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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 do we learn about the trash recycling system in Shanghai?
选项 A、The residents can throw away the trash at any time.
B、The residents must use bags to take the food waste.
C、Those who don’t follow the regulations will be punished.
D、It’s fine for the residents not to sort the waste.
答案C
解析 细节题。根据题干的system in Shanghai可定位至第三段。A项中的at any time“在任何时候”与原文第三段第二句中的during certain hours“在特定时间”相悖，故排除；B项中的use bags“使用袋子”与原文第三段第三句中的without using bags“不使用袋子”相悖，故排除；C项 Those who don’t follow the regulations will be punished. “那些不遵守规定的人将受到惩罚。”对应原文第三段最后两句。原文提及Pines of up to 200 yuan, roughly $30, await those who don’t sort. “等待那些没有进行垃圾分类的人的是高达200元的罚款(大约为30美元) 。”且And officials threaten to cut off garbage collection for whole communities if they don’t abide by the rules. “如果居民不遵守规则，官员们可能会中断整个社区的垃圾收集。”由此可知C项是对这两句话的概括，为正确选项，同时可以排除D项。一般情况下，如果四个选项中有两个完全相反的选项，则答案往往就是其中一个。故本题答案为C项。
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