题目内容
The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. The foundation is based in the state of Maryland. It was created more than 50 years ago. It teaches people ways to protect the environment.
At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create. Hanna Seligmann works for the foundation. “So let’s figure out what is in our bag of trash.” She shows adults and children how to reduce waste during the holiday gift-giving season. “You can sort it as a cardboard item or you can sort it as a plastic item.” “We encourage using things that are already in your house like newspaper, old magazines, using a gift within a gift.” Urging people to recycle is important in the Washington, D.C., area, because Potomac River, one of the most famous rivers in the country lies there.
“Over time we realized that really just doing trash cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And so it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative (倡议) itself.” says Seligman.
The Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative is an effort by the Alice Ferguson Foundation to support clean agricultural methods. It includes educational programs teaching children about the kinds of pollution that can enter the watershed.
One activity is called the Trash Timeline Game. It teaches children that the things they throw away do not decompose, at the same rate. For example, paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core may take two months to rot. A metal can take up to 100 years.
1.The Alice Ferguson Foundation ________.
A. devotes itself to keeping citizens engaged in going green
B. deals with relationship between people
C. teaches people how to form groups
D. concerns itself about children’s holidays
2.At the end of the year, the Alice Ferguson Foundation is busy ________.
A. buying plastic items
B. celebrating Christmas
C. figuring out how much waste was produced
D. educating people to reduce less waste while enjoying Christmas
3.How to get to the root cause of environmental protection, according to Seligman?
A. Environmental education. B. Doing trash cleanups.
C. Saving water. D. Celebrating holidays less.
4.What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?
A. Give off. B. Break down. C. Come out. D. Pack up.
