首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by
admin
2009-04-26
99
问题
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A—G. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you.
A. A machine has been developed that pulps paper and then processes it into packaging, e.g. egg-boxes and cartons. This could be easily adapted for local authorities use. It would mean that people would have to separate their refuse into paper and non-paper, with a different dustbin for each. Paper is, in fact, probably the material that can be most easily recycled; and now, with massive increases in paper prices, the time has come at which collection by local authorities could be profitable.
B. Recycling of this kind is already happening with milk bottles, which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More and more dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles, and it has been estimated that if all the milk bottles necessary were made of plastic, then British dairies would be producing the equivalent of enough plastic tubing to encircle the earth every five or six days!
C. 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 household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.
D. The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever growing mounds of plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.
E. Little research, however, is being carried out on the costs of alternative types of packaging. Just how possible is it, for instance, for local authorities to salvage paper, pulp it and recycle it as egg-boxes? Would it be cheaper to plant another forest? Paper is the material most used for packaging—20 million paper bags are apparently used in Great Britain each day—but very little is salvaged.
F. 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 as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and making things look better so that more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more sophisticated approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.
G. To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking, the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived; the cellophane 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 insane amount of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in cellophane, polythene or paper.
Order: G is the first paragraph and F is the last.
Notes:
cellophane(包装用的)玻璃纸。do up 打包,装饰。polythene 聚乙烯。refuse n.废料,废物。mess up 型脏,弄乱。salvage 回收利用。pulp 使…成为浆状。carton 纸板盒。encircle 环绕。mound 小丘,小堆。do away with 处理掉。as opposed to与…对照。not so much...as与其…倒不如…。
选项
答案
D
解析
上文谈到用塑料瓶代替玻璃瓶装牛奶,这样每5—6天英国奶牛场生产的塑料瓶就可以绕地球一周。接着,寻找关键信息词plastic。D中不但有关键信息词plastic,而且逻辑联系也合适:塑料瓶存在的麻烦以及环境专家和制造商对前景的看法。F段起对全文进行总结归纳的作用。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/1ii4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Whichofthefollowingcanbethebesttitleofthispassage?Themainfunctionoftheliveristo______.
Themanagementwantedto______theworkersofwhattheyaresupposedtobeproducing.
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Theword"disparity"(Paragr
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
TheUnitedStateshashistoricallyhadhigherratesofmarriagethanthoseofotherindustrializedcountries.Thecurrentannual
Organizationsandsocietiesrelyonfinesandrewardstoharnesspeople’sself-interestintheserviceofthecommongood.Thet
Youarewhatyoueat,orsothesayinggoes.ButRichardWrangham,ofHarvardUniversity,believesthatthisistrueinamorep
Speakingtwolanguagesratherthanjustonehasobviouspracticalbenefitsinanincreasinglyglobalizedworld.Butinrecentye
WhenLiamMcGeedepartedaspresidentofBankofAmericainAugust,hisexplanationwassurprisinglystraightup.Ratherthancl
随机试题
增液承气汤用于治疗哪一型急性胰腺炎
肾在志为
木楼梯工程量,按水平投影面积计量,应扣除()楼梯井所占面积。
依据()的不同,债券分为附息债券、一次还本付息债券和贴现债券。
Everyday25millionU.S.childrenrideschoolbuses.Thesafetyrecordforthesebusesismuchbetterthanforpassengercars;
在下面的横线上填上相应的古诗文名句。杜甫在《登高》诗中说:“无边落木萧萧下,________。”李煜则在《虞美人》词中感慨:“问君能有几多愁?________。”李清照则在《声声慢》中一声长叹:“这次第,________?”
根据以下资料,回答下列问题。1952年,我国国内生产总值(GDP)仅为300亿美元。1960年,达到614亿美元。之后,每年的GDP总量呈稳步小幅上升态势。1972年突破1000亿美元,之后用了10年的时间达到2021亿美元(1982年)。从此以后,我国
厨房:电磁炉:做饭
面向对象系统由对象及其相互间的通信构成。一般来说,面向对象软件的测试可以分为4个层次进行。其中,(3)测试,测试类中定义的每个方法,基本上相当于传统软件测试中的(4);(5)测试,测试一组协同工作的类之间的相互作用。
A、Theinterpersonalrelationship.B、Thehighpressure.C、Theservantsystem.D、Therapidprogress.B原文提到美国人对时间又爱又十艮,后面具体解释原因,答案依
最新回复
(
0
)