2012年在职硕士联考英语冲刺阅读精篇（十）

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　　To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.Crn365考试网　　The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and resources and messing up the environment.Crn365考试网
& \7 E6 N; Q2 I9 w$ v　　Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.Crn365考试网
" U" \' |4 |5 n9 B8 `; r　　The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs.Crn365考试网
  K: y2 F& d, t' u% Y　　It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.Crn365考试网
　　1. "This overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries." (line 4, Paragraph 1 ) means_____.Crn365考试网
5 G- f. v. m( C" b  U　　A. more wrapping is needed for ordinary productsCrn365考试网
　　B. more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary productsCrn365考试网
　　C. too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary productsCrn365考试网
: Z- ^. @) y/ ~- V9 ~　　D. the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessaryCrn365考试网
, f" {7 K" i5 g+ p# N　　2. Packaging is important to manufacturers because_____.Crn365考试网
　　A. it is easy to use it againCrn365考试网
　　B. shoppers are interested in beautiful packagingCrn365考试网
　　C. they want to attract more shoppersCrn365考试网
: X2 e5 |- V4 C5 W3 _　　D. packaged things will not go rottenCrn365考试网
　　3. According to the passage, dairies are _____.Crn365考试网
$ ^/ W. \2 I" ]; |0 b+ K　　A. experimenting with the use of paper bottlesCrn365考试网
. x. J+ ~2 @- M% P  |　　B. giving up the use of glass bottlesCrn365考试网
　　C. increasing the use of plastic bottlesCrn365考试网
　　D. re-using their paper containersCrn365考试网
　　4. Some environmentalists think that_____.Crn365考试网
　　A. plastic packaging should be made more convenientCrn365考试网
　　B. no alternative can be found to plastic packagingCrn365考试网
8 s+ [) B3 e% v% x9 K) y6 [+ T# b2 A& ~　　C. too much plastic is wastedCrn365考试网
. X4 K) l. E5 B2 ?7 H　　D. shops should stop using plastic containersCrn365考试网
0 ~, o3 ?* C/ s' f　　5. The author thinks that_____.Crn365考试网
0 {4 F: B, \  o( Q　　A. packing is actually useless and could be ignoredCrn365考试网
) I8 f, E. }2 r; F) h  d! @! ]　　B. people will soon stop using packaging altogetherCrn365考试网
　　C. enough research has been done into recyclingCrn365考试网
* P& x* }/ F9 X4 G6 d$ e　　D. it is better to produce new materials than to re-use old onesCrn365考试网
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, I4 q, N$ W; R! k2 @8 u2 j4 b: w; `　　1．C推理题。从该句的后一句"It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not clone up in beautiful wrapping．"可知没有出色包装的物品越来越少。言外之意是不仅仅奢嚣张破鹕泶使通俗物品都使用良多包装。故选C。Crn365考试网
) s. H* I7 K+ \% O2 W7 Z& d$ I" l　　2．C推理题。从文章第二段对So why is it done?的回覆 "…most of the rest is simply competitive selling…"可知大大都包装只是为了促销，即吸引顾客。故选C。Crn365考试网
　　3．C细节题。由文章第三段最后两旬活可知塑料瓶的使用日渐增多．使臣璃纸和纸都受到了威胁，更多的乳品公司在考试考试使用塑料瓶。故选C。Crn365考试网
" ^6 G4 A9 y3 P( {9 P0 |　　4．D推理题。文章第四段第二句话说"一些情形学家说解决塑料容器使用增多这个问题的独一路子就是不使用商铺里的塑料制品"，声名情形学家认为商铺不应该使用塑料制品。故选D。Crn365考试网
　　5．A大旨题。由文章可知，只有少数包装是有用的，绝大大都包装只是为了吸引消费者，而这一设法其实是荒谬的，消费者对包装行不感乐趣；且专家认为解决污染问题的独一路子是商铺内不再塑料包装物，可总结得出：包装行无多大用处，我们可以忽略它，故选A。Crn365考试网