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1、高中英语 CNN听力2012年02月合辑（文本 翻译）20120221素材CNN英语听力2012年02月合辑（文本+翻译）：20120221According to government estimates, Americans produced about 250 million tons of garbage in 2010. Now, of course,recycling can help cut down on the amount of trash we produce. But thats not enough for one Colorado city.Officials th
2、ere dont just want to decrease the amount of trash, they want to do away with it entirely. Reynolds Wolf shows us how businesses are sorting it all out.Steamboat Springs, Colorado, home of amazing views, snow-capped peaks, stunning treelines and mountains of -garbage?Believe it or not, the connectio
3、n between these snowy heights, this mound of trash and these overflowing lunch trays are closer than you might think. You see, about three years ago, Steamboat Springs set an ambitious goal.They wanted to eliminate all garbage. Theyd recycle or reuse everything. The goal: to be 100 percent waste-fre
4、e by 2014.Heres how it works. Restaurants and town events should use only recycled products. That means that cups, plates and eating utensils have to be compostable or made from recycled goods. Even trash cans are sealed, so customers cant throw anything away. They have people who do it for you.When
5、 a tray comes up to your station, whats your job? What are you doing?We take a soda bottle out. We take any plastic wrappers out, and the plastic wrappers go in the garbage. The soda goes in recycling. Anything left, food or the bioplastic thats left, we put in our compost bin.Yep. These guys sort t
6、hrough Steamboats trash, making sure the right items get to the right places.And to show us how its done, weve got Jesse Rights (ph) with us. Jesse, Ive got this plate that came up. It is a full one. Oh, wow. OK, how do I get started? You tell me what to do with this.Yes, this is quite a typical pla
7、te right here. This is what youd see on a normal basis.First, were going to start with the trash. So we cant recycle anything like this.All right.Tinfoil wrappers - so were going to take these and were going to go straight to the waste with that.What about these guys, the paper?This is completely co
8、mpostable -So that goes in -Follow me. Were going to go in the compost bin right here.And what about this stuff, like plastic?This is actually compostable, too, as well.At the end of the day, all those leftovers come here, the Twin Enviro Composting Facility, just outside of town,where trash disinte
9、grates into dirt. Every year, they turn more than 175 tons of food scraps and other compostable waste into 400 tons of fertile soil, which goes right back to the mountains of Steamboat Springs.Jesse, when you look at all this stuff, I mean, some people would see it and just say, all this goes in the
10、 trash,but a little different when you look at it, huh?You know, when I look at it, I see a big garden of dirt right here. And we can use that. We can bring it in. We can make a, you know, a ramp for our wintertime festivities, or we can get a biking trail started with this.This is, one day, possibl
11、y plant food -Exactly.Unreal.Thats a playground right there.Steamboat already cut its waste by at least 70 percent. They think that with a little guidance any city in any country could do just as well.People are on vacation, so theyre - you know, theyre here for fun. And then when they see something
12、 like that,and it interests them, they can bring it home to where theyre at. I think any bit helps. And if Steamboat brings that to the nation and the world, then thats a good thing.Reynolds Wolf, CNN, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.You fans of our puns are going to love this next story. Those of you w
13、ho dont like them are just going to have to suffer through it.Before we go, were going to check out some barnyard harmonizing.A donkey singing, and that might be the best you can hope for when your duet partner is a donkey.The woman who posted this video on YouTube said she just wanted to play some
14、music for the animals on her farm. The donkey wasnt content to be in the audience, though. He wanted to be in on the act.Might not have had perfect pitch -But if youre going to sing in the wrong key, try not to B flat. Wed say the donkey and his fiddle-playing partner killed it on that song, but we
15、dont want to promote violins. Maybe he should recruit some of his farmyard friends for the next corral concert.We definitely take note of that and be sure to tune in. The puns are coming at a fever pitch. Wed go for more, but were going to hold fermata solid seven. That last one was for you band members. Hope you got it. Enjoy the rest of your day. For CNN Student News, Im Carl Azuz.据政府估计,美国在2010年创造了大约2.5亿吨的垃圾。现在,当然,回收可以帮助我们减少创造的垃圾。但是,这还不能足以满足一个科罗拉多州。那里的官员不只是想减少的垃圾的量,他们想完全除掉它。雷诺兹沃夫向我们展示企业准备如何应对垃圾。科罗拉多州的蒸汽船弹簧这家公司眼观独到,这积雪盖顶的山峰,令人惊异的林木和山脉都是垃圾改造而成?信不信由你,连接这些雪白的高度的大堆垃圾和午餐托盘近比你所想的还要近。你看,大约3
