A small town in southwest Britain is banning(禁止) plastic bags in an attempt to help the environment and cut waste—a step that environmentalists believe is a first for Europe.
Shopkeepers in Modbury population 1500,agreed to stop handing out disposable plastic bags to customers on Saturday.They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead.
Last month,San Franciso became the first U.S. city to ban plastic grocery bags.Internationally,laws to discourage the use of plastic bags have been passed in parts of South Africa and Ireland,where governments either tax shoppers who use them or fine companies that hand them out.Bangladesh already bans them,and so do at least 30 remote Alaskan villages.
Modbury,about 225 miles southwest of London,has also declared a bag amnesty(寬限期),allowing local people to hand in plastic bags that have piled up at home.They will be sent for traveling.
The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking,who saw the effect of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman.She said response(反應) in the town so far had been “really positive”.
“Modbury is quite an old-fashioned town and a lot of people have wicker baskets to go out shopping anyway,”Hosking told Sky News Television.
The Worldwatch Institute,an environmental research agency,states that 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away each year in the United States alone.More than 500 billion are used yearly around the world.
小題1:What was Rebecca Hosking?
A．A lawyer.B．An environmentalist.
C．A sailor.D．A photographer.
小題2:The underlined word “disposable” in the passage probably means _______.
A．a(chǎn)cceptableB．valuable
C．throw-awayD．long-lasting
小題3:It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A．most of the people in Modbury continue to use plastic bags
B．fewer and fewer plastic bags will be used in the world
C．San Francisco is the first city to ban plastic bags in the world
D．most countries in the world have passed laws to ban plastic bags
小題4:Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A．Environmental Protection
B．Big Cities Banning Plastic Bags
C．Effect of Plastic Bags on Sea Animals
D．British Town Banning Plastic Bags

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D

小題1:這是一道細節(jié)推斷題。根據(jù)第五段“The Modbury ban was the idea of Rebecca Hosking,who saw the effect of bags on marine life while working in the Pacific as a wildlife camerawoman.”可判斷出禁止使用塑料袋的主意是一個女野外攝影師Rebecca Hosking在觀察了塑料袋對海洋生物的影響后提出的，也就是說Rebecca Hosking是個攝影師。
小題2:這是一道詞義推斷題。根據(jù)第二段“They said paper sacks and cloth carrier bags would be offered instead”可判斷出塑料袋將被禁止使用，取而代之的是紙袋和布袋，因為塑料袋是用完即被丟棄，紙袋和布袋可以重復使用，可以推斷出disposable的意思是“可丟棄”的。
小題3:這是一道推理題。文中第三段介紹了除了Modbury外，還有舊金山、Bangladesh、南非和愛爾蘭的部分地區(qū)也開始禁止使用塑料袋，可以推斷出塑料袋在全世界的使用將越來越少。
小題4:這是一道主旨題。本文主要介紹了英國的一個小鎮(zhèn)為了保護環(huán)境，開始禁止使用塑料袋，進而介紹了其他禁止使用的地區(qū)和塑料袋對環(huán)境的不良影響。
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