读写任务(共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
School News: Yesterday, Dec. 14, the grand ceremony: To Build Our School an Eco-school(国际生态学校), was held on the school playground. First, our geography teacher just gave us a very brief introduction about Eco-school, which is one of five environmental education programmes run internationally by the Foundation for Environmental Education(FEE). It is the biggest environmental education programme for young children all over the world. It aims to help the school improve the environment, raise their awareness of environment. Being a member of the programme, we students can share on the Internet experience with foreign students, which could provide a bigger stage for us.
After that, the schoolmaster Mr Liu made a speech titled: “To save and treasure our resources, to love and be masters of the school!” He pointed out that we students should bear the responsibity to protect our environment and learn to save.
Finally, on behalf of all the students, Tan Peiying, Chairman of the Students’ Union, made a speech to call on us all to take action now to make our school a green one.
The School is very serious about the programme and well-prepared, one teacher is assigned to be in charge of the programme, and it also hopes to be admitted one of the first eco-schools.
[写作内容]
1.以约30个词概括以上“校园新闻”的内容要点;
2.然后以约120个词就“节约资源,爱我校园 Save Resources and Love Our School”的主题发表你的看法,内容包括:
(1)您认为校园里存在哪些浪费的现象;
(2)谈谈这些浪费现象带来的危害;
(3)建设“国际生态学校”,您该做点什么?
[写作要求]
1.在作文中可以使用自己亲身的经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容但不得直接引用原文中的句子;
2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。
 Save Resources and Love Our School
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             
                                                                             

Soaring divorce rates around the globe are affecting the environment, American researchers suggested in a study released Monday.

Michigan State University researcher Jianguo “Jack” Liu and his assistant Eunice Yu said the increasing number of divorces leads to more households with fewer people and greater consumption of water and energy. They said housing units require space, construction materials and fuel to heat and cool, regardless of the number of inhabitants.

For example, in the United States in 2005, divorced households consumed an extra 73 billion kilowatt hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water. An additional 38 million extra rooms required heating and lighting that same year due to divorced households.

“A married household actually uses resources more efficiently than a divorced household”, Liu said. He said that in cohabitating households, people will watch the same television, share the air conditioning and heat and use the same refrigerator, all things that use energy at a regularly stable rate regardless of the number of users.

Liu said he was not condemning divorce, “Some people really need to get divorces.” He said that cohabitation was simply a more environmentally friendly option. Additionally, the researchers noted that trends other than divorce are also changing family living structures, such as the end of multiple generations of a family sharing a home and people remaining single longer.

“People’s first reaction to this research is surprise, and then it seems simple.” Liu said in a release, “But a lot of things become simple after research is done. Our challenges were to connect the dots and quantify their relationships. People have been talking about how to protect the environment and refuse climate change, but divorce is an overlooked factor that needs to be considered.”

He said the increasing energy demands caused by divorce should be considered by governments when they are creating environmental policies.

This passage is mainly meant to ____.

A. inform the reader of the increasing divorce in America

B. emphasize the importance of protecting the environment

C. tell people the effect divorce has on the environment

D. appeal to married people to keep their households

According to the passage, what’s the attitude of Mr. Liu towards divorce?

A. Supportive       B. Objective.       C. Indifferent.       D. Unclear.

It can be inferred from the passage that ____.

A. divorced households will promote the sales of products

B. married households are more willing to protect the environment

C. divorced households contribute more to the society’s development

D. divorce is not taken into account when people are protecting the environment

From this passage we can find that ____.

A. divorce rates are quickly rising globally these years

B. cohabiting households will increase consumption of water and energy

C. to divorce is a wise option according to the passage

D. the end of multi-generations of a family will save energy

 

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