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  On Sunday, April 22, people all over the world take time out to appreciate(珍惜)the earth that we all share.It's Earth Day, a special day to learn about our planet(星球)and how to take care of it.

  On Earth Day, some people listen to speeches about the environment.Others help clean up their offices or save water and electricity at home.Your parents may even decide to take a day off from driving their cars.

  The idea for Earth Day came from a U.S.Senator(参议员), who was worried about the pollution and the health of plants and animals.And the idea quickly caught on.In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated.More than 20 million people in cities all over the U.S.took part in.Since then, Earth Day has been used to educate people about their role in taking care of our planet.

  Now, Earth Day has become a global celebration.In 1990, 200 million people from 140 countries took part in clean-ups, tree planting and other environmental events on Earth Day.

1.When is Earth Day?

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2.Who came up with the idea for Earth Day?

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3.What does the underlined sentence mean in Chinese?

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4.A lot of people celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970, didn't they?

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5.What is Earth Day?

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解析:

  1.On April 22.

  2.A U.S.Senator.

  3.这种想法很快就流行起来。

  4.Yes, they did.

  5.It's a special day to learn about our planet and how to take care of it.


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  Welcome to the energy science exhibition, Journey of Harmonious(和谐的)Energy.It opened on March 20th in Beijing.In this cool place, you can learn about different types of energy, how to use energy and how to protect our environment.Let's take a look.

  When you walk your dog, you use energy.When you do your homework, you also use energy.When you listen to music on the radio, you are using energy again.

  Energy is the ability(能力)to do work, and it's everywhere.

  Energy has many different forms.Every time you watch television or turn on a light, you are using electrical energy.The food you eat has chemical energy.The energy you use to move is called motion.

  Our bodies also use energy.Do you want to know how much energy you use every day? A special machine at the exhibition can tell you.Type in some information about your weight, height, age and job.Then the machine gives you your answer.According to the exhibition, a person usually uses 9.3 liters(升)of oil worth of energy a day.

  Visitors can also learn about some advanced technologies(高科技)for getting energy.For example, they can use some technology for exploring the deep sea and finding oil.

  How can we save energy?

  ●Turn off the lights, computers, TV and other electrical things when you aren't using them.

  ●Change the water level on your washing machine to match the load(装载)size.

  ●Lower the temperature setting on your water heater to save energy.

  ●Take a short shower instead of a long one.

  ●Don't open the microwave door too often to check on your food.Every time you open it, you waste some heat energy.

  ●Don't open the door of your refrigerator(冰箱)very often.A refrigerator needs a lot of electricity to get cold again after you open it.

  Did you know?

  If you shouted for a total(合计) of eight years, seven months and six days, you would make enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

  ●A desktop computer uses twice as much energy as a laptop one.(笔记本电脑).

  ●A lot of sunlight falls on the Earth every minute.It's enough to meet the world's energy needs for a year.

1.根据短文内容完成句子(每空限填一个单词)

From the first paragraph of the passage, we know ________ and ________ the energy science exhibition opened.

2.根据短文内容完成句子(每空限填一个单词)。

According to the passage, try to use a laptop computer because it can use ________ energy ________ a desktop one.

3.根据短文回答问题。

According to the passage, how many types of energy can you learn from the energy science exhibition? What are they?

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4.把短文中画底线的句子译成汉语。

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5.根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子(限12词以内)回答问题。

To protect the environment, what do you want to do most after the Journey of Harmonious Energy?

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  Good morning, boys and girl.Today I'll talk about going online.

  We know that there are too many net bars around us.The Internet can make our lives interesting and enjoyable.Many of us like going online very much because we can learn how to use the computer.We can learn English and read some newspapers and magazines to know more around us.It can make us clever in playing computer games.Also when we can send e-mails to our friends they can get them at once.It can help us contact people from all over the world.

  But some students spend too much time in playing computer games and some stay in the net bars all day and all night.Some girls even get to have boyfriends or some boys get to have girlfriends online.They write too many letters to each other.It takes them too much time to chat online so they do worse in their lessons and they don't study well any more.I think we mustn't get online when it is time for us to study.We can do it in summer or winter holidays.I think we should get online with our teachers or parents.

  At the same time, if we have lots of free time, we can do some activities after class.We usually have activities from 4:50 to 5:50 in the afternoon.You can play basket ball or football.We also have some interest groups in school, such as drawing, singing and dancing.We can go to the English corner on Monday afternoon.We hope we can spend more time on our subjects or on such activities that we can learn a lot from and less time on the Internet.

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