Let’s say you are taking a walk along the road and you happen to see one or two waste bottles lying on the grass beside the road. What would you do?

You may have different choices. Firstly, you can leave the bottles there as they are. It was not you who threw them away. Why should you do something about it? This is quite OK. Secondly, you can pick them up and throw them into a dustbin (垃圾箱). By doing this, you have walked a step further to help make our home clean. This action is a better choice (选择). Thirdly, you might want to pick them up and give them to an old man or woman who collects waste for a living. If this is your choice, you have walked even further. You’re not only thinking about doing something for the environment, you’re also developing yourself to be a person who is kind to others.

As for young kids, they may always have such a question: “When do I grow up?” Yes! When does a child grow up? And how can a kid know he or she has grown up? These are interesting questions. As for us, middle school students, we’re no longer younger children. We should know whether or not we have grown up. When we start to have a sense of offering (提供) a helping hand for a cleaner city and greener world, and when we have a loving heart to think more of others than of ourselves and are ready to help them, we can say that we have grown up.

Remember: If we help others, others will help us. If we do our best for nature, our environment will have a great change.

The writer starts the passage by giving an example of daily life. When you see some 【小题1】 bottles on the grass beside the road, you have three choices to deal with them. If you 【小题2】 them up and give them to someone else, it means you treat others with 【小题3】. As for young kids, when we start to make our city 【小题4】, it means that we have grown up. If we do our best for nature, our environment will change 【小题5】.

Animal United is a 3D German cartoon. It is a story about animals that get together to find water. Along their journey, lots of funny things happen, and of course, they have a lot of adventures.

The animals in the grasslands in Africa are waiting for the coming flood. However, this years flood seems to come later than that in other years. The animals become worried. At the same time, some animals from other places come to the grasslands to look for peace. However, the situation seems worse because the water is becoming less and less. So they decide to look for the river.

Finally, they find the reason why they don’t have any water to drink. A dam (拦河坝) has been set up so that humans can have a better life. After a long fight with humans, they let the world know that animals are in danger.

This film is about environmental matters. The humans are bad and the animals are good. This film is to give humans a warning. Humans should know that animals also belong to the world.

[1]Do you want to go out for a picnic on a sunny day? 你怎样能够进行一次保护环境的“绿色”旅行？ Walk, bike, take the subway ... or maybe drive a solar-powered (以太阳能为动力的) car!

[2]A team of 22 Dutch university students has created a solar-powered car ①        Stella Vita. Last October, they completed the car’s first road trip. The 2,800-kilometer trip was powered only by the sun.

[3]Stella Vita is a two-passenger (双乘的) car ②        a kitchen, a sitting area, a bed, a shower and a toilet. There are solar panels (板) on the top of the car. And the solar panels can spread out when the car is parked.

[4]On sunny days, Stella Vita can travel up to 720 kilometers with a top speed of 120 kilometers an hour. The energy it gets from the sun can also be ③        for other things. People can cook, take a shower and watch TV in the car. On cloudy days, the car still gets 60% to 70% of the energy it does on sunny days. How can the car keep going at night? Well, it has a large battery (电池) that can store energy. This allows the car to travel up to 600 kilometers at night.

[5]Stella Vita isn’t the Dutch team’s first solar car. Since it was set up ten years ago, the team has created different types of solar cars. The team members are working to introduce this green way of traveling. Let’s hope that in the future, we can all travel “by” the sun!