to reuse them?

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3.What are the advantages of recycling waste?

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4.Which parts of the pen can be recycled?

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5.In the experts opinions, what should we do to make less waste?

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Who is Li Ziqi? For 7 million YouTube viewers and 20 million Weibo users, that's an easy question to answer. These days, the 29-year-old vlogger's videos about her country life went viral (走红). Her fans call her "the goddess of nature".

She is worthy of this title. In her video, she is a master of many kinds of skills such as cooking, painting, designing and farming. Li wears hanfu that she made herself. She also feeds silkworms in order to make quilts. Li grows plants as well. She is often seen preparing meals with vegetables picked from her backyard. She eats a seasonal diet.

Li grew up with her grandparents in a small village in Sichuan province. When she was 14, she went to the city to work, but returned to the countryside in 2012 to take care of her sick grandmother.

To make a living, Li runs an online store. At first, she just used her videos to make people know about her products. But the simple pleasures she showed quickly won her many fans around the world. For her foreign fans, what is even more interesting is Li's deep knowledge of food, nature and Chinese culture. "I can see how good Chinese people are at cooking! I never thought of preserving (保存) meat like that!" one foreign fan wrote on YouTube.

As China Daily said, Li shows the world that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of the simplest things. With her videos, the graceful (优雅的) girl has spread Chinese culture to the world.

1.Who is Li Ziqi?

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2.What is Li good at in her video?

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3.Why did Li return to the countryside?

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4.Is Li popular in foreign countries?

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5.What do you think of Li Ziqi?

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