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.
【小题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.

【小题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

【小题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

【小题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

【小题1】D
【小题2】D
【小题3】A
【小题4】A

解析试题分析： 本文讲述了循环利用是可以减轻温室效应但是我们更应该首先就不要过度消费，应该反对家庭生活中的过度消费和浪费。
【小题1】细节推断题。从前文being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need.可知，此处应该指产生出了超过我们使用的东西，即过度消费，故选 D
【小题2】细节题。从In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard.
可知作者举出实例是为了说明过度的包装东西实属浪费，这已经是一个事实，故选D
【小题3】细节题。从If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps,可知循环利用可以帮忙控制温室效应，故选A
【小题4】细节推断题。从最后一句We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.可知在我们面前还有一座大山要翻越，可知对于反对浪费还有很长的路要走，故选A
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