To get a chocolate out of a box requires a lot of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane (玻璃紙) wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.
The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London house-hold each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up valuable energy and resources and polluting the environment.
Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies (牛奶場), washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.
The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to throw away plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many producers who say there is no alternative (替代品) to their handy plastic packs.
It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers rather than producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and to make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of throwing away packaging as using it wisely. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.
【小題1】The underlined part “this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries” in Paragraph l means ______.

A.more wrapping is needed for ordinary products
B.the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessary
C.more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary products
D.too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products
【小題2】Why is packaging important to producers?
A.It is easy to use it again.
B.Packaged things will not go rotten.
C.They want to attract more shoppers.
D.Shoppers are all interested in beautiful packaging.
【小題3】According to the passage, dairies are ______.
A.reusing their paper containers
B.giving up the use of glass bottles
C.increasing the use of plastic bottles
D.experimenting with the use of paper bottles
【小題4】Some environmentalists think that ______.
A.too much plastic is wasted
B.shops should stop using plastic containers
C.no alternative can be found to plastic packaging
D.plastic packaging should be made more convenient


【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】C
【小題4】B

解析試題分析:文章介紹過度包裝的問題,還有容器的回收利用問題。過度包裝造成能源浪費和環(huán)境污染,環(huán)境保護學(xué)者認為商店應(yīng)該停止使用一次性的塑料容器。
【小題1】句意理解:這句話的意思是:這種過度的包裝不僅僅局限于奢侈品,說明奢侈品和普通的產(chǎn)品都有過度包裝的現(xiàn)象。選D
【小題2】推理題:從第二段的句子:Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. 可知包裝主要是生產(chǎn)商想吸引顧客。選C
【小題3】細節(jié)題:從第三段的句子:But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.可知乳制品現(xiàn)在越來越多的使用塑料瓶。選C
【小題4】細節(jié)題:從第四段的句子:Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to throw away plastic altogether in the shops, 可知環(huán)境保護學(xué)者認為商店應(yīng)該停止使用塑料容器。選B
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