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【題目】All animals produce waste. We call it “waste,” but we all know it can be very useful. In some parts of the world, animal waste, or poop, is collected, dried, and burned for cooking and heating. 【1】

The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Center has an unusual way of using animal “waste.” The center’s 40 pandas produce about two tons of poop a day. This material is being turned into a new product called Panda Poop Paper. 【2】 After all, paper is made from plant fiber, which cannot be digested and simply goes through the body as waste.

Since pandas eat nothing but bamboo, their “waste” is perfect paper material. 【3】

Their stomachs haven’t fully developed for their vegetarian diet, so their bodies make use of just 20% of what they eat. The other 80% comes out as poop: very high in fiber and perfect for paper.

Once the poop is collected, it is cleaned with chemicals, crushed(碾碎), and put into frames(框架) to dry. 【4】 Because of its good quality as well as the worldwide popularity of the panda, gift products made from the paper sell well.

【5】They got the idea from the elephant dung(大象糞) paper made at Elephant Conservation Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. And Creative Paper Wales in the U.K. sell paper gifts made from sheep waste.

A. But do you know some paper from poop?

B. Where does the paper come from?

C. After these steps, good, strong paper comes into being.

D. Moreover, there is more special about pandas.

E. It’s not really that strange!

F. Yet, the Chinese weren’t the first people producing paper from animal waste.

G. Farmers have been using animal and human waste for a long time.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】E

【3】D

【4】C

【5】F

【解析】

試題分析：本文屬于說(shuō)明文，文章以熊貓的糞便被制作成為紙張為例，介紹了動(dòng)物的糞便可以有其他的用途。

【1】A 根據(jù)In some parts of the world, animal waste, or poop, is collected, dried, and burned for cooking and heating.可知，很多動(dòng)物的糞便有其他的用途。文章接下來(lái)介紹熊貓的糞便被制作成為紙張，故A項(xiàng)“但是你聽(tīng)過(guò)由糞便制成的紙張嗎？”承接上下文。

【2】E 根據(jù)后一句中的After all paper is made from plant fiber可知，由于紙張本來(lái)就是由纖維組成的，因此用纖維含量高的熊貓糞便制作紙張也就不足為奇。故E項(xiàng)正確。

【3】D 接下來(lái)介紹的“熊貓只能吸收其所吃的20%，剩余80%富含纖維的食物都隨糞便排出體外”是熊貓的一個(gè)特殊優(yōu)勢(shì)。故D項(xiàng)正確。

【4】C 根據(jù)上一句中的collected, cleaned, crushed和dry可知，經(jīng)過(guò)這些程序后，熊貓的糞便被制作成為非常好用且結(jié)實(shí)的紙張。故C項(xiàng)正確。

【5】F 根據(jù)下一句They got the idea from the elephant-dung paper made at the Elephant Conservation Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand 可知，咱們中國(guó)并不是第一個(gè)想到用動(dòng)物糞便制作紙張的國(guó)家。故F項(xiàng)正確。