A small town in southwest Britain is banning(禁止) plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste—a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.
Shopkeepers in Modbury population 1500,agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday.They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.
Last month,San Franciso became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags.Internationally,laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland,where governments either tax shoppers who use them or fine panies that hand them out.Bangladesh already bans them,and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.
Modbury,about 225 miles southwest of London,has also declared a bag amnesty(宽限期),allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home.They will be sent for traveling.
The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking,who saw the effect of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman.She said response(反应) in the town so far had been “really positive”.
“Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,”Hosking told Sky News Television.
The Worldwatch Institute,an environmental research agency,states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone.More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.
【小题1】What was Rebecca Hosking?A．A lawyer.B．An environmentalist.C．A sailor.D．A photographer.【小题2】The underlined word “disposable” in the passage probably means .A．acceptableB．valuableC．throw-awayD．long-lasting【小题3】It can be inferred from the passage that .A．most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bagsB．fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the worldC．San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the worldD．most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags【小题4】Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?A．Environmental ProtectionB．Big Cities Banning Plastic BagsC．Effect of Plastic Bags on Sea AnimalsD．British Town Banning Plastic BagsD
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(答案→)D
解析：
【小题1】这是一道细节推断题。根据第五段“The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking,who saw the effect of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman.”可判断出禁止使用塑料袋的主意是一个女野外摄影师Rebecca Hosking在观察了塑料袋对海洋生物的影响后提出的，也就是说Rebecca Hosking是个摄影师。
【小题2】这是一道词义推断题。根据第二段“They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead”可判断出塑料袋将被禁止使用，取而代之的是纸袋和布袋，因为塑料袋是用完即被丢弃，纸袋和布袋可以重复使用，可以推断出disposable的意思是“可丢弃”的。
【小题3】这是一道推理题。文中第三段介绍了除了Modbury外，还有旧金山、Bangladesh、南非和爱尔兰的部分地区也开始禁止使用塑料袋，可以推断出塑料袋在全世界的使用将越来越少。
【小题4】这是一道主旨题。本文主要介绍了英国的一个小镇为了保护环境，开始禁止使用塑料袋，进而介绍了其他禁止使用的地区和塑料袋对环境的不良影响。