Cut the Carbon Footprint
Everything you do leaves a "carbon footprint" (碳足迹). For example, when
you travel in a taxi, the car gives off CO2 into the air.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases make the earth become warm.
To protect our environment, we need to leave less of a "carbon footprint". How
big is your carbon footprint To get an idea, take a look at the following
numbers.
Living areas ★ TV sets and DVD players
produce 723kg of CO2 a year. ★ If you turn them off
when you’re not using them, you can cut that number by 108kg.
Laundry room (洗衣房) Drying clothes in a dryer produces a lot of
CO2. ★ If you use your dryer five times per week,
you produce 185 kg of CO2 per year. ★ Dry your
clothes in the sun instead. Bathroom
★ If you take an eight-minute shower every day, you produce 616kg of
CO2 a year. ★ If you only use six minutes to take a
shower, you can cut that number by 154kg a year.
根据短文内容判断正、误。 If we use a dryer five times per week, we produce 154kg of
CO2 per year.