今天上午监考2008年12月份的英语四级考试，看了下作文觉得很容易啊，是今年的环境保护领域的一个热点。还是和大家的生活是息息相关的，留心的人一定没有错过。大家都有话说，呵呵，我看这是近年来英语等级考试的基本纲要。事件回放如下：
2008年1月8日,国务院办公厅下发《关于限制生产销售使用塑料购物袋的通知》,从6月1日起,在全国范围内禁止生产销售使用超薄塑料袋,并实行塑料袋有偿使用制度。
Limiting The Use of Disposable Plastic Bags
1.一次性塑料袋曾被广泛的使用
2.造成的问题
3.限制使用的意义
范文：
Disposable plastic bags were once widely used in China. When we went shopping at supermarkets and departments stores, shopping assistants often provided free plastic bags for our convenience. For a while, life without them seemed unimaginable for most of us.
However, disposable plastic bags do bring severe damage to our environment. Costumers usually threw them away after use, and because they are thin and hard to decompose, these plastic products will exist for a long time. This is an immediate threat to our earth and water.
Nowadays, the government has passed relevant regulations for limiting the use of disposable plastic bags: they are not free any more. In some shopping places, in order to invoke the public awareness of environmental protection, plastic bags are offered in a much higher price. As a result, people are changing their behavior: paper and clothing bags that vanished for a long time come back to our daily life. It is true that by limiting its usage, everyone in this society contributes some effort to the improvement of the environment.