2023年中考英语热门话题练习 08 Low-carbon Life

Now too much CO₂ makes the Earth warmer and warmer, and brings bad effect to people. To save our Earth, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.

To live a low-carbon life, we'd better save as much energy as we can. For example, turn off the lights and TV when you don't use them, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes; take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm; don't do the cooking with electricity.

To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Being a vegetarian can help reduce(减少) one and a half ton of carbon dioxide a year, but keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars do in the world.

To live a low-carbon life, we should plant more trees. Trees are very important for us. They can not only produce oxygen for us to breathe and keep the air clean, but also take in the harmful gases from the air. To protect trees we should stop people from cuting down trees and plant as many trees as we can.

If we can keep them a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.

At present, too much carbon dioxide(二氧化碳) makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet, to save ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life(低碳生活) becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.

To live a low-carbon life, we'd better save energy as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don't do the cooking with electricity.

To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don't know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it's really necessary.

To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportation. On the one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It is not only a waste of money but also causes trouble to the earth, because as you know, making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.

There are many other ways to live low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.

Nowadays, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life is spreading to every comer of our country. The concept of“low carbon”means low energy and no waste. It is such an important and meaningful project that I can't wait to present my ideas on how to put it into practices.

In the first place, a no-car day should be set up every week in our school. Because cars not only cause serious air pollution but also waste energy. On a no-car day, neither students nor teachers are allowed to drive to school. Just walk, cycle or run. Use our legs and enjoy the fun.

In the second place, we had better not use plastic bags anymore. No on can stand (忍受) the “white pollution”. So, it is wise to use bags which can be reused for many times.

Finally, one thing that we should keep in mind — every big thing comes from the small thing. Therefore, as students, we ought to turn off the lights when we leave, turn off the tap in time, and reuse our textbooks and so on.

All in all, it is necessary for all of us to put the low-carbon lifestyle in our daily life. Just remember there: no-car day, no plastic bags, and no waste. Let's do it now.

①Walk or drive to work? Which way is lower in carbon(碳)? To be friendly to the environment, you may choose to walk. Have you ever tried to live a low-carbon life through your diet(日常饮食)?

②A new study from the University of Oxford has looked into the health and environmental influences of 15 foods common in western diets. Among these, plant-based(基于植物的) foods included fruits, vegetables, nuts and potatoes. It also studied animal-based foods, including red meat, chicken, milk products, eggs and fish.

③According to the study's lead researcher, Michael Clark, "Choosing better and greener diets is one of the main ways people can improve their health and protect the environment. "That is to say, plant-based diets are much healthier for us and kinder to the environment.

④To get this result, researchers compared the influence of eating another portion(一份)of each food with the increased risk of a few illnesses. They also find out the environmental harm for each animal-based food and each plant-based food.

⑤By using this method, the study found that red meats were the most unfriendly foods to the environment. Keeping farm animals produces a large number of methane(甲烷) that keeps 30 times more heat than CO₂. As well as making the earth warmer, eating too much red meat is known to increase the risk of a few illnesses, such as heart trouble.

⑥Plant-based diets can give us the same health benefits in a much greener way. According to the study, without eating or using meat and milk products, global farmland use could be cut down by more than 75% and still feed the world.

⑦Speaking to the Guardian, Tim Benton of Chatham House said, " If we can give people reasonable official advice of what a healthy and green diet is, the world and its people would be in a much better place. "

It's commonly known that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO₂) causes global warming. The whole world has made great efforts to improve the situation. Especially, the trees planted in China are playing an important role.

A report published in Nature shows that CO₂ absorption (吸收) in two new forest areas in China is more than we thought. The two areas are located in China's southwestern and northeastern provinces. They make up over 35 percent of China's carbon sinks. Carbon sinks are natural systems that absorb and store CO₂ from the air. The main natural carbon sinks are trees and other plants.

According to Paul Palmer, these provinces have been working on rapid forestation (造林) in large areas. Over the past 10 to 15 years, the forest areas have kept increasing by 400-4,400 square kilometers per year.

China is one of the world's biggest countries of human-produced CO₂,   ▲   . In 1978,

China began a national-level forestation project. Many trees have planted in the areas of northern China to act as windbreaks. For example, about one third of the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia is now covered with trees. In 2019, Alipay's Ant Forest program planted 122 million trees and won the UN Champions of the Earth award for helping 500 million people live low-carbon lives.

China's goal is to reach carbon neutrality by 2060. Carbon neutrality refers to removing as much CO₂ as one puts into the air. If China's goal is achieved, it will lower global warming by around 0.2 to 0.3 C alone, according to Climate Action Tracker (CAT).

In China, more and more people have realized the seriousness of climate change.  Zheng Xiyu is one of them. She has been trying to reduce her carbon footprint. Every morning, she takes a bus to her office and it takes her about 40 minutes. But Zheng has been thinking of changing this. Riding a bicycle to work, the lady says, takes about the same amount of time as taking a bus. "However, it's better for the environment and my health. " she says.

Professor Li Lin has also been leading a low-carbon lifestyle. Her office uses energy-saving lights. These lights go off themselves when they are not needed. This has saved a large amount of electricity.   Professor Li says small actions like these are important for protecting the environment.

Lin Hong always chooses products with a longer life when she shops.   Two years ago, Lin and her friends set up an environment website, where she wanted to give some advice on saving energy and protecting the environment.

 Everybody can do this and make a difference.

In China, more and more people have realized the seriousness of climate (气候) change. Many young people have been living a low-carbon (低碳) life.

Zheng Xiyu is one of them. She has been trying to reduce her carbon footprint. Every morning  she takes a bus to her office and it takes her about 40 minutes. But Zheng has been thinking of changing this. She wants to try a different means (方式) of transport—cycling. Riding a bicycle to work, the lady says, takes about the same amount of time as taking a bus. "However, it's better for the environment and my health." she says.

Professor Li Lin has also been leading a low-carbon lifestyle. Her office uses energy-saving lights. These lights go off themselves when they are not needed. This has saved a large amount of electricity. Another way to save energy is to double-print the paper. Professor Li says small actions like these are important for protecting the environment. "Let's say you have saved one ton of paper. That's about two and a half tons of CO₂." Professor Li says.

Lin Hui always chooses products with a longer life when he shops. He says this helps to reduce waste. Two years ago, Lin and his friends set up an environment website, where he wanted to give some advice on saving energy and protecting the environment.

It's easy to change to a low-carbon lifestyle. Everybody can do this and make a difference.

Low-carbon Life

Now more and more people get to know it^'s important to protect our living environment.

要点：1）节约用水、用纸、用电;

2）去超市自备购物袋;

3）不要购买不必要的衣服;

4）不要购买一次性杯子和碗筷;

5）步行或骑自行车上学。

注意：1）80词左右(开头和结尾已给出，不计人总词数);

2）可适当增加细节,使行文连贯。

With the global warming getting worse, more people choose to live a low-carbon life for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gases.

 要求：1）参考表格内容，可适当发挥；

2）语句通顺，意思连贯，书写工整；

3）文中不得出现你的任何真实信息（姓名 校名 地名等）;

4）词数：不少于80词。（开头已给出，但不计入总词数）

How to Live a low-carbon Life

In order to protect the environment, more and more people choose to live a low-carbon life.

提示：

1）每天步行上学；

2）离开房间时会关灯；

3）节约用水，再次利用；

4）充分利用纸张；

5）...

要求：   1）可适当增加细节，以使条理清楚、行文连贯；

2）标点正确，书面整洁。

3）文中不得出现真实姓名和校名；  

4）80词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：

tap 水龙头；再次利用reuse；make full use of 充分利用；plastic bag 塑料袋

My Low-carbon Life

My name is Li Hua.