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1、四川省内江市 2015 高考英语阅读理解一轮练习（4）及答案 阅读理解。 Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling.Recycling in the home is very important of course.However,being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need.We are deali
2、ng with the results of that over-consumption in the greenest way possible,but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place. The total amount of packaging has increased by 12% between 1999 and 2005.It now makes up a third of a typical households waste in
3、 the UK.In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard. Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment.The UK,for example,is running out of it for burying this unnecessary waste.If such packaging is burnt,it gives off greenhouse gases which go o
4、n to cause the greenhouse effect.Recycling helps,but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place.Food waste is a serious problem,too.Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However,few of them are coming round to the idea
5、 that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags,for example. But this is not just about supermarkets.It is about all of us.We have learned to associate packaging with quality.We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality.This is especially true o
6、f food.But it is also applied to a wide range of consumer products,which often have far more packaging than necessary. There are signs of hope.As more of us recycle,we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary materials are collected.We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture,
7、but we have a mountain to climb. 71.What does the underlined phrase“that over-consumption”refer to? A.Using too much packaging. B.Recycling too many wastes.来源:学。科。网 Z。X。X。K C.Making more products than necessary. D.Having more material than is needed. 72.The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show
8、 . A.the tendency of cutting household waste B.the increase of packaging recycling C.the rapid growth of supermarkets D.the fact of packaging overuse 73.According to the text,recycling . A.helps control the greenhouse effect B.means burning packaging for energy C.is the solution to gas shortage D.le
9、ads to a waste of land 74.What can be inferred from Paragraph 4? A.Unpackaged products are of bad quality. B.Supermarkets care more about packaging. C.It is improper to judge quality by packaging. D.Other products are better packaged than food. 75.What can we learn from the last paragraph? A.Fightin
10、g wastefulness is difficult. B.Needless material is mostly recycled. C.People like collecting recyclable wastes. D.The author is proud of their consumer culture. 【答案答案】71-75 DDACA 史地自然型阅读理解(一)-(一) The Pacific island nation of Nauru used to be a beautiful place.Now it is an ecological disaster area.N
11、aurus heartbreaking story could have one good consequenceother countries might learn from its mistakes. For thousands of years，Polynesian people lived in the remote island of Nauru，far from western civilization.The first European to arrive was John Fearn in 1798.He was the British captain of the Hun
12、ter, a whaling ship.He called the island Pleasant Island. However, because it was very remote, Nauru had little communication with Europeans at first.The whaling ships and other traders began to visit，bringing guns and alcohol.These elements destroyed the social balance of the twelve family groups o
13、n the island.A tenyear civil war started，which reduced the population from 1，400 to 900. Naurus real troubles began in 1899 when a British mining company discovered phosphate(磷酸盐)on the island.In fact，it found that the island of Nauru was nearly all phosphate，which was a very important fertilizer fo
14、r farming.The company began mining the phosphate. A phosphate mine was not a hole in the ground；it was a strip mine.When a company stripmined，it removed the top layer of soil.Then it took away the material it wanted.Strip mining totally destroyed the land.Gradually, the lovely island of Nauru starte
15、d to look like the moon. In 1968，Nauru became one of the richest countries in the world.Every year the government received millions and millions of dollars for its phosphate. Unfortunately, the leaders invested the money unwisely and lost millions of dollars.In addition，they used millions more dolla
16、rs for personal expenses.Soon people realized that they had a terrible problemtheir phosphate was running out.Ninety percent of their island was destroyed and they had nothing.By 2000，Nauru was financially ruined.Experts say that it would take approximately$433，600，000 and more than 20 years to repair the island.This will probably never happen. 1What might be the authors purpose in writing the text? ATo seek help for Naurus problems. BTo give a warning to other countrie
