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备战2023年中考英语阅读话题训练 专题07 垃圾的处理与利用

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日期: 2024-11-26
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If your pencil box is broken, the batteries(电池)in your flashlights run out, or you have some leftover food, how will you deal with these things? You will probably throw them all into one rubbish bin. But actually, we need to sort(分类)all the rubbish separately. If you don't sort your rubbish, all of it will go to a special place where it is buried(埋藏)together. As a result, it willtake upsome fields. Some rubbish will pollute the groundwater. Some rubbish that can be reused will be wasted.

In recent years, some Chinese cities have been working hard on rubbish sorting.

Shanghai has called on all the people living in this city to sort their rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable, harmful and dry. Wet waste is known as household waste. They are things you don't want but pigs can eat. Paper, metal, glass, plastic and other things that can be reused are recyclable waste. Harmful waste includes thins like medicine, batteries. Finally, any waste that is not wet, recyclable or harmful will go to the “dry waste” bin.

Many other Chinese cities are also using this way to sort their rubbish. For example, Deyang has been sorting its rubbish into the same four groups since several years ago. Students in Deyang have already received waste-sorting guidebooks. They have studied these books and known how to sort the rubbish.

China is now improving its waste-sorting efforts. There is still a long way to go. But it's never too late to learn how to sort your rubbish rightly. We should take an active part in it.

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    A new rubbish sorting system (垃圾分类系统) has been put into use in Fangchengyuan Community in Beijing. Local people not only sort their rubbish, but also put QR codes (二维码) on it.

    "When the rubbish is collected and the codes are seen, I will get reward points to exchange for small gifts and even some money," one of the local people told reporters. "It's really creative and encouraging."

    This smart system has been carried out in 350 communities in Beijing. The capital of China has joined a list of cities in the country that take action to support rubbish sorting. For example, Shenzhen and Shanghai have made laws to punish people and organizations for not sorting rubbish correctly.

    China produces quite a lot of rubbish every year. Much of the rubbish is buried (填埋) in soil or burned without being sorted. Landfills (填埋场) take up a lot of land and have a risk of polluting the soil and water nearby. And burning rubbish can produce harmful gases. Through rubbish sorting, we can reduce the use of landfills and air pollution.

    What's more, rubbish sorting saves resources, which could bring economic benefits (经济利益). For example, a ton of waste paper can be reused to make about 850 kg of paper, saving 17 trees and 50 percent of water. Because of the benefits, some countries have developed successful sorting systems.

    Japan has a strict and detailed system. When people throw away a water bottle, the cap, the wrapper (包装纸) and the bottle itself have to go into three different bins. Every year, families receive special rubbish sorting timetables and directions from their local governments. They are advised to follow the timetables and directions when they throw away rubbish.

    In Australia, every family is provided with three rubbish bins—the red lid (盖子) bin for "general waste" like food and plastic bags, the yellow lid bin for "recycling" like steel and glass, and the green lid bin for "green waste" such as grass and leaves. On the streets, the bins are printed with pictures of the things that are allowed inside. It makes recycling quite easy.

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Wang Fengqin, a 61-year-old woman in Beijing, volunteers to sort(分类)rubbish in her livingarea in Beijing Chaoyang District.

At 6: 30 every morning, while half of Beijing is still in sleeping dreams in bed or enjoying a delicious breakfast, Wang rushes through her busiest hours in the day. She gets up, gives her face a quick wash, takes a simple breakfast and rushes to the four rubbish dustbins beside the gate of her living area. There she checks the waste left by her neighbours to make sure it is sorted correctly.

"Sorting rubbish will improve the environment for all of us and it only takes a minute," Wang said. "I want to help my neighbours develop good habits."

As Wang spoke, an old man came by and threw a plastic bag full of rubbish into the dust-bin marked "recyclable".

"Hey, please there are some orange peels(皮)and fish bones in your bag, so they are supposed to be put into the dustbin marked ' kitchen waste ', " Wang told him.

Learning the old man was in a hurry, Wang let him go, opened the bag herself, picked out the kitchen waste and threw it in the right dustbin.

Wang has been doing this every day from 7∶30 a. m. to 9 a. m. and from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. since March 10. She says people usually go downstairs and throw out rubbish at this time.

"Most people had no idea about sorting rubbish at first, but now 90 percent can put rubbish in the correct dustbin," Wang says. However, she plans to keep doing this job until all her neighbours sort correctly.

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