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The opening ceremony开幕式) of the Tokyo Summer Olympics will be on July 24, 2020. One year before the event, its medal designs(奖牌设计) were shown, CBS News reported.
However, the medals are quite different from the ones seen in other Olympics. People used old cell phones and other electronic waste to make them!
The organizing committee chose the medal designs by holding a competition. Competitors brought 400 designs. The winner was 51-year-old designer Junichi Kawanishi, the Guardian wrote.
The medals look like pebbles(鹅卵石) and are 8.5 cm in diameter(直径). The front face has a picture of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory.
The committee will make 5,000 medals for this summer's games. Japan is the first Olympic host country to make all of its medals from electronic waste.
1.The Olympics will be held in Japan this summer.
2.The medals are different mostly because it has a picture of Nike in the front face.
3.Junichi Kawanishi beat the other competitors in the competition.
4.From the passage, we are sure it's the first time for an Olympic host country to make medals from waste.
5.From the passage, we can infer(推断) that Japanese value environmental protection.
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The Tokyo Summer Olympics will be held in 2021. The medals(奖牌) are quite special. People used old mobile phones and other waste to make them.
A.medical B.electronic C.historical
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The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo has been put off because of the COVID-19. To welcome the great event, Japan has made 5, 000 medals for the winners. But these Olympic medals are very special. They are all made out of recycled electronic devices(电子设备).
One goal of the Tokyo Olympics is to avoid using too many natural resources, so that the games are environmentally friendly. As part of this goal, the organizers decided to make all of the Olympic medals out of metals recycled from old electronic devices.
You might not know it, but almost all the electronic devices are made with small quantities of precious metals (贵金属), like gold and silver. But collecting enough of these metals to make 5, 000 medals was a huge challenge. That's because the quantity of metals in each device is tiny. It would take about 20,000 cell phones to get just 1 kilogram of gold.
Beginning in April 2017, organizers placed collection boxes around the country, and asked people to turn in their old electronic devices for the Olympic medals. Soon people began to fill up the boxes, turning in smartphones, digital cameras, and laptops. At first, the collection work went slowly, but soon more and more areas began to turn in electronic devices, And 1,621 local governments also helped with the collection work. The Japanese mobile phone company NTT Docomo collected 6.21 million used cell phones. In all, around 71,667, 600 kilograms of electronic devices were collected.
Then came the job of breaking those phones down into smaller pieces. This is a tricky(棘手) job. It is also likely to cause danger, because some of the metals and other things that go into electronic devices aren’t safe for people to touch or breathe. That's why it's not a good idea to try something like this at home. Once the devices were broken down, the metals had to be carefully separated out.
On July 24, 2019, the design for the awards was announced. And by the end of March this year, the organizers had reached their goal.
1.Why does the author say the Tokyo Olympic medals are special?
A.They can be recycled into other products. B.They are small in size and large in number.
C.They are made out of old electronic devices. D.They are green and seem environmentally friendly.
2.What is the main purpose of Paragraph 4?
A.To show the difficulty of the collection work.
B.To thank those who helped with the collection work.
C.To stress the importance of many people working together.
D.To give information on how the collection work was done.
3.What does the author think of the break-down work?
A.Dirty and tiring. B.Hard and dangerous.
C.Boring but rewarding. D.Interesting but challenging.
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Zhang Yimou was chosen to direct the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics _______he was a world-famous director.
A. unless B. because C. until D. so that
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--I've got a ticket to the opening ceremony of the twenty-ninth Olympics. I'm leaving for London in a few days.
--What a lucky guy!________
A. It's kind of you B. Enjoy yourself C. That's all right
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--How was the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics?
--It wasn’t ________ as I thought it would be.
A. exciting B. more exciting C. so exciting D. most exciting
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—I hear you have got a ticket ____ the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
—Yes, I got it ________ my uncle.
A. of; from B. to; from C. to; by
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2018年上海普陀二模Many leaders ________ to attend the Closing Ceremony（闭幕式）of Winter Olympics in February.
A. be invited B. were invited C. will be invited D. have been invited
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— Do you know ________?
— Of course. It will be hosted in Tokyo, Japan.
A. when will the 2020 Olympics be held
B. when the 2020 Olympics will be hosted
C. how the 2020 Olympics will be hosted
D. which city will host the 2020 Olympics
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— Did you watch the opening ceremony (开幕式) of the Nanjing YOG?
— Yeah. It was _____on CCTV and Jiangsu TV.
A. included B. covered
C. received D. directed