Nowadays, too much carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet and ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.
To live a low-carbon life, we’d better save energy as much as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don’t do the cooking with electricity.
To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don’t know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian (素食主义者) can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it’s really necessary.
To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportations (交通工具). On one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It not only waste money but also causes trouble to the earth, because making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.
There are many other ways to live a low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.
任务一:根据短文内容,用简洁的句子或短语完成下列表格。

Advice
How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
Advice 1
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Advice 2
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Advice 3
﹡ Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when it’s warm.
Advice 4
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Advice 5
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Advice 6
﹡ Be supposed to do less shopping.
Advice 7
﹡ Recycle things, plant trees and reuse textbooks.
任务二:除了文中提到的建议外,你一定还有许多自己的想法,请写一条与大家分享吧。
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There are many different kinds of cars in the world. My aunt thinks this is because cars are ____1­  their drivers. She says, “Rich people have expensive cars, big people have large cars, and old people drive old cars.” But I don't 2 her.

  My neighbour, Mrs. Hill, is 82 years old. She drives only on Tuesday, and she drives only to the bank. She 3   drives more than 30 kilometres an hour. Do you think Mrs. Hill has a very   ­­­­­___  and small car? No, her car is new. It's very large, and it _5  go 200 kilometres for each hour!

My friend is 6  . He draws beautiful pictures with lots of colours. But his car is black! Mrs. Bates has a very, very old one. There is often something 7 with the car. Does she drive that kind of car because she is poor? No, she has four factories and 8   dollars in the bank. My aunt Mary has a very 9 car, though she drives to the country with her husband, her two children, her mother and their dog.

Now you have 10    my friends and their cars. Do you agree with my aunt? Maybe you have a car. Does it say anything about you?

1.                A.for            B.with           C.like  D.among

 

2.                A.like            B.look after       C.agree with D.chat with

 

3.                A.never          B.always          C.sometimes D.often

 

4.                A.old            B.new           C.broken   D.beautiful

 

5.                A.may           B.can            C.must D.has to

 

6.                A.a teacher       B.a reporter       C.a writer   D.an artist

 

7.                A.interesting      B.wrong          C.mistake   D.trouble

 

8.                A.twenty         B.two hundred     C.two thousand  D.two million

 

9.                A.big            B.small           C.expensive D.new

 

10.               A.read about      B.knew          C.seen  D.met with

 

 

There is not enough oil in the world now. As time goes by, it becomes less and less, so what are we going to do when it runs out? Perhaps we will go back to using horses, carriages and bicycles.

In the Second World War, some people didn’t use gas made from petroleum(石油) in their cars. They made gas from wood and plants instead. The car didn’t go fast, but they ran, so this was better than nothing. However, in the future, we can’t cut down all our trees to make gas; we need our trees for other things, too.

Besides different types of gas, we can also use electricity(电) to run our cars, but first we must make the electricity! Some countries have coal(煤) and they make electricity with that, but we might not always have coal, either. Other countries have big, strong rivers, and they can use the power of water to turn turbines(涡轮机) and make electricity more easily and cheaply.

We are also able to get power from the ocean tides. We put turbines into the mouth of the river. Then the tide comes in, the water turns the turbines and then it goes out, it turns them again.

Which of these ways will be used to run our cars in the future?

1.When might people have to go back to using horses and carriages?

A. When they are poor.  

B. When they run out of oil.

C. When they need more exercise.

D. When there aren’t any big trees in the world.

2.What did some people use to make gas in the Second World War?

A. Water.                    B. Coal.

C. Wood and plants.          D. Tides.

3.How many ways are suggested to make electricity in the passage?

A. 2.        B. 5.        C. 4.     D. 3.

4.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. There is more petroleum than we can use now.

B. Trees are needed for some other things besides making gas.

C. We got electricity from ocean tides in the old days. 

D. Gas wasn’t used to run cars in the Second World War.

5.The passage is mainly about __________.

A. how to run our cars            B. what to do when oil runs out

C. different types of gas         D. the ways to make electricity

 

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