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 People like to talk about “first”. They like to remember their first love or their first car. But not all firsts are happy 46_________. Few people enjoy the firsts that 47_____________ bad.

One of history’s bad but important firsts was the first car accident. Cars were still young48____________it happened. It 49__________place in New York in May 1896. A man from Massachusetts was 50___________the city in his new car. At that time, bicycle51_____________ were still trying to get used to the new set of wheels on the road. No one was sure who was at fault（过错）. Any way, a bike and the car collided（相撞）. The man on the bike was 52__________. The driver of the car had to stay in prison（监狱） and wait for the hospital report on the bike rider. It was 53__________that the bike rider was not killed.

Three years later, another car accident took place. It was again in New York City. A man named Henry Bliss got off a street car. He was hit by a 54__________car. Again no one was sure just how it happened or who was at fault. The driver of the car was put in prison. Poor Mr. Bliss became the first person 55____________in a car accident.

Nowadays, too much carbon dioxide makes the earth warmer and warmer and causes terrible effect to human beings. To save our planet and ourselves, a new lifestyle called low-carbon life becomes popular. Low carbon means low energy and no waste. It is necessary for everybody to learn to live a low-carbon life.

  To live a low-carbon life, we’d better save energy as much as possible. Turn off the lights and TV whenever they are not needed. If possible, use cold water to wash clothes or dishes. Take a short shower and try to take a cold one when the weather gets warm. Don’t do the cooking with electricity.

  To live a low-carbon life, we should eat less meat. Everybody knows eating too much meat makes people fat and easy to have heart disease, but maybe you don’t know keeping animals for food produces even more carbon dioxide than all the cars in the world, and being a vegetarian (素食主义者) can help reduce one and a half tons of carbon dioxide a year. Maybe it is a little difficult, but it’s really necessary.

  To live a low-carbon life, we are supposed to do less shopping. When we go shopping, we may drive a car or take other transportations (交通工具). On one hand, these machines pollute the air and waste energy. On the other hand, most of us always buy some useless things because of some advertisements. It not only waste money but also causes trouble to the earth, because making everything will produce carbon dioxide more or less.

  There are many other ways to live a low-carbon life, such as recycling things, planting trees and reusing textbooks. If we can keep it a habit in our daily life, the earth will become a safer planet for us to live on.

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