Coca-Cola, which reportedly produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, announced Thursday it wants to “help fix the world’s plastic waste problem one community (社区) at a time.”
The soda giant is doing so by providing $ 5.4 million for recycling programs in cities like Atlanta, Boston, Denver and Houston. In these cities, partners, like The Green Blue Institute and The Recycling Partnership, which receive the money, will work together to improve recycling rates.
“We focus on areas where we have the ability to make the biggest influence on communities through the funding and expert skills of Coca-Cola employees,” Carlos Pagoagoa, Coca-Cola’s group director of community partnerships, said in a statement. “In each city, local partners will work together to identify barriers to recycling on a local level and test a range of solutions,” he added. “We hope the learnings from these ‘model markets’ can offer solutions to other cities facing similar challenges.”
As part of the effort, The Recycling Partnership and the city of Atlanta, where the cola company’s headquarters are based, will send street teams out to open recycling carts and leave citizens cards informing them what they can and can’t recycle, and let them know how their efforts work.
“Two of the most urgent problems with recycling in the U. S. today are lack of access, followed by pollution in recycling,” Keefe Harrison, CEO of The Recycling Partnership, said in a statement. “We know from the success of Atlanta in 2017 that the citizens want to recycle, and that communicating with them in the street works.”
Last year, Coca-Cola announced its task to collect and reuse a bottle or can for each one it sells, and increase the amount of its products out of recycled materials to 50% by 2030. The brand also aims to make all its packaging fully recyclable by 2025.
1.What does Coca-Cola company intend to do in the program?
A.Produce less packaging.
B.Help deal with plastic waste.
C.Pick up waste in communities.
D.Build a plant to recycle plastic waste.
2.What’s Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A.How Coca-Cola conducts its program.
B.What organizations participate in the program.
C.How Coca-Cola chooses cities for the program.
D.What the local people do in Coca-Cola’s program.
3.What do street teams do to help?
A.Sort out various waste in the city.
B.Look into the cause of pollution.
C.Instruct local people what to recycle.
D.Hand cards to the locals in person.
4.What does Keefe Harrison think of the program?
A.Promising. B.Difficult. C.Pioneering. D.Costly.
The skin under the eyes is delicate, which is why it sometimes appears sunken and has darker coloring than elsewhere on the face. Aging and health problems play a role in sunken eyes but other factors can contribute too, so it may affect younger people as well.
Dehydration
The most common cause of sunken eyes is dehydration, or not having enough water in the body. Consuming too much coffee, soda, and prepackaged drinks may increase production of urine, which may lead to dehydration.
Vitamin shortages
Shortages of vitamin C, vitamin K, and iron can cause eyes to become sunken. Vitamin C helps with absorbing iron and decreasing bruising, while vitamin K is responsible for blood thickening, the lack of which may cause unhealthy skin. Easy bruising and unhealthy skin will result in sunken eyes.
Weight loss
Most people tend to lose weight in their face first. Sometimes, the weight loss is sudden enough to make blood vessels below the eyes easy to see, and the skin clear, producing the appearance of sunken eyes. Sudden weight loss may also cause nutritional shortages, which can lead to sunken eyes.
Not enough sleep or poor-quality sleep can cause sunken eyes and a person’s DNA or the habit of smoking can also contribute to sunken eyes. Most cases of sunken eyes relate to the quality of an individual’s nutrition and healthy living. When these causes are corrected, sunken eyes can be resolved without further treatment. This means that causes can be avoided or treated in good time to prevent the recurrence of sunken eyes.
1.What can we do to prevent dehydration according to the text?
A.Have certain drinks less. B.Refuse coffee.
C.Drink more water. D.Say no to soft drinks.
2.What will lead to bruising below the eyes?
A.Lack of vitamin K. B.Water shortages.
C.Lack of vitamin C. D.Nutritional shortages.
3.Which of the following should be avoided for people losing weight?
A.Pale faces. B.Sudden weight loss.
C.Clean skin. D.Narrow blood vessels.
假设你是李华，你校外事处招募暑假“志愿家庭”，接待来你市参观访问的美国中学生代表。请用英文写份承接申请，内容包括；
1.介绍家庭成员及居住、交通条件；
2.说明英语交流沟通水平；
3.安排美国朋友参加的家庭活动。
注意：1.词数不少于100
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Sir,
I sincerely hope that my family can have the honor to be a host family.
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（Λ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删减：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
It was a Sunday afternoon. My parents and I were watching TV excited when suddenly I spotted the pigeon on the balcony. It was a white pigeon with a ring around one of its foot. It rested there quietly, refuse to fly away. Realizing it must have been lost its way back home, I managed call the Pigeon Association up for help. In the same time, my parents brought the pigeon inside and gave it some bird food, what helped refresh it. Before long, the owner got the message but came to take the pigeon back. He thanked us a lot. My parents and I both felt happy for what we had done.
单词拼写
1.We found those facts were i_________(有影响的) in solving the problem.
2.In the past few years, man has gone through all kinds of natural d________(灾难).
3.The new cinema is l_______(位于) in one of the liveliest districts.
4.Two million people in the city live in p________ (贫穷).
5.No e______(证据) has proved that eating too much is the main cause of the weight problem.
6.Many people went to the southern parts of China to make their f________(财富).
7.N_____(自然地), you will feel a little nervous when you first perform for the public.
8.Not having finished his homework, he was f_______(禁止) to watch TV.
9.The difficulty which we had c_______ (交流) with the local people has now been removed.
10.John received an i________ (邀请) to dinner, and with his work finished, he gladly accepted it.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Recently 1.Internet slang word Foxi, or "Buddhist", has become popular, encouraging young people to remain calm and peaceful and avoid conflict as much as possible, 2.other words, to live like a Buddha.
The phrase 3.(create) in Japan in 2014 to describe young men who no longer bother to follow someone else’s life path. They prefer to stay in their own world without 4.(disturb) and care little about passion and success.
Now, Chinese Internet users 5.(pair) the phrase with other words to describe a similar mindset. For example, "Buddhist students" are those 6.study just the right amount — they don’t cut class, but they don’t burn the midnight oil, either. However, some are worried about it, for they say that Foxi actually reflects the 7.(real) that young people are losing their will 8.(fight). They are pretending to keep a healthy and wise attitude toward failure 9.(simple) because they’re incapable of succeeding.
But no matter what, there is one thing that "Buddhist youngsters" should keep in mind: you may want to keep a calm mindset regarding failure, 10.you should also be passionate and positive about school, work and life.
