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  3. In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which

In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which

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问题     In 2003, I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves, which they would then casually toss overboard when done. That was OK, because the leaves decayed and the fish ate them all. But in the past decade, he said, plastic wrap had rapidly replaced banana leaves, so the beach was edged with a crust of plastic.
    This is a worldwide problem—we can’t point the finger at Thai fishermen. The UK alone produces more than 170m tons of waste every year, much of it food packaging. Now we live in an absurd age where a packet of cookies can have seven layers of wrapping. While it has revolutionized the way we store and consume food, there is now so much of it that landfills(垃圾填埋场)can’t cope. Some of it is poisonous, and some of it never degrades. It can take 450 years for some types of plastic bottle to break down. Indeed, as Rachelle Strauss of the UK’s ZeroWasteWeek says, we never actually throw anything "away" —it’s really just put somewhere else.
    It’s easy to say despair at the scale of handing the plastic wrap, but it isn’t beyond humanity to solve it—look at how the world took action on CFCs(含氯氟烃): there are signs that the hole in the ozone layer is now closing. Food packaging ought to be a doddle.
    Comment 1
    While as an individual I can do my best to avoid excessive packaging, it is really only government regulation that can force corporation to change their practices.
    Comment 2
    I never understand why supermarket chains insist on covering products such as bananas and cucumbers in plastic wrap. Why? They have their own packaging—the skin or peel!
    Comment 3
    I love packaging—if it’s well designed of course. It helps us be more hygienic and practical. The solution to these packaging necessities is clearly to encourage the use of bio-degradable packaging.
    Comment 4
    Before, everything we threw out was bio-degradable and now it’s not. Guess it’s hard to change that behavior overnight.
The word "doddle"(Para. 3)probably means "something________".
选项 A、no longer useful
B、extremely difficult
C、beyond imagination
D、easily accomplished
答案D
解析 博文第三段第一句提到：大规模地处理塑料包装很容易让人感到绝望，说明塑料垃 圾产生的量之大，之后作者应用转折连词but说明即使塑料垃圾量大人类也是有能力处 理的。随后作者举了人类处理含氯氟烃的化合物的例子来说明此观点。最后提到“处理 食品包装应该是一件______的事”。此句和前面是顺承关系，既然人类可以处理含氯 氟烃的化合物的问题，那么也可以处理塑料包装问题。因此D选项是最贴切的选项。
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