Green Living 绿色生活 1
Green Living 绿色生活 How environmentally friendly are you? 你是不是环境友好? Read the text below and do the activity that follows. 阅读下面的短文, 然后完成练习 : We all know that humans are damaging the environment, but what can we do about it? Some people are trying to do their bit to be more environmentally friendly. Local councils in Britain encourage certain aspects of green living, such as recycling paper, tin, plastic and glass. They want to reduce the amount of rubbish going into landfill sites, because they are running out of places to dump rubbish. In some areas rubbish for recycling is collected from your doorstep, but in other areas, you have to take it to a special recycling place, such as a bottle bank. Another way of reducing the amount of rubbish you create is to use reusable products instead of disposable ones. For example, some people use strong shopping bags or boxes for their groceries instead of plastic carrier bags, or use washable nappies instead of disposables. More people are becoming interested in reducing their carbon footprint the amount of carbon they use up. They try to reduce their carbon emissions by cycling, using public transport or an electric car, rather than driving gasguzzling vehicles. Some people choose not to fly to go on holiday because aeroplanes are the biggest producers of carbon emissions. You can make green choices when buying food too. It s best to buy food which was locally grown or produced so that it hasn t been imported by air, or transported long distances by road. Houses can be environmentally friendly too. It takes less energy to heat a house if it has good insulation and double glazing. You can also create your own energy if you have solar panels or a wind turbine fitted though these can be expensive. You can also save water by using a rain water butt for washing the car or watering the garden. It s even possible to use a system where grey water water which has been through a tap once already, is used to flush toilets. Some new housing projects are being built specifically to be as environmentally friendly as possible. 2
Glossary 词汇表 to do their bit 做他们能做的 local councils 地方政府 landfill 填埋场 bottle bank 玻璃瓶回收站 disposable 一次性用的 carbon footprint 生态足迹 gas-guzzling 费油的 insulation 绝缘, 保温 solar panels 太阳能电板 water butt 积水罐 environmentally friendly 环境友好 recycling 回收 to dump 扔掉, 抛弃 reusable 可再次使用的 carrier bags 口袋, 拎袋 emissions 排放量 imported 进口的 double glazing 双层玻璃 wind turbine 风力发电涡轮 to flush 冲水 1. Reading Quiz 阅读测验 Are these sentences true or false? Circle the correct answer. 以下句子哪句是真? 哪句是假? 请圈出正确答案 1. It s not possible to recycle plastic. True / False 2. Disposable products are more environmentally friendly. True / False 3. Aeroplanes produce a small amount of carbon emissions. True / False 4. Insulation helps you to save energy in your house. True / False 5. You can collect rain water to use in your garden. True / False 3
2. Opposites 反义词 Do you know the opposite to each of these words? You can find them all in the text. 你知道以下这些单词的反义词吗? 你可以在文章中找到答案 reusable to increase to waste cheap to discourage private 4
3. Collocations 词语搭配 Find a word which goes before and after each of these. 在以下的选择中, 找到可以在已经列出的单词左右空格里都能组成词组的词 For example: 例子 : whisky glass glass jar turbine library wine butt shelf northerly rain bank 1. bottle bottle 2. water water 3. wind wind 4. book book 5
4. Wordsearch 单词搜索 Try to find the words associated with Green Living in the puzzle below. There are ten words to find. Words can be written horizontally (g), vertically (i) or diagonally (m) 请在下面的字谜游戏中, 找出与绿色生活有关的英语单词来 共有 10 个单词, 其组成方式可能以水平的 (g) 垂直的 (i) 或对角的 (m) 形式出现 c a r p e s o l a r l c d d o d u m p h e j k y w u i v b g i m r n a c q u c s t u r b i n e l s c x o p z u e s d r e g a e l y o b t r s o l f r u b b i s h v b p n s b a i g o h a c p l m p o w t u r q z b i a l k n d i s p e w y l n p b t u e t f h e h g e o c e m i s s i o n s f j disposable green dump aeroplane rubbish cycle carbon emissions solar turbine 6
Answers 答案 1. Reading Quiz 阅读测验 Are these sentences true or false? Circle the correct answer. 以下句子哪句是真? 哪句是假? 请圈出正确答案 2. Opposites 反义词 Do you know the opposite to each of these words? You can find them all in the text. 你知道以下这些单词的反义词吗? 你可以在文章中找到答案 1. It s not possible to recycle plastic. False 2. Disposable products are more environmentally friendly. False 3. Aeroplanes produce a small amount of carbon emissions. False 4. Insulation helps you to save energy in your house. True 5. You can collect rain water to use in your garden. True reusable to increase to waste cheap to discourage disposable to reduce to save expensive to encourage private public 3. Collocations 词语搭配 4. Wordsearch 单词搜索 Find a word which goes before and after each of these. 在以下的选择中, 找到可以在已经列出的单词左右空格里都能组成词组的词 1. 2. 3. 4. wine bottle bottle bank rain water water butt northerly wind wind turbine s o l a r c d d u m p y i a c s t u r b i n e l c p r e a o o r u b b i s h p b g a l o r b a n e l n e e e m i s s i o n s library book book shelf 7