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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 revolutionised the way we store and consume food, there is now so much of it that landfills (垃圾填埋场) can not 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 Zero Waste Week says, we never actually throw anything "away"—it’ s really just put somewhere else.
    It’ s easy to despair at the scale of handling 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 corporations 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.
"A packet of cookies" is mentioned in Paragraph 2 to_________.
选项 A、illustrate the problem of excessive packaging
B、introduce the revolutionary way of packaging
C、review the gradual development of packaging
D、emphasize the necessity of food packaging
答案A
解析 推理题。题目问“第二段中提到的‘饼干的包装’的目的是什么?”定位到文章第二段第三句：我们生活在一个连一袋饼干都需要七层包装的荒谬时代。说明作者对过度包装是心怀不满的，故选A。
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