世界与环境.docVIP

世界与环境?????? Cut the Carbon Footprint??? Everything you do leaves a carbon footprint(碳足迹)．For example，when you travel in a taxi，the car gives off(排放) CO2 into the air．CO2 is a greenhouse gas．Greenhouse gases make the earth become warm．To protect our environment，we need to leave less of a carbon footprint．How big is your carbon footprint? To get an idea，take a look at the following numbers．??? Living areas★ TV sets and DVD players produce 723kg of CO2 a year．★ If you turn them off when youre not using them，you can cut that number by 108kg．??? Laundry room(洗衣房)??? Drying clothes in a dryer produces a lot of CO2．★ If you use your dryer five times per week，you produce 185kg of CO2 per year．★ Dry your clothes in the sun instead．??? Bathroom★ If you take an eight-minute shower every day，you produce 616kg of CO2 a year．★ If you only use six minutes to take a shower，you can cut that number by 154kg a year．??? 根据短文内容，判断正误。正确用“T”表示，错误用“F”表示。???1．CO2 is a greenhouse gas that can make the earth warm．??2．Watching TV and traveling in a taxi can produce little CO2．??3．If we use a dryer five times per week，we produce 154kg of CO2 per year．??4．If we spend less time taking a shower，we can cut the number of CO2．???5．The less of a carbon footprint we leave，the better our environment will become．?????? June 5th is World Environment Day．This makes us pay more attention to our? environment．When Wang Boxuan，a Beijing high schoolboy，uses up his exercise books，he does not throw them away．Each one is kept at his school with hundreds of exercise books that are given by other students．Then they are sold to a Beijing paper making factory．??? The paper is recycled and used again by students and teachers in the school．At the same time，the money that is made from the sales goes to schools in Inner Mongolia(内蒙古)．The government there uses the money to plant more trees and grass．This place is one of the sources(源头) of the sandstorms(沙尘暴) that often attack Beijing during springtime．