北师大版初中英语八年级上册Unit 5 Helping Getting Ready & Lesson 13 Helping Your Community（第一课时）

I often the lights I leave my room.

it's easier than I thought.

—OK, Mum. I'll do it right away.

—OK. I will.

— Not yet.

— Differences? Oh, no. They look quite ________.

— Great! But mine isn't (finish).

    One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a hat by his feet and a sign that read, "I am blind. Please help me.

    A creative publicist(广告员)named Tom was walking by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat. Without asking for permission, he took the sign, turned it around and wrote a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

    Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized (识别)his footsteps and asked if it was he who had changed his sign. He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it.

    The publicist said, "I just wrote the message a little differently." He smiled and went on his way.

    The new sign read, "Spring has come, but I can't see anything."

    One day Mrs Wilson went shopping with Tracy and Ben. They went to the supermarket in the new shopping centre.

    "Why do you buy things here?" Tracy wanted to know. "Because they are cheaper here than at the corner store near our home." Mrs Wilson said, "Help me check the prices, please."

    The Wilsons were not rich and Mrs Wilson was always careful with her money. She looked carefully at the prices of things. She bought lots of things in the supermarket.

    When they got home, the children said, "We don't think you saved money by going to the supermarket."

    "Of course did," Mrs Wilson said. "Everything was cheaper there."

    "We know," The children said. "But we came home by taxi because we had too much to carry. The taxi fare was more than the money that you saved!"

    Mrs Wilson added everything up. Her children were right.

    "We done," She said. "Next time we'll do the shopping nearby."

    World Environment Day is on June 5th every year in the world. It makes people realise the problems of our earth. From June 5th to 16th of 1972, the UN had a meeting in the capital of Sweden(瑞典)-Stockholm. This was the first meeting to study how to protect the environment.

    We have only one earth, so everyone should do some- thing to protect our earth. We should try to do the 3Rs every day-reduce(减少), reuse and recycle. We should buy things without lots of packaging(包装), Use many things in our neighbourhood-we don't have to travel very far and so we can reduce pollution. Recycle all the things you use. Carry reusable bag for shopping.

    At home, we should try to save water and electricity every day. When we go out, we'd better walk, ride bikes or take a bus. Try to plant more trees and use less paper to protect the forests on the earth. And we should see every day as World Environment Day and try to do anything to help our environment.