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【題目】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_overconsumption 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 areas for burying 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 it 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 we 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“ that overconsumption” 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 supermarkets

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.

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 D

【2】 D

【3】 A

【4】 C

【解析】【1】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第一段最后一句．..but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place.(如果我們不往家里帶如此多東西的話，情況就會(huì)好得多。)可知詞義為“過度消費(fèi)”，故選D。

【2】推理判斷題。本段中通過12%between 1999 and 2005及a third說明“過度使用包裝”這一問題，故選D。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段第三句和第四句Recycling helps...可知“回收利用對(duì)控制溫室效應(yīng)有所幫助”，故選A。

【4】推理判斷題。第四段中敘述“人們通常把產(chǎn)品的質(zhì)量與包裝聯(lián)系起來，甚至以產(chǎn)品或食品包裝的好壞論質(zhì)量的高低”，但最后指出“很多包裝是不必要的”，故選C。