The Stop Global Warming calculator shows you how much carbon dioxide you

can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much money you can save by making some small changes in your daily life. It’s our hope that the calculator will promote action, awareness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help stop global warming.

There are many simple things you can do in your daily life—what you eat, what you drive, how you build your home—that can have an effect on your immediate surroundings, and on places as far away as Antarctica. Here is a list of things that you can do to make a difference.

Use Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. Save 300lbs (pounds) of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.

Use Recycled Paper

Make sure your printer paper is 100% post consumer recycled paper. Save 5lbs of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.

Take Shorter Showers

Showers account for 2/3 of all water heating costs. Save 350 lbs of carbon dioxide and $99 per year.

Buy Products Locally

Buy locally and reduce the amount of energy required to drive your products to your home.

Carpool When You Can

Own a big vehicle？Carpooling with friends and co-workers saves fuel. Save 790 lbs of carbon dioxide and hundreds of dollars per year.

Don’t Idle in Your Car

Idling wastes money and gas, and generates pollution and global warming causing emissions. Except when in traffic, turn your engine off in you must wait for more than 30 seconds.

Buy Organic food

The chemicals used in modern agriculture pollute the water supply, and require energy to produce.

Turn Off Your Computer

Shut off your computer when not in use, and save 200 lbs of carbon dioxide. Conserve energy by using your computer’s “sleep mode” instead of a screensaver.

With a Stop Global Warming calculator which costs you only $50 in hand, you will find what you do does count.

1. The Stop Global Warming calculator can serve the following purposes EXCEPT __________.

A．introducing the ways of saving carbon dioxide

B．Telling how to save money in your daily life

C．promoting action, awareness and empowerment and helping stop global warming

D．introducing how global warming is formed

2. How many tips are related to cars?__________.

A．1

B．2

C．3

D．4

3. Which of the following is NOT true according to the list of tips? ___________.

A．Using a screensaver instead of the computer’s “sleep mode”

B．Buying products in the neighborhood

C．Using recycled printer paper

D．Replacing frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs

4.What does the underlined word “carpooling” mean according to the passage?____.

A．Changing your big vehicle into a small one with your friends and co-workers

to save fuel

B．Going to the pool with your friends and co-workers by car

C．Trying to share a big vehicle with your friends to save fuel

D．Washing the car in a pool by yourself instead of having it washed by your

friends and co-workers

5.  What is the purpose of the author writing this passage?___________.

A．Giving people tips on how to save money in life

B．Telling people how to be environment-friendly

C．Promoting the product “Stop Global Warming calculator”

D．Telling people how to prevent carbon dioxide from being released

 

【答案】

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.C

5.C

【解析】略

 

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