《2025年学霸组合训练八年级英语上册译林版南通专版》

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Recycling is good for the environment. It can also benefit a community in surprising ways.
Mateo Lange, 15, knows this well. On weekends, you’ll find 46. ______ (him) sorting(分类) through glass and plastic bottles and metal cans in his hometown of Michigan. There, he leads a community recycling programme.
Mateo 47. ______ (took) up the programme in 2020. He was 11 and in the 48. ______ (sixth) grade, playing baseball with the Northern Michigan Cyclones. The team was new and needed money 49. ______ (to travel) to tournaments(锦标赛). Mateo had a plan.
“Lots of cans and bottles are thrown around the road; these can be collected and exchanged for cash(现金),” he says. With his 50. ______ (dad's) help, Mateo started a bottle and can drive. It raised $7,500. “We have built up so much money in just a few weeks,” he says. “Why don’t we keep this going as long as we can?”Since then, Mateo’s recycling has raised $350,000 and helped at least 50 local youth groups. It has also prevented more than two million bottles and cans from littering the roadside and 51. ______ (polluting) the lakes and rivers. “It has kept our community much 52. ______ (cleaner),” he says. “It is 53. ______ (actually) a lot of fun,” he says, “especially in the summer time.”
Mateo believes 54. ______ (everyone) can and should be of service. “Just do a little bit to help make the world a better place,” he says.
“Be 55. ______ (creative),” he adds. “Have an idea and build on it.”

答案： 46.him 47.took 48.sixth 49.to travel 50.dad's 51.polluting 52.cleaner 53.actually 54.everyone 55.creative