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Five Eco-crimes We Commit Every Day
Ask yourself this: how green am I really You might think you are doing your bit for the environment, but even if you shun bottled water, buy local produce and reuse your plastic bags, chances are that you have some habits that are far more environmentally damaging than you realise.
1. Coffee Take coffee. The average cup of black filter coffee is in fact responsible for 125 grams of CO
2 emissions. Of this, two-thirds comes from production and most of the rest from brewing.
Choosing the instant coffee reduces that figure to around 80 grams. Yet that still means a six-a-day caffeine habit clocks up more than 175 kilograms of CO
2 , each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe--from London to Rome, say. Add milk, and the methane (甲烷) produced by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than a third.
A. production
B. brewing
C. transportation
D. storage
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Five Eco-crimes We Commit Every Day
Ask yourself this: how green am I really You might think you are doing your bit for the environment, but even if you shun bottled water, buy local produce and reuse your plastic bags, chances are that you have some habits that are far more environmentally damaging than you realise.
1. Coffee Take coffee. The average cup of black filter coffee is in fact responsible for 125 grams of CO
2 emissions. Of this, two-thirds comes from production and most of the rest from brewing.
Choosing the instant coffee reduces that figure to around 80 grams. Yet that still means a six-a-day caffeine habit clocks up more than 175 kilograms of CO
2 , each year. That’s the equivalent of a flight across Europe--from London to Rome, say. Add milk, and the methane (甲烷) produced by dairy cows means you increase your coffee’s climate-changing emissions by more than
[填空题]We use language every day and we live in a world of words. Hardly any
moment passes with someone talking, writing or reading. Indeed, 41. ______
languages is most essential to mankind. Our lives increasingly depend
on fast and successful use of language. Strangely enough, we know 42. ______
more about things around us than on ourselves. For example, language 43. ______
is species specific, that is, it is language that differs human from 44. ______
animals. However, we do not know yet how exactly we inquire language 45. ______
and how it is possible for us to perceive through language; nor we 46. ______
understand precise the relationships between language and thought, 47. ______
language and logic, or language and culture; still less, how and when
language started. One reason for this inadequate knowledge of language
is that we, like language users, take too many things
