Green Christmas ideas | |
Ideas | Supportive details |
Reduce the use of the lights used for home (1) | Use eco-friendly lights that use up less energy to (2) _____ electricity. |
Reuse the wrapping paper, as (3) as baubles and trinkets. | ● Make full use of the items used (4) . ● Make the baubles by yourself. |
Recycle all those (5) ___ trinkets. | Send out Christmas cards made from recycled paper, which can be (6) ____ from many charities. |
Make Christmas gifts on your (7) ____ | Make gifts for Christmas at home (8)____ than buy them from shops. |
Have meals at home. | ● Cook a meal at home and prepare the (9) dishes of your family and friends you will invite. ● Involve your family and friends in planning the menu and cooking the meal to (10) your relationship further. |
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I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won"t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods. The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity"s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children"s books, all 10 or 20 pence each. Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don"t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open. The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than £110 million a year, funding(资助)medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment. | |
1. The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _______. | |
A. its convenient location B. its great variety of goods C. its spirit of goodwill D. its nice shopping environment | |
2. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to ____. | |
A. sell cheap products B. deal with unwanted things C. raise money for patients D. help a foreign country | |
3. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops? | |
A. The operating costs are very low. B. The staff are usually well paid. C. 90% of the donations are second-hand. D. They are open twenty-four hours a day. | |
4. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage? | |
A. What to Buy a Charity Shops. B. Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development. C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate. D. The Public"s Concern about Charity Shops. | |
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Two Christmas traditions have come under attack in recent years from environmentalists: Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Paper cards are seen as wasteful and, for some people, going card free is another way of going green. They also argue that in a world of e-mail, Skype, Facebook and Twitter, people are in touch all the time anyway; they no longer need the yearly card that connects them with long lost friends. If you want to send Christmas greetings, there are free e-cards, which get the job done with no postage or wasted paper. However, especially for people who didn"t grow up with e-mail, there is something missing from a Christmas e-mail. The first Christmas cards appeared in London in 1843 and were designed by the same man who had introduced the world"s first postage stamp three years earlier. His name was Sir Henry Cole. They rose in popularity throughout the 20th century. Many people sent cards that were sold for charity.The most famous of these are the ones sold for UNICEF. In the UK this year, in the three weeks before Christmas, the post office expects to handle 100 million cards every day. Environmental awareness also means that nowadays many people recycle their cards; this helps raise money to plant more trees, as well as recreating more paper. When we think of trees at Christmas, there is one that immediately springs to mind-the evergreen tree that people decorate with ornaments and place their presents under. The custom dates back almost a thousand years to Germany, Nowadays 33 to 36 million Christmas trees are produced in America and 50 to 60 million in Europe each year. Some trees are sold live with roots and soil so people can plant them later and reuse them next year. Some people prefer artificial trees as they are reusable and much cheaper than their natural alternative. However, environmentalists point out that they are made from petroleum products and they have much pollution. | |
1. What is the main idea of the article? | |
A. To analyze how two Christmas traditions grew in popularity. B. To introduce the history of two typical Christmas traditions. C. To point out the problems in some traditional ways of celebrating Christmas, D. To explain the debate environmentalists and traditionalists about Christmas traditions. | |
2 Some people suggest getting rid of paper cards because ______. a. they cannot be recycled and reused b. they are not environmentally friendly c. they are mostly sold for charity d. free e-cards have many advantages over them e. they are not as necessary as they used to be for people | |
A. a, b, d B. a, c, d C. b, d, e D. b, c, e | |
3 What can we conclude from the article? | |
A. This year has seen a dramatic drop in Christmas card sales and products. B. The first Christmas cards were designed three years earlier than the stamps. C. Environmentalists advise people to buy cards that are sold for charity to help raise money D. Growing environmental awareness is encouraging people to begin to recycle their cards. | |
4 Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article? | |
A. Some people prefer to buy live trees that can be reused next year. B. Artificial trees are much better than natural ones in all aspects. C. The custom of decorating Christmas trees first appeared in Britain. D. There is a wider Christmas tree market in America than in Europe. |