Question

【题目】All animals produce waste. We call it “waste,” but we all know it can be very useful. In some parts of the world, animal waste, or poop, is collected, dried, and burned for cooking and heating. 【1】

The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Center has an unusual way of using animal “waste.” The center’s 40 pandas produce about two tons of poop a day. This material is being turned into a new product called Panda Poop Paper. 【2】 After all, paper is made from plant fiber, which cannot be digested and simply goes through the body as waste.

Since pandas eat nothing but bamboo, their “waste” is perfect paper material. 【3】

Their stomachs haven’t fully developed for their vegetarian diet, so their bodies make use of just 20% of what they eat. The other 80% comes out as poop: very high in fiber and perfect for paper.

Once the poop is collected, it is cleaned with chemicals, crushed(碾碎), and put into frames(框架) to dry. 【4】 Because of its good quality as well as the worldwide popularity of the panda, gift products made from the paper sell well.

【5】They got the idea from the elephant dung(大象粪) paper made at Elephant Conservation Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. And Creative Paper Wales in the U.K. sell paper gifts made from sheep waste.

A. But do you know some paper from poop?

B. Where does the paper come from?

C. After these steps, good, strong paper comes into being.

D. Moreover, there is more special about pandas.

E. It’s not really that strange!

F. Yet, the Chinese weren’t the first people producing paper from animal waste.

G. Farmers have been using animal and human waste for a long time.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】E

【3】D

【4】C

【5】F

【解析】

试题分析：本文属于说明文，文章以熊猫的粪便被制作成为纸张为例，介绍了动物的粪便可以有其他的用途。

【1】A 根据In some parts of the world, animal waste, or poop, is collected, dried, and burned for cooking and heating.可知，很多动物的粪便有其他的用途。文章接下来介绍熊猫的粪便被制作成为纸张，故A项“但是你听过由粪便制成的纸张吗？”承接上下文。

【2】E 根据后一句中的After all paper is made from plant fiber可知，由于纸张本来就是由纤维组成的，因此用纤维含量高的熊猫粪便制作纸张也就不足为奇。故E项正确。

【3】D 接下来介绍的“熊猫只能吸收其所吃的20%，剩余80%富含纤维的食物都随粪便排出体外”是熊猫的一个特殊优势。故D项正确。

【4】C 根据上一句中的collected, cleaned, crushed和dry可知，经过这些程序后，熊猫的粪便被制作成为非常好用且结实的纸张。故C项正确。

【5】F 根据下一句They got the idea from the elephant-dung paper made at the Elephant Conservation Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand 可知，咱们中国并不是第一个想到用动物粪便制作纸张的国家。故F项正确。