Question

    This story starts with my two kids. We were hiking in the Oakland woods when my daughter noticed some plastic litter in a creek. She looked at me and said, "Daddy? That doesn’t go there”.

When she said that, it reminded me of my summer camp. On the morning of that camping day, right before they’d let our anxious parents come through the gates, our camp director would say Quick! Everyone pick up five pieces of litter, "We got one hundred kids each picking up five pieces, and pretty soon, we got a much cleaner camp. So I thought, why not apply that crowdsourced cleanup model to the entire planet? And that was the inspiration for Literati. The goal is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a picture of a cigarette using Instagram.

Then I took another photo. and another. And at the end of a few days, I had 50 photos on my hone and I had picked up each piece, and I realized that I was keeping a record of the positive impact I was having on the planet. That’s 50 fewer things you might see, or you might step on, or some bird might eat. So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. I realized that Litterati was more than just pretty pictures; we were becoming a community that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who picked up what, a geo-tag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. Gradually, the community grew.

Litter —it's blending into the back ground of our lives. But what if we brought it to the fore front? What if we understood exactly what was on our streets, our sidewalks and our school yards?

How might we use that data to make a difference?

1.From the text we can tell Litterati is probably_______

A. a hi-tech company    B. a reading software

C. a non-profit app    D. a well-known magazine

2.What does the author suggest by mentioning the inspiration from the camping director?

A. Many hands make light work.    B. A good beginning is half done

C. Birds of a feather flock together.    D. A candle lights others and consumes itself.

3.What are the paragraphs following the text likely to deal with?

A. To present the reasons for so much litter

B. To appeal to people to use garbage classification.

C. To tell readers what measures to take to handle litter

D. To show more statistics about what they have done with litter

Answer

1. C

2. A

3. C

【解析】

这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。文章主要讲了作者在宿营时，获得灵感，通过Litterati，号召人们随手捡拾垃圾。

1.推理判断题。根据第二段The goal is to create a litter-free world. Let me show you how it started. I took a picture of a cigarette using Instagram.（我用Instagram拍了一张香烟的照片）以及倒数第三段I realized that Litterati was more than just pretty pictures; we were becoming a community that was collecting data.（我意识到Litterati不只是漂亮的照片；我们正在成为一个收集数据的社区。）由此推断出Litterati可能是一个非盈利性质的应用，故选C。

2.推理判断题。答案定位在倒数第三段So I started telling people what I was doing, and they started participating. I realized that Litterati was more than just pretty pictures; we were becoming a community that was collecting data. Each photo tells a story. It tells us who picked up what, a geo-tag tells us where and a time stamp tells us when. Gradually, the community grew.（所以我开始告诉人们我在做什么，他们开始参与。我意识到Litterati不只是漂亮的照片；我们正在成为一个收集数据的社区。每张照片都讲述了一个故事。它告诉我们谁捡到什么，地理标签告诉我们在哪里，时间戳告诉我们什么时候捡到。渐渐地，社区壮大了。）由此推断出

作者通过提到露营指导的灵感，提出了人多力量大，故选A。

3.推理判断题。最后一段How might we use that data to make a difference?说我们如何利用这些数据来改变现状呢?下文需承接上文，C选项“告诉读者如何处理垃圾”切题，故选C。