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Oh, No!: Bad Facts about our earth * If you throw away 2 aluminum cans, you waste more energy than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) of the world's poorest people use a day. * Making a new can from scratch uses the uses the energy equal to half a can of gasoline. * About one third of what an average American throws out is packaging. * More than 1,000,000,000 (one billion) trees are used to make disposable diapers every year. * In one minute, 50 acres of rainforest are destroyed. * Some rain has a pH of 3 or 4. (which is pretty acidic, considering 7 is neutral, not acidic, and battery acid has a pH of 1). Some fish, such as lake trout and smallmouth bass, have trouble reproducing at a pH of 6, which is only slightly acidic. Some clams and snails can't survive at all. Most crayfish are dead at a pH of 5. You can see how bad this is for the environment. * On average, a person in the US uses energy two times more than a person in Japan or West Germany does, and 50 times more than a person in India. * About 90% of the energy used in lighting a standard (incandescent) light bulb is lost as heat. * Air conditioning uses 10 times more energy than a fan, therefore, it creates 10 times the pollutants. * It takes half the output of the Alaskan pipeline to heat the air that escapes from all the homes in the US during a year. * Cars and pick-up trucks are responsible for about 20% of the carbon dioxide released into the air. * There are about 500 million automobiles on the planet, burning an average of 2 gallons of fuel a day. Each gallon releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide into the air. * About 80% of our trash goes to landfills, 10% is incinerated, and 10% is recycled. * Since there is little oxygen underground, where we bury our garbage, to help bacteria eat the garbage, almost nothing happens to it. Scientists have dug into landfills and found ears of corn still intact after 20 years, and newspapers still readable after 30. * The average American makes about 3.5 pounds of trash a day. * In a year, the average American uses as much wood in the form of paper as the average resident of the developing world burns as fuel. 26 things we can do to help: 1. Turn off lights. 2. Turn off other electric things, like TVs, stereos, and radios when not in use. 3. Use rechargable batteries. 4. Do things manually instead of electrically, like open cans by hand. 5. Use fans instead of air conditioners. 6. In winter, wear a sweater instead of turning up your thermostat. 7. Insulate your home so you won't be cold in winter. 8. Use less hot water. 9. Whenever possible, use a bus or subway, or ride your bike or walk. 10. Try to buy organic fruits and vegetables if you're concerned about pesticides. (Organic food is grown without man-made fertilizers and/or pesticides). 11. Don't waste products made from forest materials. 12. Use recycled paper and/or recycle it. Reuse old papers. 13. Don't buy products that may have been made at the expense of the rainforest. 14. Support products that are harvested from the rainforest but have not cut down trees to get it. 15. Plant trees, espessially if you have cut one down. 16. Get other people to help you in your cause. Make and/or join an organization. 17. Avoid products that are used once, then thrown away. 18. Buy products with little or no packaging. 19. Encourage your grocery store sell environmentally friendly cloth bags for people to use when they shop, or bring your own. 20. REDUCE, REUSE, & RECYCLE. 21. Compost. 22. Buy recycled products. 23. Don't buy pets taken from the wild. 24. If you have a good zoo nearby, (if the animals are healthy and the zoo takes care of them), support it! Espessially if they help breed endangered animals. 25. Don't buy products if animals were killed to make it. 26. Cut up your six-pack rings before throwing them out.

一、 I love my brother I've a brother. He is a good brother. He studies very well and he is very look after me.One day, I was ill.He took me to the hospital.The doctors and the nurses said:"you have a good brother!"I said:"Yes,he is a good brother ."And my brother was shy.Oh,I'm forget to tell you what my brother looks like. He is very tall and thin. His favourest sport is play basketball and he like play the guitar. He play them is very well. I like my big brother.I hope he will happy everyday。二、My hobby is playing basketball. Playing basketball can not only have fun, but also can enhance a constitution.. In addition to playing basketball can also exercise the mind, to help people get a positive mental attitude, positive attitude towards life. The body and mind and the ability to communicate with people are good.People who play basketball often have a bunch of friends of the ball, for introverts, basketball is a very good way to express and vent their emotions。

二）2分钟英语演讲短文-失败是坏事吗？Is Failure a Bad Thing？ Failure is a common thing in our daily life. As students, we sometimes fail to get high scores in our exams. When we play games, we might be beaten by others. And there are times when we fail to do work well. All these failures happen naturally and almost every one of us has such experiences. However, there are different attitudes towards failure. Some people lose heart when they fail; they think the world is at its end. Some people don 39;t take failure seriously but just let it be, while some others learn much from failure, and therefore see the light of hope through failure. In my opinion, what is really important is not failure itself, but what we think of failure and what we do after failure. As long as we don't give up, keeping believing in ourselves, and at the same time learn something from failure, we'll certainly make our mark in the end. So I am never afraid of failure, for I believe that failure is not a bad thing. Rather, “Failure is the mother of success.”

第一篇：Failure is common in our life. It can happen to anybody, but people’s attitudes towards failure differ. Some people become very sad, lose heart and eventually give up while others learn a lesson from every failure, so they get different results.In my opinion, failure is not a bad thing. However, never losing heart after failing is not an easy thing. If you want to be successful, you have to have the right attitude to failure. For example, after you fail in your mathematics exam, you may think you will never study mathematics well, and then, give it up. You should keep studying mathematics hard and you will be a victor in the end.Whether you are a victor or loser, failure is the most important and basic thing you have to face. It is even a required course for you before you become a victor. The difference between victors and losers lies in how they deal with failure.第二篇：Charlie Chaplin was born in London.His moyher was a dancer and his father was an actor. He started singing and danced in 1894.And in 1904 ,He joined a theatre company,he went to America.In 1910 he acted in a film and then went to Hollywood.When he was 24 years old.He died in switzerland at the age of 88 years old.第三篇：Modern life would be unimaginable without telecommunications. Telephone, fax and TV are already household words. New terms like pager, mobile phone and E-mail are entering our daily life at a rapidModern life would be unimaginable without telecommunications. Telephone, fax and TV are already household words. New terms like pager, mobile phone and E-mail are entering our daily life at a rapid pace. Telecommunications have penetrated nearly every aspect of modern life and are fast changing the way we live.第四篇：These days the quick pace of modern life and the fierce competition have forced middle-aged Chinese people to pay more attention to their own work. This leads to more and more teenage students living by themselves.The phenomenon may not be so worrying as it seems, since living alone develops one’s ability to deal with things by themselves and helps them become more responsible for themselves.However, we still have good reasons to argue against the action to leave children alone. First, it will be a disaster for children who haven’t learnt to behave responsibly without supervision. Next, children may feel less love and warmth form their parents, leading to their distrust for others and a lack of communication. It’s also a problem that children would have to arrange their daily life by themselves, and what if they have health problems?Judging from the above, it’s necessary for children to become more independent, but it’s better if parents share more time with their children who are living alone.第五篇：American Blacks are without doubt all of African origin. The first group of 20 Blacks sold to English settlers of Virginia in 1619 were brought in by a Dutch ship. From that time to the mid—19th century, some 14 million blacks were transported from West Africa to Virginia and other southern colonies of the New World. Almost all of them were sold into slavery and subjected to white rule. Not only would they work for their masters as slaves for life but also their descendants would be slaves the moment they were born.The blacks were badly treated.They worked very hard for their white masters but received nothing.They were even not treated as human,and were often cruely whipped if their masters were not satisfied with them.第六篇：Nearly 400 flights were cancelled and the average delay time were up to three hours on Sunday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport due to a heavy storm, authorities said.Heavy rain, high winds and lightning have been pounding Chicago area since Sunday morning. While the worst of the storms have passed, heavy raining prompted flood warning across northern Illinois, where Chicago is located.The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm alert for most of the Chicago area along with flash flood warnings for counties including Lee, DeKalb and LaSalle.There are also delays at Midway International, the other major airport in Chicago area. 第七篇：Everyone has their own thought about their future jobs and lives. However,not all people can keep on their directions.No pain,no gain. I believe there is no better time to start than today with unlimited enthusiasm and insist on you goal.Different people has different dream.A roommate, a neighbor, a professor even a lover-but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect you life especially your dream in some profound way. As it is,I always dream that I set up a coffee house in the most romantic place---the Provence of France after my lecturer ’s introduction of this amazing place. I have determination to attain it.As is known to us money is not everything,but without money ,everything is nothing.So I have to learn how to manage personal finacial problems as each students who has dream.Firstly,as a college students,we don’t have our own stable finacial resources so that we can receive finacial support from our parents.Why don’t we get some extra money? Part-time jobs is the best choose.We can not only have more money to do something useful about realize our dream, but also understand the society in advance . Also,our academic study is the most important. Just remember,don’t use money in doing meaningless things . Furthemore it is always reported that there still exist poverty in some part of china and a number of childen can’t afford their study . How can we waste money which is at the cost of our parent’s hard work? As a result,You had better make a finacial plan and control youself. For example when shopping , we just pay for something valuable.Secondly,after graduated from college, we can make money by ourselves and we have more opportunities to learn about what we have to do and how to reach the goal . A finacial plan is also necessary. To me,in my dream,my coffee house must be as upscale as possible within my reach. So a bugest is very important at that moment and my finacial plan can help me save enough money.Happiness,I have discovered,is nearly always a rebound from hard work.Take action and believe youselves, you can creat your life and make the dream come true if you have a good budget for your life. Let’s start together immediately!That’s all of my speech , thank you for listening.第八篇：Make our school more and more beautifulHello everyone! Today I`ll give you a report about protecting our school environment. Now we are studying in the beautiful school. It`s our duty to keep it clean and tidy. Though the SARS is gone, people know it’s very important to protect our environment. There are always some students harming our school environment. I think this is very foolish. we must make it a rule to do some cleaning. It isn`t good to spit in public places, such as in the library, in the classroom. We should neither draw pictures on the walls nor throw rubbish onto the ground. We shall often water the trees, flowers to make our school greener and greener.We should often write some reports about our environment. So students will know more about our environment and try their best to do something useful for our school. In these ways, our school will be more and more beautiful. The more we do , the healthier we`ll be.Everyday you should ask yourself: Have I thrown any litter on the ground? Have I spat in a public place? Have I harmed flowers? If your answers are “no”, it means that you have already helped protecting our school environment. If everyone makes a contribution to protecting our school environment, our school will become much more beautiful第九篇：没找到合适的第十篇：My View on Following the Fashion Nowadays more and more young people prefer to follow the fashion. On this phenomenon， different people have different views. It is held that one should follow the fashion so as not to be despised or considered eccentric.But it is also held that one should have one's own judgment. Those who hold the first opinion think that society is progressing and one should adapt oneself to the constant change. In their opinion， if everyone always sticks to the old fashion， there won't be any change and naturally there won't be progress. In contrast， those who hold the second view think that one shouldn't follow the fashion without discrimination and one should have one's own judgment and characteristics.As for me， I agree with the latter opinion. Admittedly， one should be flexible and adapt himself to the situation， but this is not to say that one should follow the fashion without discrimination because the fashion may not be beneficial.We should consider whether the fashion is favorable or unfavorable. Moreover， one should have one's own characteristics. If everyone follows the same fashion， there will not be variety and the whole society will be monotonous.