Question

When throwing away rubbish, do you know which bin it should go in? Have you ever noticed the differently-colored rubbish bins on the street? Some of you might not be able to answer the questions. However, it's actually quite important to know how to sort your rubbish. Not knowing how to sort rubbish can make it harder to save energy and protect the environment. If you don't sort your rubbish, all of it will be buried (埋) together. It can take up large areas of ground that could have been used for planting trees. Shanghai is the first city to put rubbish-sorting into practice in China.

Shanghai government has asked all the people who live there to sort rubbish into four groups: wet, recyclable (可回收的), harmful and dry. "Wet" rubbish is also known as "household" rubbish. It is what people produce every day after they eat or drink. "It is the thing you don't want but pigs can eat", Guangzhou Daily explained. Paper, metal, glass and other things that can be reused are recyclable rubbish.

Harmful rubbish includes things like medicine, batteries and so on. Finally, any rubbish that is not wet, recyclable or harmful will go in the dry rubbish bin. Many other Chinese cities, including Changsha, plan to use this method to sort their rubbish. Now that you know this, perhaps you can do your part in protecting the environment.

1.the bins are different colors because they _______.

A.look more beautiful

B.can help people sort waste

C.are made of different materials.

2.according to the passage, if we sort waste, ______.

A.all of the waste can be recycled.

B.there will be less land for the trees.

C.it’s easy for people to recycle some useful parts of the waste

3.Wet waste may be______.

A.the waste water left by people after washing.

B.the waste food left by people after cooking.

C.the waste objects left by people after sweeping.

4.What purpose can we know from the passage?

A.to ask people not to make too much waste.

B.to ask people to buy four kinds of bins at home.

C.to encourage people to sort their waste.

Answer 1