“We all have suffered(遭受) from air pollution. If we don’t call for an end to firecrackers(鞭炮), the environment will get worse and worse in the future.” said Zhang Wei. He put up a notice in his neighborhood. In the notice, he called on more people to set off fewer firecrackers during this year’s Spring Festival.①

Lots of parents agreed with Zhang Wei. (A) They said that they hated the noise of firecrackers. The noise often woke up their babies easily. And the babies really needed a (B) ________ place to have enough sleep.

More Chinese are looking forward to celebrating the holiday in greener ways. ②Many people decide not to set off firecrackers and they decide not to waste food. They think that the new ways are fashionable. “My family didn’t buy firecrackers this year. (C) ________, we gave the money away to a charity. It’s good for the environment and the charity.” the Internet user “Fighter” wrote on the Blog.

In my opinion, it’s very important for us to celebrate our traditional festival—the Spring Festival. But it’s more important to reduce air pollution and protect our environment. ③We need more people like Zhang Wei or “Fighter” who uses electronic ways like QQ, WeChat or Blog to spread the ideas of environmental protection. I believe more and more people will join them and our environment will get better and better.

Rachel Carson was born in the USA on May, 1907. Her mother, Maria Carson, was a school teacher. She also loved nature. She showed Rachel the beauty of nature. She also taught Rachel a deep love for books. As a quiet child, Rachel liked to read and write stories and she wanted to be a writer someday. Her story was put in a children's magazine when she was ten years old.

Her first book, Under the Sea Wind came out in 1911. In 1948, Miss Carson began working on another book The Sea Around Us. She collected information from more than one thousand places to write The Sea Around Us. When the book came out in 1951. It won the National Book Award. The Sea Around Us made Rachel Carson famous.

Rachel Carson's most famous book, Silent Spring came out in 1962. In this book, she told people that the use of some kinds of pesticides (杀虫剂) like DDT would cause the number of birds to decline (下降) because it would kill them as well. Finally, in November 1969, the United States government decided that the use of DDT must stop in two years.

As a great environmentalist (环保主义者) and writer. Rachel Carson will be remembered in the world.

Since the outbreak（爆发）of the pandemic（疫情）, it has made its way around the world.

It has a strong influence on our daily life. People have found a way to protect themselves by wearing face masks（口罩）. We must wear masks anywhere in public. But the masks are one-time items. This means that we need to discard them after one or two uses. The world has seen wasted masks strewn（散布在）all over the streets and filling up garbage bins（垃圾箱）.

Experts have pointed out that the materials used in masks are difficult to degrade（降解）. It will take at least 100 years for them to degrade naturally. Environmentalists become quite worried because a countless number of wasted masks have ended up in the sea! They are polluting the sea! The sea animals suffer（遭受）a lot and so do we humans. If the sea animals eat them by mistake, the rubbish will be hard to digest（消化）and stay in their stomachs forever. The bacteria on the masks may kill them too. They will not only largely influence the ecological balance（生态平衡）of the sea, but also can spread some more dangerous illnesses. People will also leave these harmful things in their own bodies and may become ill when eating these sea animals.

In general, the harm of wasted masks to the sea is serious, so we must take action to stop it right now. We should leave them in a safe place and find a wise way to recycle them. Let’s work together to protect the environment.