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 A Plastic Australia

Did you know Australia uses around four billion plastic check-out bags a year? If you tied all of them together, it would create a chain long enough to go around the world 25 times! And that's only Australia---globally hundreds of billions are used! Only a small number are recycled, so where do the rest end up?

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Environmentalists reckon thousands of birds and marine animals die each year because they swallow the plastic or get caught up in it. In 2000, a whale died on a beach in Queensland---6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy.

    54      But why? What are they made of that makes them so bad?

Well, when fossil fuels like oil and coal are processed, a gas is produced that can be made into polyethylene---which is plastic! It’s turned into all sorts of products.

What’s so bad about it? Well during the process harmful green house gases are emitted. Any polyethylene, or plastic, takes hundreds of years to be destroyed.     55    

So is there an alternative to plastic bags? We haven’t always used them---back in the 60s it was paper bags and boxes. And now reusable and biodegradable bags have been introduced. But some people reckon the biodegradable ones aren't up to the job and they're more expensive to make.

So what's the solution?

Government ministers met recently to talk about it, but no one could agree. South Australia has decided to go it alone and ban the bags from next year. Victoria is going to trial a program where people pay up to 25 cents for each bag. But some people reckon that's not fair because groceries are already expensive. Others reckon it won't work anyway because lazy shoppers will just pay the extra.

It’s a big debate. The Government will hold another meeting in six months. By then we will have used another two billion plastic bags.

A. Green bags may not be the solution to the problem but they are reuseable unlike plastic.

B. Now even if shopping bags make it to dumps they're still bad for the environment.

C. We’ve all seen them clinging to trees, drifting along footpaths and swirling around in oceans.

D. So once plastic bags are made, they hang around for a very long time.

My daughter Alisa was born blind in her right eye and was bullied (欺侮) pretty severely in school. So I quitted my job as a babysitter and then schooled my daughter heart and soul at home.

A year ago a boy of 14 befriended my daughter on Facebook after reading something Alisa wrote about bullying. Today he messaged her and asked if she would like six tickets to a Colorado Rockies baseball game. They have never met in person but she said, “Sure! That would be great.”

Then I received a call from his mother explaining why her son had chosen my daughter. She said he thought my daughter deserved them because of all the good she does in the community. Her son, she explained, had experienced a similar situation and was also home schooled.

What she said is true. Now my daughter Alisa continues to teach groups of girls in trouble in our community how to look within themselves for the positive and how to be their own person.

Everything taken into consideration, we decided to meet the mother and the boy at a local bike shop. After meeting, the boy approached my car and my daughter gave him a hug and thanked him for his generosity. She told him that she had never been to a baseball game and that she was going to take her entire family, including myself, her dad, little sister, her cousin and an aunt who has brain cancer.

We all thanked one another, got in our car, and went our way. As we drove home my daughter opened the envelope. Inside it were the tickets and ＄100 each to buy hot dogs, pay for parking and not have any worries but a great time.

My daughter has always been the giver and now she and our family are the receivers and I can not tell you how incredibly honored we feel to be on the other end. What an incredible young man to have such a kind idea.

1.What did the author once do according to the passage?

A. She was a ticket seller.                                       B. She was a school teacher.

C. She was a babysitter.                                           D. She was a social worker.

2.How did the boy get to know my daughter?

A. They met when buying tickets to a baseball game.

B. They got in touch via the Internet.

C. They became familiar when talking face to face.

D. They went to the same school and met each other.

3.Why did the boy want to offer free tickets to Alisa?

A. Because Alisa is a disabled girl.

B. Because he has a lot money to share.

C. Because Alisa often helps those in trouble.

D. Because he has a similar situation with Alisa.

4.What can we learn about the boy?

A. He is afraid of meeting strangers.                

B. He always bullies smaller children.

C. He is addicted to the internet.                                  

D. He receives education at home.

5.Which of the following best describes the passage?

A. Good is rewarded with good.                           

B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.

C. Two heads are better than one.                       

D. Where there is a will, there is a way.