effectiveness-歌剧院
任务型专练
(1)
If
your
family
is
like
many
in
the
United
States,
unloading
the
week’s
groceries
includes
hauling a case or two of bottled water
into your home. On your way to a soccer game or
activity,
it’s easy to grab a cold one
right out of the fridge, right
?
But
all
those
plastic
bottles
use
a
lot
of
fossil
fuels
and
pollute
the
environment.
In
fact,
Americans
buy
more
bottled
water
than
any
other
nation
in
the
world,
adding
29
billion
water
bottles
a
year
to
the
problem.
In
order
to
make
all
these
bottles,
manufacturers
use
17
million
barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil
to keep a million cars going for twelve
months.
Imagine
a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with
oil. That’s about how much oil was
needed to produce the bottle.
So
why
don’
t
more
people
drink
water
straight
from
the
kitchen
faucet? Some
people
drink
bottled water because
they think it is better for them than water out of
the tap, but that’s not true.
In
the
United
States,
local
governments
make
sure
water
from
the
faucet
is
safe.
There
is
also
growing concern that
chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into
the water.
People love the
convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they
realized the problems it causes,
they
would
try
drinking
from
a
glass
at
home
or
carrying
water
in
a
refillable
steel
container
instead of plastic.
Plastic
bottle
recycling
can
help
—
instead
of
going
out
with
the
trash,
plastic
bottles
can
be
turned
into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every
six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the
recycling bin. The
rest are sent to
landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on
the land and in rivers, lakes, and
the
ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years
to disintegrate.
Water is
good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about
how often you use water bottles,
and
see if you can make a change.
And
yes,
you
can
make
a
difference.
Remember
this:
Recycling
one
plastic
bottle
can
save
enough energy to power a 60-watt light
bulb for six hours.
Title
(1)
____
situation
(3)
__
for
people’s
preference
for
bottled water
world.
Bottled water is of higher (4)
_____
.
It’s
more
(5)
___
for
people to drink bottled water.
Drinking
Water: Bottled or From the Tap?
Americans
consume
the
(2)
_____
bottled
water
in
the
Problems
with
bottled
The (6)
__ ___
of plastic
bottles use lots of fossil fuels.
water
Water bottles we use cause serious (7)
______ __.
(8)
___
the passage
offers
Use
bottles (9)
___
of glass or steel.
Use a refillable plastic bottle as many
time as (10) ____________
before recycling.
(2)
Many people think a
telephone is a necessity. But I think it is a pest
(
有害的事物
) and a time
waste. Very often you find it
impossible to escape from it. If you have a
telephone in your own
house, you will
admit that it tends to ring when you least want it
to ring; when you are asleep, or in
the
middle of a meal or a conversation or when you are
just going out, or when you are in your
bath.
Are
you
strong-minded
enough
to
ignore
it?
You
are
not.
You
think
there
may
be
some
important news or message for you. I
can assure you that if a message is really
important it will
reach you sooner or
later. Have you ever rushed crippling from the
bath, or chewing from the table,
or
dazed from the bed, only to be told that you are a
wrong number?
But you will say, you
need not have your name printed in the telephone
directory, and you can
have a
telephone which is only usable for
outgoing calls. Besides, you will say, isn’t it
important to
have a telephone in case
of sudden emergency
—
illness,
accident, or fire? Of course, you are right,
but here in a thickly populated country
like England one is seldom far from a telephone in
case of
dreadful necessity.
I think perhaps I had better try to
justify (
证明是有理的
) myself by
trying to prove that what
I
like
is
good.
I
admit
that
in
different
circumstances
—
if
I
were
a
wealthy
and
powerful
businessperson, for
instance, or badly ill and had to lie in bed, I
might find a telephone a necessity.
But
then if I were a taxi-driver I should find a car
as necessity. Let me put it another way: there are
two things for which the English seem
to show particular talent: one is mechanical
invention, the
other literature. My own
business happens to be with the use of words but I
see I must now stop
using
them,
for
I
have
had
just
been
handed a
slip
of
paper
to
say
that
somebody
is
waiting
to
speak
to me on the telephone. I think I had better
answer it. After all, one never knows, it may be
something important.
Title: The (1)
_________________
Many
people
Different (7)
____
about it
It is
(2)
_______
when one wants
to make a call, especially in
time of
(3)
___
.
It can (4)
___
time and even be (5)
______
.
The author
Not
everyone,
(6)
__
a
businessperson
or
a
sick
person
who has to stay in
bed, needs it.
I don’t need it because
my job is writing.
It always
seems to ring when one is doing something else or
doesn’t want it to ring.
_
Almost (9)
___
can ignore it even if they
want to.
One (10)
__
to answer it only to find that he is
misdialed.
(8)
with it