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Before the grass has thickened on the roadsides and leaves have started growi
Before the grass has thickened on the roadsides and leaves have started growi
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2025-03-01
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Before the grass has thickened on the roadsides and leaves have started growing on the trees is a perfect time to look around and see just how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are stained with chewing gum and the ditches are full of discarded fast food packets. Years ago I remember traveling abroad and being saddened by the plastic bags and discarded bottles. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as bad. What has gone wrong?
The problem is that the rubbish created by our increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown away, it stays in the undergrowth(下层灌木) for years.
It is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags have been given to shoppers. These will take anything from 100 to 1 , 000 years to rot. However, it is not as it there is no solution to this. A few years ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-recyclable carrier bags and in three months reduced their use by 90%. When he was a minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry protested, of course. However, they need not have bothered: the idea was killed before it could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away plastic bags.
What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of combined action, both individual and collective, before it is too late. The alternative is to continue
sliding downhill
until we have a country that looks like a vast rubbish tip. We may well be at the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond to their environment. If things around them are clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If they are surrounded by rubbish, they behave like rubbish. Now, much of Britain looks pretty dirty. What will it look like in five years? [br] The expression "sliding downhill" (Para. 4) probably means______.
选项
A、working hard to reduce rubbish
B、producing more plastic bags
C、encouraging people to use plastic bags
D、making things worse by taking no action
答案
D
解析
语义题。根据第四段第二句可知,另一种选择是让情况继续恶化,直到我们的国家看起来像一个巨大的垃圾场,与选项D(不采取行动直至事情变得更糟糕)语意相符。选项A(努力减少垃圾)、选项B(生产更多的塑料袋)和选项C(鼓励人们使用塑料袋)均不符合原文内容。故答案为D。
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