How do you relax yourself in your daily life?
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How many hours do you sleep every night?
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How often do you exercise?
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What’s your favorite food?
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Trash collection is problem for Curitiba. First, the city has only one landfill. Second, its garbage trucks do not fit on some of the streets in the city's low- income（低收入）neighborhoods. Curitiba knew the solution lay in getting everyone involved（参加）.
In 1989, the city started a recycling program called Garbage That Is Not Garbage. The city set up a central recycling center for sorting（把…分类）recyclable materials, food-based and waste. Colorful cartoon characters were symbols of different kinds of recyclable materials, which could help children get to know the importance of recycling. Collection bins were the same colors as the cartoons, reinforcing（加强） the message. People made money by picking up the trash at these bins and taking it to the center for processing. Today, Curitiba claims to have the highest recycling rate of any city in the world.
Câmbio Verde, the Green Exchange program, and Compra do Lixo, the Buying of Garbage program, are successful recycling programs in Curitiba. They get low-income- residents（居民）to join in the city's recycling program by having them transport trash from neighborhoods that are hard for garbage trucks to reach.
Depending on what they deliver, people exchange their trash for cash, food and services. Their way of life is improved, and the city is better able to manage its trash. These programs are one way Curitiba has gotten creative as a green city. It shows how involving everyone can make green living possible.
Trading in on Trash | ||
Paragraph | Main idea | Supporting details |
One | 1. for Curitiba's trash collection problem | ★There is only one landfill in Curitiba. ★2. cannot reach every corner of the city. |
Two | Actions and influences of Garbage That Is Not Garbage | ★A central recycling center 3. by the government. ★Kids understood the importance of recycling better. ★Curitiba's' recycling rate is pretty high. |
Three | Cmbio Verde's and Compra do Lixo's ways of involving low-income residents | ★They make low-income residents 4. from their neighborhoods to certain places. |
Four | Results of recycling programs and conclusion | ★People's way of life is improved. ★Curitiba can manage its trash better. ★Everyone 5. in making green living possible. |
How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from faraway friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered（递送）? This was how things worked not very long ago. Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed greatly.
Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with our friends. Social media tools（社交媒体工具） let us see what our friends are busy with and maintain friendships.
The digital （数字）age also enables us to find people who share our interests. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.
But when you friend people online, does this mean that they really are your friends? It depends.
If people always exchange true personal information online, then yes, these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to remember that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth about a person. Sometimes smiling photos can hide real problems. On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A young person could be old；a woman could be a man；we could even be sharing our information with criminals.
But this doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. Although technology has changed the way we acquire（获得）friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same. As Aristotle said, no one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other goods.
1.Ways of making friends and communicating with them have changed greatly because of ________.
2.To stay in touch with our faraway friends, we can ________.
3.Online friendships can be real and meaningful if people ________ with each other.
4.The phrase “throw the baby out with the bathwater” means “________” in Chinese.
5.This passage mainly talks about ________ of making friends online.
