To get a chocolate out of a box requires a lot of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane (玻璃纸) wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries. It is now being increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.
The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London house-hold each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply petitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up valuable energy and resources and polluting the environment.
Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies (牛奶场）, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.
The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to throw away plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many producers who say there is no alternative (替代品) to their handy plastic packs.
It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers rather than producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and to make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly being increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of throwing away packaging as using it wisely. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.
【小题1】The underlined part “this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries” in Paragraph l means .A．more wrapping is needed for ordinary productsB．the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessaryC．more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary productsD．too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products【小题2】Why is packaging important to producers?A．It is easy to use it again.B．Packaged things will not go rotten.C．They want to attract more shoppers.D．Shoppers are all interested in beautiful packaging.【小题3】According to the passage, dairies are .A．reusing their paper containersB．giving up the use of glass bottlesC．increasing the use of plastic bottlesD．experimenting with the use of paper bottles【小题4】Some environmentalists think that .A．too much plastic is wastedB．shops should stop using plastic containersC．no alternative can be found to plastic packagingD．plastic packaging should be made more convenientD
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(答案→)D
解析：文章介绍过度包装的问题，还有容器的回收利用问题。过度包装造成能源浪费和环境污染，环境保护学者认为商店应该停止使用一次性的塑料容器。
【小题1】句意理解：这句话的意思是：这种过度的包装不仅仅局限于奢侈品，说明奢侈品和普通的产品都有过度包装的现象。选D
【小题2】推理题：从第二段的句子：Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply petitive selling. 可知包装主要是生产商想吸引顾客。选C
【小题3】细节题：从第三段的句子：But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.可知乳制品现在越来越多的使用塑料瓶。选C
【小题4】细节题：从第四段的句子：Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to throw away plastic altogether in the shops, 可知环境保护学者认为商店应该停止使用塑料容器。选B