【題目】 Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. In Britain, the average person spends more than 1,000 on new clothes a year, which is around four percent of their income.【1】But it hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment. First, a lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently owe approximately 670 per adult to credit card companies. That's 66 percent of the average wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don't have, they're using it to buy things they don't need.【2】.

People might not realize they are part of the disposable clothing problem because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities.【3】Huge quantities end up being thrown away, and a lot of clothes that charities can't sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.

【4】The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving weekend.【5】Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organize the exchange and repair of items they already own. They send a clear message to companies that people are no longer willing to accept the environmental and human cost of overconsumption.

A.Fast fashion' goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to recycle;

B.Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites.

C.The British people are deeply shocked by the unexpected statistics.

D.On Buy Nothing Day people organize various types of protests and cut up their credit cards.

E.However, a 'buy nothing' trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism.

F.That might not sound like much.

G.But charity shops can't sell all those unwanted clothes.

【答案】

【1】F

【2】B

【3】G

【4】E

【5】D

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。商家、媒體鼓吹的消費(fèi)主義使英國(guó)人買很多不需要的新衣服，與之相反的“不消費(fèi)日”逐漸興起，文章對(duì)此作了介紹。

【1】

空前提到“在英國(guó)，每人一年平均要花費(fèi)超過1000英鎊買新衣服，大約是他們收入的百分之四”，F項(xiàng)“那聽起來可能不是很多”承接上文，與下文“但是它隱含了兩個(gè)對(duì)社會(huì)和對(duì)環(huán)境令人擔(dān)心的多的事實(shí)”之間是轉(zhuǎn)折關(guān)系，上下文銜接緊密，F項(xiàng)中it指代空前一句中“more than 1,000”，故選F項(xiàng)。

【2】

空前提到“人們不但把錢花在沒有的東西上，他們也花錢買他們不需要的東西”，B項(xiàng)“英國(guó)一年要扔掉300,000噸衣服，大部分都去了垃圾填埋場(chǎng)”對(duì)空前提到的“花錢買不需要的東西”具體說明，故選B項(xiàng)。

【3】

空前提到“人們沒有意識(shí)到他們自己也是隨意處理衣服問題的一部分，因?yàn)樗麄儼巡幌胍囊路杞o慈善機(jī)構(gòu)”，G項(xiàng)“但是慈善商店不能賣這些所有不想要的衣服”與空后“大量的最終被扔掉”是講慈善機(jī)構(gòu)對(duì)人們捐的衣服的處理辦法，上下文銜接緊密，G項(xiàng)中“charity”和“those unwanted clothes”都與上下文呼應(yīng)。故選G項(xiàng)。

【4】

空處位于句首，是段落主題句，根據(jù)本段內(nèi)容“這個(gè)想法源于20世紀(jì)90年代早期的加拿大，然后傳播到美國(guó)，它成為一種對(duì)過度花費(fèi)和過去消費(fèi)的抵制，在感恩周期間黑色星期五和網(wǎng)購(gòu)星期一人們會(huì)過度消費(fèi)”可知，E項(xiàng)“然而，一種與消費(fèi)主義相反的“不消費(fèi)”趨勢(shì)開始出現(xiàn)”切題，空后是對(duì)“不消費(fèi)”趨勢(shì)的解釋說明，空后的“The idea”指代E項(xiàng)中“a 'buy nothing' trend”，故選E項(xiàng)。

【5】

空后“在全年的時(shí)間里，“不消費(fèi)”群體組織現(xiàn)有東西的交換和維修”是講述“不消費(fèi)”群體具體做什么，D 項(xiàng)“在“不消費(fèi)日”，人們組織各種類型的抗議活動(dòng)，并且減少他們的信用卡”也是說人們的做法，上下文銜接自然，D項(xiàng)紅“Buy Nothing Day”與本段內(nèi)容呼應(yīng)。故選D項(xiàng)。

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