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【题目】(2011宁夏银川二中月考)

A small town in southwest Britain is banning plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste—a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.

Shopkeepers in Modbury, population 1, 5000, agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday. They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.

Last month, San Francisco became the first U. S. city to ban plastic grocery bags. Internationally, laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland, where governments tax shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out. Bangladesh already bans them, and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.

Modbury, about 225 miles southwest of London， has also declared a bag amnesty (宽限期), allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home. They will be sent for a recycling.

The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking, who saw the effect of bags on wildlife while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman. She said response in the town so far had been "really positive".

"Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker (柳条)baskets to go out shopping anyway," Hosking told Sky News Television.

The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental research agency， states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone. More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.

【1】 What was Rebecca Hosking?

A. A lawyer. B. An environmentalist.

C. A sailor. D. A photographer.

【2】 The underlined word "disposable" in Paragraph 2 probably means ______.

A. acceptable B. valuable

C. throw-away D. long-lasting

【3】 It can be inferred from the passage that ______ .

A. most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags

B. fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world

C. San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world

D. most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags

【4】 Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A. Environment

B. Cutting Waste

C. Effect of Plastic Bags

D. A British Town Banning Plastic Bags

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 D

【2】 C

【3】 D

【4】 B

【解析】【1】细节理解题。根据第五段The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking，who saw the effect of bags on wildlife while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camera woman. 可知选项D正确。

【2】词义猜测题。根据第二段中plastic bags和paper sacks and cloth carrier bags的对比，以及本文的目的是限制塑料袋的使用以减少“白色垃圾”，可知disposable意为“一次性使用的,用完就丢弃的”，与C项相符合。

【3】推理判断题。根据第四段可知，Modbury也限制塑料袋的使用，故推断不出A项; 根据最后一段可知塑料袋的消耗量还是很大的,故不能选B项; 根据第三段第一句可知C项表述错误; 根据第三段，尤其是internationally一词，我们可推知D项正确。

【4】主旨大意题。本文主要从限制塑料袋以减少垃圾来论述保护环境的。文章的首句就点明了文章的主题。