Day 7 Passage 1 Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotels often provide guests(客人) with things like disposable (一次性的) toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers. 1.______ But, if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring your own things. Starting from June, some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. 2.______ Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. 3.______ Do you know, one Chinese person makes as much as 400kg of waste a year! Most of that waste comes from disposable things. In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw out, the better. 4.______ Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life: Use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. 5.______ Do not use paper cups. At your school diningroom, use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones. To protect our environment and our home, it is very necessary and important for us to save natural resources. A. It is a waste of natural resources and is very bad for the environment. B. Many guests like the idea because they don’t h