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Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment-friendly products have contributed to the pollution problem. One re?sult is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic,

and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

However , today , more and more consumers are choosing " green" and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these: "Will this shampoo damage the environment?" "Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?"

A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the envi?ronmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are "green", that is* friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in super?markets ,but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products carry labels to show that the product is green. Some companies have made the manufactur-ing(生产)of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising.

The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of "Buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it". The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act.

1.     It is clear from the passage that the driving force (动力)behind green prod?ucts is .

 

A.     public caring for the environment

B.     rapid development of companies

C.     new ways of doing business

D.     rapid growth of supermarkets

2.     The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to " ".

 

A.     the selling point

B.     the company's products

C.     a great demand for healthful goods

D.     the manufacturing of green products

3.     What would be the best title of the passage?

 

A.     Business and people

B.     Shopping habits are changing

C.     Business goes green

D.     Supermarkets and green products

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people?

9 Yet a very young child―or even an animal, such as a pigeon, can learn to recognize faces. We all take this for granted.

10 When we talk about someone's personality, we mean the ways in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks and feels that make that individual different from others.

Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone's personality in words is somewhat easier than describing his face. 11 But if you were asked to describe a "nice person" you might begin to think about someone who was kind, consider ate friendly, warm, and so forth.

There are many words to describe how a person thinks, feels and acts. Gordon Airport, an American psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words characterizing differences in people's behaviour. 12 Book worms ,conservatives, military types—people are de?scribed with such terms.

People have always tried to "type" each other. Actors in early Greek drama wore masks to show the audi?ence whether they played the villain's or the hero's role. In fact, the words "person" and "personality" come from the Latin persona, meaning "mask". Today? most televi?sion and movie actors do not wear masks. 13

A.    If you were asked to describe what a " nice face" looked like, you probably would have a difficult time do?ing so.

B.    But we can easily tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" because the two types differ in appearance as well as in actions.

C.    We also tell people apart by how they behave.

D.    People have difficulty in describing the features of fingerprints.

E.    And many of us use this information as a basis for describing, or typing one's personality.

F.    Experts say that actors differ in their behavioral and physical characteristics in acting.

G.    Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the feature? that make one face different from another.

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