Unit 3 Activity 6 Read the passage and answer the questions.

With his drawing in his hand,twelve-year-old Zhang Wenpeng said that people must wake up to the fact that pollution is causing damage to the progress we've made．

12岁的张文鹏，手中拿着他的画说，人们必须认识到这个事实：污染正在对我们所取得的进步构成危害。

“To save water is to save lives,”he said.

“节约水就是拯救生命。”他说。

His classmate from the same primary school in the hilly countryside of western China，eleven-year-old Zhou Zhiyun,has painted a big shining light,with the message that people must not waste electricity.

他的同学，11岁的周志云，来自中国西部山区同一所小学，画了一个大的发光的灯泡，传达了人们不准浪费电的信息。

The students were members of a project to discuss “changes in the climate alI over the world and what we can do about them”.

这些学生是探讨“仝球气候变化及我们对此能做什么”课题的成员。

The school suggested that the students should pass on what they have learnt in school to their parents and neighbours.

学校建议学生们将他们在学校学到的知识传递给他们的父母和邻居。

“I told my family why we should turn off the light when we leave a room," said one student．

“我告诉我的家人当我们离开房间时为什么应该关上灯（的道理），”一个学生说。

China now has many green schools like this one．

中国现在有很多所这样的绿色学校。

In order to become a "green school" ,a school must include education about the environment as part of the timetable．

为了成为一所“绿色学校”，学校必须将环境教育作为课程表的一部分。

“Education is important and can help children and young people change their habits. At the same time, they can pass on knowledge to their neighbours," said a director of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

“教育很重要，并且能帮助孩子和年轻人改变他们的习惯。同时，他们还能将知识传递给邻居，环境保护部的一位负责人说。