Technology and environmental protection are closely linked. With technology, we can 【小题1】 changes in our environment. This helps us understand the influence of what humans do to nature. Paying attention to this relationship is 【小题2】 for Earth’s future. Today, we have many tools 【小题3】 to help us. We can use these tools to find better ways to protect the environment. Nowadays, we use satellites (卫星) to research pollution levels and decide where to 【小题4】 our cleaning efforts. It’s important to keep using technology to help the environment. By doing so, we can ensure a healthier planet for everyone.

Have your ever heard of the world’s first 3D-printed village? A group called New Story is working with a company called Icon to quickly build lots of houses for poor people who need 【小题1】.The way they build the houses is unusual-it is 3D-printing technology.

Icon created the first 3D-printed house in the United States several years ago. New Story is a group that works to bring cheap but good houses to the poor. The group has 【小题2】 over 2,700 houses in places like Bolivia, El Salvador, Haiti and Mexico.

Icon and New Story have shown two new 3D-printed houses in Mexico. The two small homes are the 【小题3】 in a planned village of 50 3D-printed houses for very poor people in the area.

The houses in Tabasco have two bedrooms, a 【小题4】 room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. Because the houses are created with a computer design, it’s easy to change the design to suit the 【小题5】 of different families. Their printer is a machine called Vulean II. It works 【小题6】. The 46-square-meter homes were built in about 24 hours. New Story and Icon believe that with practice they will learn to make the houses even more quickly, and bring the price of 【小题7】 them down even further-perhaps as low as $3.500.

Many believe that when a country improves its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die out. Many would agree and many would disagree. It is true that technology has【小题1】the world and no one can imagine living without technology in this era. But traditions don’t have to die necessarily.

People 【小题2】 traditional dishes when they go out to eat at restaurants. People decorate their homes in traditional ways. Traditional ways and skills have become an escape point from the problems caused by modern technology.

Many people【小题3】that it is useless to save traditional skills. Why is it useless? Traditional skills keep our culture【小题4】and are the pride of ancestor (祖先)deeds. Traditional ways of living are usually environment-friendly and the base for using modern technology.