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As part of their community work project, Alice and
___1___ friends
were at East Coast Park last Sunday. They were to
clear the beach of ___2___.
Miss Tan, their teacher, divided them into ___3___
of six and assigned each team a particular area to
work on. "Oh, dear! Look at the litter strewn ___4___
the dustbins," Alice said in disgust. "Why can't
these people ___5___
the litter into the bins instead of around them.
Don't they know the objective of ___6___
litter bins here in the park?"
"They must be real lazy bums. The environment
officers ___7___
come here and book them for littering the place,"
Belinda added.
Alice and her team ___8___
up the empty packets of drinks, straws, paper and
other paper products with their gloved ___9___
and put them into the litter ___10___.
They placed empty bottles and ___11___
cans in separate bags. "All these would make the
recycling job ___12___,"
Miss Tan had said.
The girls were busy working when suddenly they
___13___ a
shout. They looked up and ___14___
an officer in uniform giving instructions to a group
of people in front of him. "Good! More hands ___15___
light work," Belinda exclaimed.
Alice and the ___16___
girls were puzzled. They wondered why the group was
putting on colored jackets with the letters C.W.O.
___17___ on
them. Belinda explained that the letters ___18___
for Corrective Work Order. Those people had been ___19___
littering and cleaning up public areas like the
beach was the punishment imposed on them. It is
hoped that such punishment would make the offenders
feel ___20___ of
themselves for throwing litter indiscriminately.
Keeping the environment clean and green is our
responsibility. We need to have fresh air to live a
happy and healthy life. |
