朝阳中考一模英语试题

Cling...Cling...Clank. From inside my apartment, I winced(皱起眉头)at the noise my parents were making as they sorted bottles and cans out on the balcony(阳台).I called to my mother in Chinese, “Hoe many do you have this time?” “Eight hundred and six pieces, that's ＄40.30!”she answered. I'd been living in my Los Angeles apartment for over four years when my parents came for a six-month visit from China. I'd seldom notices that the plastic bottles and cans they'd collected on the road were worth5 cents each. When their stay with us ended, I felt free, though i was strong for environmental education in fact. By the time my daughter began school I was expected to raise money for the school. I felt heavy pressure(压力)。 How could I work out the problem? That's when it hit me: how about uniting(结合) the two---environmental education and raising money? I joined an organization called LACES. It had more than 1,600 students, parents and teachers. If my elderly parents could raise＄300 in six months from recycling, why couldn't we multiply(乘以) that number by at least 800? My team organized a day for students and parents to bring bottles and cans directly to school. We called it Green for Green Drive. The first one raised only＄145.But we planned more drives. With each one, the number started to look higher:＄145... ＄400... ＄481. The more success we had, the more people joined our team. Today, LACES teachers keep boxes in their classroom for bottles and cans. Students collect recyclables and store them in boxes. Parents collect at their offices. LACES parents have told me that where they uses to see litter, they see money. Since LACES Green program started in 2011, we have raised ＄15.500 for school and recycled about 75,000 pounds of water. I believe that our effort is followed by the others in the community, an