M:Have you heard?The British government is planning to tax plastic bags?
W:Yes, it was on the news.They want to r
1 the amount of rubbish.I can’t help but feel that it’s a good idea because they can’t be recycled.
M:They’ve already done it in Ireland.If you go to the supermarket there, you have to p
2 for each plastic bag.
W:So most people use the s 3 bags over again, do they?
M:Yes.And the supermarket sells thick plastic bags which last l 4 .
W:And there’s a lot less rubbish in the streets, isn’t there?
M:Yes.But it’s not just in Europe that plastic bags are Damaging the e 5 .In many d 6 countries it’s even worse.
They’re causing a serious problem.In south Africa, for example, they call plastic bags the national flowers because the wind blows them e 7 .Now the government has stopped them and you can go to prison for 10 years if you use them.
W:In Bangladesh too.They say that plastic bags were largely responsible for the terrible floods in 1988 and 1998.They blocked the drains and rainwater couldn’t flow a 8 .
M:It’s scary.They don’t look dangerous but there’re so many that t hey can kill.In India, cows eat them in the streets and then die.
W:In some parts of India they are stopped.From what I understand, you can go to prison for 7 years if you use them.
M:I can’t help but feel that sending people to prison is very hard.
W:That’s because the situation is so s 9 .And people are not reasonable.They won’t change their h 10 .
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With the social development and progress,TV has become a necessity for people at home
Nowadays,almost every family has a TV set, and a________
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everyone likes watching TV.TV has become ________of our life.
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TV has many ________, for example, it informs us of the
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________(最新的)news that is happening in the world;it can open our
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eyes, e________our knowledge and also help us to see more
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about the world.________(然而),it also has some disadvantages.People
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waste too much time ________watching TV and their normal life
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and work are ________(影响).To the children who spend too
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much time in watching TV, it can do________to their sight
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and health.So we should ________(控制)the time of watching TV.