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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 plastics industry in Britain protested because______.
选项
A、a tax was proposed on non-recyclable carrier bags
B、supermarkets no longer gave away plastic bags
C、they were blamed for causing plastic pollution
D、the government did not support them
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据第三段第五句和第六句可知,迈克尔-米彻试图学习爱尔兰政府,对不可回收购物袋征税,但这一做法引起了塑料行业的抗议。选项A(对不可回收购物袋征税)符合原文内容。选项B(超市不再赠送塑料袋)文中没有提到。选项C(塑料行业被指责产生塑料污染)是事实,不是抗议的原因。选项D(政府不支持他们)文中未提及。故答案为A。
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