It is reported that some developed counties have shipped broken parts of computes to China.Such a thing can be founded every day although it is against international laws. Last month Hong Kong officers found 131,000 kilograms of broken computers, TVs and phones send from Japan.
Things like these are called electronic waste, or e-waste. Dealing with is not an easy job because dangerous poison like mercury(汞)and lead (铅)can be found in them. Every time an old computer breaks down, it needs to be deal with safely. But at present, broken computer parts are usually buried. It may be hundreds of years before they are really goes in the earth.
Many places in China are polluted by e-waste. Guiyu in Guangdong province is one of them. This town is named as”the e-waste capital of the world”. It has to deal with 1.5mllion kilograms of e-waste each year, from which it makes 75 million years. But it comes at a cost. Many of the poison in e-waste find their way into the environment. Plastic is burned outdoors and chemical water is poured into rivers, Greenpeace, an environmental group, has found the air, the earth and the rivers in Guiyu badly polluted.
The Chinese government wants the country to develop, but in a way that doesn;t do harm to the environment and people’s life. This year,China presents a new protection law, the strictest one we have ever had. Computer complies like Lenovo and Dell will be asked to take back their old computers. This is because the complies that make computers know best to deal with them safely. Hopefully, the problem with e-waste will be solved in near future.
1.The e-waste found in Hong Kong last month was from________.
A.France B.Japan C.Germany D. Australia
2.The underlined word buried probably means ______in the passage.
A.焚烧 B.障碍 C.回收 D.掩埋
3.The town of Guiya in Guangdong Province_________.
A.is the e-capital of the world B.has serious e-waste pollution
C. Deals with e-waste safely D.speeds much money on e-waste
4.This year,the Chinese government__________.
A.tried to change people’s life
B.closed some computer complies
C.make a new environment protection law
D.asked people to hand in their old computers
5.The passage is mainly about________.
A.the way in deal with e-waste B.the cost of burning e-waste
C.the e-waste problem in China D.the need to pass a law against e-waste