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American Incentive Student of University Economizes a Commissary The once-seen-everywhere cafeteria tray .with so many glass

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问题           American Incentive Student of University Economizes a Commissary
    The once-seen-everywhere cafeteria tray .with so many glasses of soda, juice and milk lined up across the fop, could soon join the typewriter as a campus relic. Scores of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the trays in hopes of conserving water, cutting food waste and saving money. Some even believe trayless cafeterias could help avoid the dreaded "freshman 15" the number of pounds supposedly gained in the first year on campus.
    The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a research organization that tracks environmental practices at the 300 colleges and universities with the largest endowments, said that 126 of them had reduced use of trays, some of them getting rid of trays only in certain dining halls,and some introducing,for example, "trayless Tuesdays". Such moves are often part of a larger push to embrace environmental ism that includes hiring susta-inability coordinators, introducing solar panels, disposing dining-hall waste and encouraging students to turn off lights with attractive sayings.
    Joseph H. Spina, executive director of the National Association of College and University Food Services, described trayless dining as "sort of the hot thing right now", officials said their decision to go trayless was mainly about atmosphere, though they welcomed any ecological benefit. But while the environ-mental benefits are real, going trayless is not a cure-all. At Skidmore.the all-you-can-eat format and multiple food stations, featuring vegetables, Italian and classic comfort foods, encourage students to look around,taking a bit of this and a little of that. But this system also leads to overcrowded dining halls as diners return to the lines for seconds.
    As part of her senior honors thesis,Sarah Whateley, an environmental studies major, conducted a research project to demonstrate how much food was still wasted in the dining hall. She asked students to put their leftovers into plastic bins over two days, yielding 330 pounds of food on a Sunday and 403 pounds on a Monday. The food services staff then illustrated that quantity by stacking the equivalent weight in boxes of rice in the entrance of the dining hall.
    Dr. Spina, of the college food service association, cited another benefit: " You eventually have to learn how to hold your hors d’oeuvre and cocktail in one hand while
making conversation with the other. So it’s a life lesson."
What can we infer form Dr. Spina’s citation?
选项 A、Party and conversation are part of life.
B、Without trays, people begin to learn to hold food in hand.
C、Getting rid of trays is a great step forward for college students.
D、Holding trays in hand may not look so graceful.
答案D
解析 推理判断题。由题干中的Dr．Spina’s citation定位到最后一段。这段引用的话字面意思是：你最终将会学会用一只手举着鸡尾酒和开胃菜，用另一只手来诠释自己的话语，所以说，这是生活的知识。可见，现实生活的聚会中，没有人举着大托盘菜在跟人聊天。所以[D]“手里举着个大托盘看上去可不怎么优雅”为正确答案。文章的重点在讲托盘，所以[A]“聚会和谈话是生活的一部分”与文章主题没有关系，故排除；没有托盘了，人们还会用其他的容器，而不会是[B]“学会用手拿食物”，故排除；整篇文章是在讲学校推行无托盘食堂的情况，而不是说[C]“没有了托盘，学生有了一次大的进步”，故排除。
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