Exercises for Unit 9, Theme B

I. Complete the sentences with the first

letters given.
1. Health experts advise people to get
rid of those bad living habits for a better
living.
2. To promise our descendants a better
environment, we should find more ways
of saving natural
resources.
3. Sometimes people are easily attracted
(吸引) by the beautiful packaging of the
product
while neglecting ( 忽 略 ) the product
itself.
4. We should encourage restaurants to
cut down the use of disposable
chopsticks for saving
more trees.
5. It is very unnecessary for you to have
spent such a long time talking with him,
for he is
 such a stubborn (固执的) person.
6. You should try your best to avoid
making such kind of mistakes again and
again.
7. Metals and plastic are not
biodegradable because they will not
disappear for hundreds of years.
8. The maps are available at the tourist
information office, so you can get the
maps if
you need to get them.
9. Solar energy is a kind of renewable
form of energy because we always have
it.
10. There is a growing need for organic
foods (有机食品) because people worry
a lot about the
poisonous chemicals left on them when
farmers use fertilizer.

II. Translation.
1. 为了保护环境，我们应该采取行动改
变我们使用能源和自然资源的方式。
To protect the environment, we should
take action to change the way we use
energy and natural resources.
2. 我们应该避免使用一些不可生物降解
的物质。
We must avoid using some non-
biodegradable materials.
3. 许多资源不是可再生的，比如煤和矿
物质总有一天会用光的。
Many resources are not renewable, for
example, coal and minerals will finish
one day.
4. 政府已经找到可替代性方法来制造能
源，这样我们可以避免制造更多环境污
染。
The government has already found
alternative ways of making energy, so
that we can avoid making more
environmental pollution.
5. 当我们在超市购物的时候，我们需要
向我们买的东西附带的包装说不。
When we do shopping in the
supermarkets, we need to say ‘No,
thanks’ to the packaging that comes
with the things we buy.
6. 到 2200 年，世界人口将会涨到 100 亿。
专家预测人们会受到更多环境问题的困
扰，如果人类继续这种能源的使用方式。
By the year 2200, the world population
will grow to ten billion. The experts
predict that if man continues the way of
using energy, people will suffer more
problems for the environment.