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Test your eco-iq
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| 1. You suck down a beverage and are left with the empty can. You: a. Hold on to it until you find a recycling bin. b. If there's no recycling bin nearby, you throw it out (then feel bad about it). c. Toss it in the trash. You only recycle at home. 2. You're stopping off at the grocery store for dinner on the way home. You: a. Grab your canvas shopping totes -- and use them. b. Get to the checkout before you realize you left your reusable bags in the car. Oh, well. Next time. c. Think: Reusable shopping bags -- that sounds like a good idea. I should do that. 3. Which best describes you? a. You've seen "An Inconvenient Truth," maybe even more than once (because you insist your friends and family watch it). b. You haven't seen it, but keep meaning to. c. "An Inconvenient Truth"? Doesn't that star George Clooney? 4. Picking up some office supplies, you're most likely to: a. Choose 100 percent post-consumer recycled goods to save our precious resources. b. Opt for recycled, but only if it's on sale or comparable in price to conventional supplies. c. Buy whatever's right in front of you, and if it's recycled, that's great, too. 5. Your ideal green transportation: a. Your own two feet, when you're not biking, taking public transportation, driving your hybrid. b. Biking or taking public transportation when you can; driving when you can't. c. Your car. (Maybe someday I'll get a hybrid, but they're so much more expensive.) 6. The term "climate change" is enough to: a. Keep you awake at night. b. Cause a mild, if remote, tremor at the periphery of your mental radar. c. Make you turn the channel. 7. You've had it with the junk mail. You: a. Register with the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) to have your name removed from direct mailing lists, stopping it at the source. b. Recycle it, or shred it and use it for packing gifts. c. Throw it in the garbage. | 8. When spring rolls around and fresh fruits and veggies come in season, you:
a. Shop at a farmers' market, or look into buying shares at a CSA (community supported agriculture). Locally grown produce is important to you.
b. Opt for the organic produce at Whole Foods, unless they don't have what you want, in which case conventional will have to do for now.
c. Just go to the grocery store. They always have fresh greens there.
9. To keep your home clean, you:
a. Always opt for safe, nontoxic green cleaners, either ones you buy off the shelf or make yourself.
b. Have tried some of the greener brands, but are afraid they don't actually clean as well as traditional ones, so you go back and forth.
c. Stick to bleach, ammonia, and conventional cleaners. They're the only way to get things really clean.
10. When it comes to the eco lifestyle, you're:
a. Most likely the one teaching your friends and family about going green.
b. Definitely interested, and do what you can to take earth-friendly steps, if it makes sense.
c. Mildly interested, but really it tends to stress you out. It's one more thing to worry about.
11. You're more likely to buy from companies that:
a. Are completely committed to sound environmental practices, and use partially or all-organic/sustainable materials.
b. Generally offer a more natural or organic product or option, but it's not critical.
c. Provide real value; if they make donations to charity or to help the environment, all the better.
12. When you need your coffee fix, you're sure to:
 a. Bring your reusable coffee thermos to work filled with a brew made from organic, shade-grown, fair-trade beans.
b. Buy organic or fair-trade, whichever they have. If neither, you'll go green next time.
c. Get hazelnut – and if they have it in fair-trade, great.
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RATE YOURSELF Scores. Give yourself three points for every A answer, two points for every B, and one point for every C you marked down. Add them up to see where you fall in the categories below.
| 30 or higher: DARK GREEN OR SUPER GREEN You are quite the environmentalist. Do you recycle gray water and live off the electrical grid? Carbon footprint: Merely a trace. | 18-24: LIGHT GREEN You've started along the path toward a more ecologically sound lifestyle, but would it kill you to buy a few canvas bags for shopping, or install a low-flow showerhead? Think baby steps. Carbon footprint: Shaquille O'Neal. |
| 24-29: GREEN Your solid shade of green is a credit to the planet. No doubt you reuse and reduce before resorting to recycling. Carbon footprint: A nicely styled size 6 Manolo Blahnik. | 12-17: YELLOW (for caution) Climb out of the driver's seat and step away from the SUV. Set your washer on cold water and buy a half-dozen canvas bags, because you need to start small. More importantly, you need to start. Carbon footprint: Bigfoot. |
5. LISTENING AND SPEAKING_________________________________________
5.1. Answer the following questions.
1. What do you see in the picture?
2. What type of car is it? Is it modern? What are the criteria of a modern car?
3. Why did the photographer decide to present the new type of car in such a way (black-and-white picture, vintage horse carriage, outdated plant, woman in old-fashioned clothes)?
4. What is the woman doing? Why does she want to do it?
5. Have you ever heard about electric or hybrid vehicles? How do they work? Are they efficient?
6. How does an electric car work? How does it store the energy?
7. Is an electric car expensive? Is it expensive to run?
8. Should electric vehicles be common or exclusive?
9. Would you like to drive a petrol car, hybrid car, electric car? Give your grounds
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| 5.2. Listen to a person speaking about ultra-modern electric vehicles and for questions 1-8, choose the best answer (A, B or C). 1. Tesla Motors sends nifty sports jobs for: a) $190, 000: b) $109,000: c) $119.000. 2. Tesla's vehicles use standard: a) nickel metal hybrid battery cells, b) lithium-ion battery cells, c) nickel-cadmium battery cells. 3. Such batteries are used in: a) laptops, b) VCRs, c) cell phones. 4. Electric cars are no good if you want to: a) drive short trips, b) plan a long journey, c) drive to Cannes. | 5. Inventors intend to make them: a) work-a-day items, b) stylish, c) high-end boy’s toy. 6. In a standard battery a) a lot of energy is stored b) a lot of energy is lost c) a lot of energy is released 7. That energy is: a) easy to store and release b) difficult to store and release c) inefficient to store and release 8. A supercapacitor a) stores little energy, b) takes time to discharge, c) is difficult to charge. |
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