Question

As we become richer and richer, we are producing more and more rubbish. The Asian Development Bank（ADB） says that our largest cities produce 760 000 tons of solid waste every day. It predicts（预料） that there will be an increase—to 1.8 million tons—by 2025. It seems too much to deal with. “The growing waste is simply trying to cover our cities,” says Michael Lindfield, a specialist of ADB in Manila.

The proper treatment of rubbish is beyond the financial resources（金融资源）of many countries. The World Bank says some governments are spending as much as half of their budgets（预算） dealing with rubbish. And even so, it is common that half of all the waste goes uncollected.

Much of the added difficulty is packaging from consumer（消费者）products and the products themselves—all of which need years, even centuries to decompose（化解）. Lindfield believes that four of every five products we buy are thrown away after a single use. It all makes the work to deal with solid waste much more expensive.

The rubbish is more than just an environmental problem—it also influences national economies（经济） by disturbing the world market, discouraging tourism and slowing down industrial development.

Lots of rubbish also influences the look of our cities. As he walks to work from his home in Bangkok every day, Chatchat Mutita, a 36-year-old advertising specialist, must pass a lot of ugly, smelly rubbish that isn’t collected until late at night. He says things get worse when it rains because some yellow water will stream from the rubbish to the sidewalk.

Modern technology can make the problems of open dumps less serious. But Chettiyappan Visvanathan, a professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Pathumthal, Thailand, believes that there are no engineered facilities（设备） in nine of every ten dumps all over the country. Some countries depend on most solid waste to produce energy, but there’s a growing problem of air pollution. Burning is far more dangerous than open dumps. The ADB says the growing rubbish must be dealt with by the “3Rs” —reducing the waste, reusing things that are being thrown away and recycling materials.

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．What our environment looks like.

B．How important to clean our cities.

C．What a serious problem we have.

D．How difficult to remove rubbish.

2.Which of the the following can be the most serious problem rubbish brings to us?

A．It causes a lot of difficulty cleaning up our cities.

B．It stops our nation economies from developing.

C．It makes our environment uglier and dirtier.

D．It brings air pollution, water pollution and diseases.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean in the passage?

A．Many countries are short of proper methods to deal with rubbish.

B．Many countries are not rich enough to deal with rubbish properly.

C．Many countries are short of proper resources to deal with rubbish.

D．Many countries are not wise enough to deal with rubbish properly.

4.Which of the following is true, according to the passage?

A．There are both hope and difficulty in our future.

B．It’s impossible for us to make our cities clean.

C．We may find some ways but things will be worse.

D．The problem is not serious if everyone knows it.

Answer 1