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Trash is the talk of Shanghai. Starting Monday, the city will require residents and businesses to sort their waste and recyclabl

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问题     Trash is the talk of Shanghai. Starting Monday, the city will require residents and businesses to sort their waste and recyclables into separate bins. The task is towering; Shanghai generates more than 9 million metric tons of garbage every year and—like every other city, town and village in China—it lacks even a fundamental municipal recycling system.
    As far back as 2000, the Chinese government designated eight cities, including Shanghai, to pilot municipal recycling programs. They all failed miserably. Not only did the cities lack the equipment and facilities to recycle, residents were given no incentives to sort their trash or education in why it was so important. This ignorance persists. A 2018 survey of 3,600 residents of major Chinese cities found that nearly three-quarters could not identify how to properly sort their trash for recycling.
    Importantly, the system in Shanghai is uniquely public and punitive. Residents can only dispose of waste during certain hours, ensuring that neighbors will see who is and who isn’t sorting properly. They must empty food waste into public bins without using bags, so everyone can also see what they’re throwing away. Pines of up to 200 yuan, roughly $30, await those who don’t sort. And officials threaten to cut off garbage collection for whole communities if they don’t abide by the rules.
    At the same time, Shanghai has spent weeks using every possible propaganda tool at its disposal, from social media to local and even national newspapers, to explain how and why residents should recycle. On Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media service, the subject has repeatedly trended, with reports that the new regulations apply to foreign tourists as well proving particularly popular. Younger Chinese seem to have favorable opinions of the program, though they fear it will be time-consuming.
    Far more will be required. Shanghai and other cities have yet to build the infrastructure needed to manage even properly sorted waste. They require trucks designed to carry sorted recyclables: large, industrial-scale recycling facilities; and environmentally sound incineration and composting sites for the "residual" and organic wastes. This will require years and billions in investment.
    Still, the fact that Shanghai has residents thinking and talking about waste on social media and at home is remarkable progress. It’s also a lesson to other developing countries that the first step in creating a modern waste management system is to educate the public and foster a sense that recycling is a collective civic responsibility. If the world is going to clean up its trash heaps, Shanghai’s new program could well be the model.
What can we learn from Paragraph 5?
选项 A、There is still a long way to go for Shanghai’s trash recycling program.
B、Shanghai is well prepared for handling sorted trash.
C、Large industrial-scale recycling facilities have been built for the " residual" and organic wastes in Shanghai.
D、Shanghai needs to design trucks to carry sorted waste.
答案A
解析 推理题。根据题干可定位至第五段。根据第五段首句Far more will be required. “还需要更多”和尾句This will require years and billions in investment. “这需要数年和数十亿的投资。”可知，上海的垃圾分类体制尚不完善，故A项正确；B项中的well prepared for“准备好”与原文have yet to build“尚未建成”相悖，故排除；C项与原文第五段第三句中的and environmentally sound incineration and composting sites for the "residual" and organic wastes. 不符，属于偷换概念，故排除；D项中的design trucks与原文第五段第三句中的They require trucks designed to carry sorted recyclables不符。原文意思是require trucks“需要卡车”，而不是needs to design trucks“需要设计卡车”，故排除。故本题答案为A项。
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