Julian Melcer lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. He cleans Israeli beaches every morning. He picks up cigarette butts (烟蒂).

Julian started to clean the beaches three years ago. He does not like the trash on beaches. He sells ashtrays (烟灰缸) to smokers. He makes up to 4,000 dollars a month in summer. He also makes art from cigarette butts. Julian talks to smokers. He tells them how dangerous cigarette butts are. They hurt sea animals and the natural world.

Millions of people clean beaches in all the world. They do it for more than 30 years. The cigarette butt is the most usual trash. People pick up more than 60 million cigarette butts over 30 years. People throw away more cigarette butts than plastic bottles, containers, and other things.

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1.When does Julian Melcer usually go to beaches?

A At weekends.

B In the morning.

C On weekdays.

D In the evening.

解析：选B。B细节理解题。根据第一段He cleans Israeli beaches every morning.可知，朱利安每天早上清理以色列海滩。故选B。

2.When did Julian start to clean the beaches?

A In 2016.

B In 2017.

C In 2018.

D In 2019.

解析：选C。C细节理解题。根据第二段Julian started to clean the beaches three years ago.可知，朱利安三年前（即2021-3=2018年）开始清理海滩。故选C。

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A Julian gives smokers ashtrays.

B Julian turns cigarette butts into art.

C Julian has lessons for those smokers.

D Julian spends 4,000 dollars cleaning the beaches.

解析：选B。B细节理解题。根据第二段He also makes art from cigarette butts.可知，他还用烟头做艺术品。故选B。

4.The last paragraph tells us that______.

A more and more people like beaches

B lots of smokers come to clean beaches

C it is hard to clean cigarette butts at beaches

D the number of cigarette butts is very big

解析：选D。D推理判断题。根据最后一段People pick up more than 60 million cigarette butts over 30 years.可知，30年来，人们捡了6000多万个烟头，由此看出烟头的数量非常大。故选D。