It’s our hope that the calculator will promote action, awareness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help stop global warming.
There are many simple things you can do in your daily life—what you eat, what you drive, how you build your home—that can have an effect on your immediate surroundings, and on places as far away as Antarctica. Here is a list of things that you can do to make a difference.
Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with pact fluorescent bulbs. Save 300lbs (pounds) of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.
Use Recycled Paper
Make sure your printer paper is 100% post consumer recycled paper. Save 5lbs of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
Take Shorter Showers
Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.
Buy Products Locally
Buy locally and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your home.
Carpool When You Can
Own a big vehicle？Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.
Don’t Idle in Your Car
Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions. Except when in traffic, turn your engine off in you must wait for more than 30 seconds.
Buy Organic food
The chemicals used in modern agriculture pollute the water supply, and require energy to produce.
Turn Off Your Computer
Shut off your puter when not in use, and save 200 lbs of carbon dioxide. Conserve energy by using your puter’s “sleep mode” instead of a screensaver.
With a Stop Global Warming calculator which costs you only $50 in hand, you will find what you do does count.
【小题1】 The Stop Global Warming calculator can serve the following purposes EXCEPT .A．introducing the ways of saving carbon dioxideB．Telling how to save money in your daily lifeC．promoting action, awareness and empowerment and helping stop global warmingD．introducing how global warming is formed【小题2】 How many tips are related to cars? .A．1B．2C．3D．4【小题3】 Which of the following is NOT true according to the list of tips? .A．Using a screensaver instead of the puter’s “sleep mode”B．Buying products in the neighborhood C．Using recycled printer paperD．Replacing frequently used light bulbs with pact fluorescent bulbs【小题4】What does the underlined word “carpooling” mean according to the passage? .A．Changing your big vehicle into a small one with your friends and co-workers
to save fuelB．Going to the pool with your friends and co-workers by carC．Trying to share a big vehicle with your friends to save fuelD．Washing the car in a pool by yourself instead of having it washed by yourfriends and co-workers
【小题5】 What is the purpose of the author writing this passage? .A．Giving people tips on how to save money in lifeB．Telling people how to be environment-friendlyC．Promoting the product “Stop Global Warming calculator”D．Telling people how to prevent carbon dioxide from being releasedD
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(答案→)D
解析：
【小题1】排除题，从文章第一段可以排除A、B、C，只有D正确。
【小题2】从这两段Carpool When You Can ，Don’t Idle in Your Car看出和骑车有关的措施有两个。所以选B。
【小题3】排除题：B项是在Buy Products Locally出现的。C项是在Use Recycled Paper找到的。D项Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs出现的。所以选:A
【小题4】猜词题：从Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.看出是和朋友，同事拼车。C正确。
【小题5】主旨题：根据第一段内容：The Stop Global Warming calculator shows you how much carbon dioxide you can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much money you can save by making some small changes in your daily life.和全篇文章，可知选C。