题目内容
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 realise just how much unnecessary material are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb.
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.
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
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
4. What can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
A. Unpackaged products are of bad quality.
B. Supermarkets care more about packaging.
C. It is improper to judge quality by packaging.
D. Other products are better packaged than food.
5. 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.
【小题1】D
【小题2】D
【小题3】A
【小题4】C
【小题5】A
解析:
【语篇解读】本篇文章为议论文。本文阐明了回收有助于环保，然而回收是在解决过度消费带来的后果；因此。更好的方法是避免不必要的消费。
【小题1】词意理解题。构词法可知,over表示过度， consumption是“消费”，再根据第一段第三句“However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need”可推测答案为D。
【小题2】细节理解题。第二段中的这些数据说明包装费用的上涨以及它在家庭所产生的垃圾中的比例是为了进一不阐明第一段中提出的overconsumption的问题，由此可以推测，答案为D。
【小题3】细节理解题。由第三段的第四句“Recycling helps”可知。
【小题4】推断判断题。由第四段的最后一句“which often have far more packaging than necessary”可知，有些包装是不必要的；即包装与质量没有必然联系。所以，根据包装判断质量是不合适的。
【小题5】推断判断题。由最后一句“but we have a mountain to climb.”可以推知答案为A。
