河北加拿大版初中英语--Lesson 62

Lesson 62:
[00:03.68]Take Short Showers!My name's Georgia.
[00:09.53]Do you worry about pollution?I don't worry about it too much.
[00:16.40]I live in Edmonton.Edmonton's a city in Canada.
[00:22.57]It's a clean city.People don't throw their garbage on the ground.
[00:29.13]The air and water are clean in Edmonton,too.
[00:33.99]Edmonton's clean,but I think we waste things.
[00:39.76]What do we waste the most?
[00:43.91]I think we waste paper the most.
[00:48.95]People waste water,too.
[00:52.82]I try not to waste water.I take short showers.
[00:58.88]I shower for five minutes.Not like my sister!
[01:05.12]She showers for thirty minutes!
[01:09.98]Do we recycle at home?Yes!We sort¹ our pop cans and cardboard².
[01:17.84]A truck picks up the cans and cardboard every week.
[01:23.59]Then the cans and cardboard get made into new things.
[01:29.23]We reuse³ our plastic bags,too.We put other garbage in our plastic bags.
[01:37.28]I think cars and big factories make the most pollution.
[01:43.52]There are too many cars.
[01:47.36]I think more people should ride bikes.
[01:51.91]I ride my bike to school.A bike doesn't make any pollution.
[01:58.75]It makes the least pollution of all types of transportation⁴.
[02:04.92]Buses make some pollution,but lots of people can travel on a bus.
[02:11.89]Buses make less pollution than cars.
 

1 sort   

v.排序，挑选，分拣；n.种类，类别，性质，程度

参考例句：

• She was a strange sort of person.她这个人有些古怪。
• I don't much care for that sort of man.我不太喜欢那种人。

2 cardboard   

n.硬纸板，卡纸板

参考例句：

• She brought the shopping home in a cardboard box.她将买的东西放在纸箱里带回家。
• There is a sheet of stiff cardboard in the drawer.在那个抽屉里有块硬纸板。

3 reuse   

v.再使用；vt.重新使用

参考例句：

• There are some ways to reuse the wastes.有很多废品再利用的方法。
• The use and reuse of urban land.城市土地利用与再利用。

4 transportation   

n.运输，运输系统，运输工具

参考例句：

• The transportation of goods by air costs a lot.航空运输货物花费很高。
• He finally solved the difficulty of transportation.他终于解决了运输的困难。