Question

Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.
The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of it for carrying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are coming round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example.
But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But is also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary.
There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
【小題1】What does the underlined phrase “over-consumption” refer to?

A．Using too much packaging.

B．Recycling too many wastes.

C．Making more products than necessary.

D．Having more material than is needed.

【小題2】The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _______.

A．the tendency of cutting household waste

B．the increase of packaging recycling

C．the rapid growth of super markets

D．the fact of packaging overuse

【小題3】According to the text, recycling ______.

A．helps control the greenhouse effect

B．means burning packaging for energy

C．is the solution to gas shortage

D．leads to a waste of land

【小題4】What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．Fighting wastefulness is difficult.

B．Needless material is mostly recycled.

C．People like collecting recyclable waste.

D．The author is proud of their consumer culture.

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】D
【小題3】A
【小題4】A

解析試題分析： 本文講述了循環(huán)利用是可以減輕溫室效應(yīng)但是我們更應(yīng)該首先就不要過(guò)度消費(fèi)，應(yīng)該反對(duì)家庭生活中的過(guò)度消費(fèi)和浪費(fèi)。
【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。從前文being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need.可知，此處應(yīng)該指產(chǎn)生出了超過(guò)我們使用的東西，即過(guò)度消費(fèi)，故選 D
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)題。從In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
可知作者舉出實(shí)例是為了說(shuō)明過(guò)度的包裝東西實(shí)屬浪費(fèi)，這已經(jīng)是一個(gè)事實(shí)，故選D
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)題。從If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps,可知循環(huán)利用可以幫忙控制溫室效應(yīng)，故選A
【小題4】細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。從最后一句We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.可知在我們面前還有一座大山要翻越，可知對(duì)于反對(duì)浪費(fèi)還有很長(zhǎng)的路要走，故選A
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