Check your eco - intellect! The earth provides everything we need, but how much do you think about it?

Tiếng Anh lớp 8 Unit 4 Vocabulary trang 38, 39 - Friends Plus

1 (trang 38-39 SGK Tiếng Anh 8 Friends plus): Check the meaning of the words in blue in the eco-intellect fact file.(Kiểm tra nghĩa của các từ màu xanh lam trong tệp thông tin về trí tuệ sinh thái.)

Check your eco - intellect!

The earth provides everything we need, but how much do you think about it? Develop your eco - intellect by learning how your actions can affect the world we live in.

A. The UK produces more than (1) _________ million tonnes of rubbish (2) _________. On average, each person in the UK throws away their own weight in rubbish every seven (3) _________.

B. Plastic bags damage the environment and kill marine animals. They pollute our towns and cities. We use each plastic bag for an average of only twelve (4) _________.

C. Recycling one aluminium can save enough energy to power a television for three (5) _________. It takes six weeks to recycle your old drink can into parts of a plane, a car or a now can!

D. We must protect our world. We’re running out of natural resources and destroying rainforests. Twenty - four trees make one tonne of newspaper. A tonne of recycled newspaper saves (6) _______ trees.

E. In some parts of the world, people can’t afford to buy food. In other parts, people buy more than they need. A typical UK family wastes approximately (7) _________ of food every year.

F. Having a shower instead of a bath reduces the amount of water we waste. A toilet made before (8) _________ uses 60% more water than toilets made since then.

Đáp án:

- provide: cung cấp - develop: phát triển - produce: sản sinh ra, sản xuất ra - throw away: vứt đi - damage: phá hủy, hủy hoại - pollute: làm ô nhiễm - use: sử dụng

- save: tiết kiệm - recycle: tái chế - protect: bảo vệ - run out of: cạn kiệt - destroy: hủy hoại - afford: đủ khả năng (để làm gì) - reduce: làm giảm