costs.

Recycling is a method to make items reusable.Many things you want to throw out can be made into new products through the reproducing process.Use your imagination to come up with ways on things that you can use again.

Pass the message of simple ways to save the environment on to kids.Starting with kids is a good way of teaching the message early in their lives，in the hope that they can carry it forward as they grow older.

With environmental protection awareness in mind，we can do what we can，for the results are to have a big effect on the planet.As long as we do our part，the world is one small step closer to being saved.

9.In the first paragraph the author uses "steel monsters" to describe_____ .

A．big factoriesB．high mountains

C． huge buildingsD．characters in fairy stories

10.From the fifth paragraph，we can know that ______.

A． protecting the environment begins with small things

B． protecting the environment should start from childhood

C． wonderful life comes from environmental protection

D． protecting the environment benefits the country and the people

11.The passage is mainly about_______ .

A． the use of garbage dustbinsB． how to save water and electricity

C．our current environmental problemsD． how to save the environment

The largest earthquake ( magnitude里氏9. 5) of the 20th century happened on May 22, 1960 off the coast of South Central Chile.

It generated(生成) one of the most destructive(毁坏性的) Pacific-wide tsunamis. Near the generating area, both the earthquake and the tsunami were very much destructive, particularly in the coastal area from Concepcion to the south end of Isla Chiloe. The largest tsunami damage occurred at Isla Chiloe-the coastal area closest to the epicenter(震中). Huge tsunami waves measuring as high as 25 meters arrived within 10 to 15 minutes after the earthquake, killing at least two hundred people, sinking all the boats, and flooding half a kilometer inland.