Question

    We're so attached to plastic, but we're careless consumers. Waste plastic is entering our ecosystems and food chains with untold consequences. Cleaning up our polluted world of plastic may seem a noble, but thankless task. However, some people are seeing economic opportunity in the mission.

Plastic Bank, a social enterprise from Canada, is monetizing plastic recycling while empowering those most affected by the waste. It works to prevent waste plastic from entering oceans by encouraging people in developing countries to collect plastic from their communities in exchange for cash, food, clean water or school tuition for their children. After collection, plastic is weighed, sorted, chipped, melted into balls and sold on as“raw material”to be made into everything from bottles for cleaning products to clothing.

“I saw in large quantities; I saw an opportunity,”CEO David Katz told the audience at the Sustainable Brands Oceans conference in Porto, Portugal on November 14.“We reveal the value in this material,”he added.

Plastic Bank was founded in 2013 and launched on the ground operations in 2014 in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western, Hemisphere, where close to 60% of the population live under the poverty line. As result of poor waste disposal and recycling infrastructure (基础设施)，plastic waste enters rivers or is burned and poses the health threats to the local residents.

The company says i has over 2,000 collectors working in the country, with its full- time collectors on average 63% above the poverty line thanks to the income they make from the project. Through its app based payment system, many collectors now have bank accounts for the first time, and are able to ultimately escape ultra poverty.

“Nothing we're doing is against the laws of physics,”said Katz. “All the technology exists for us to solve and save the world. It's only creative thought.”

1.What is Plastic Bank aimed to do?

A.Test out creative ideas.

B.Discover new material.

C.Promote plastic recycling.

D.Stop people using plastic.

2.Which of the following shows the process of monetizing in Paragraph 2?

A.Purchasing- collecting—recycling.

B.Exchanging collecting—purchasing.

C.Collecting- exchanging—reproducing.

D.Persuading consuming—reproducing.

3.What do the numbers in Paragraph 5 indicate?

A.Haiti attaches great importance to recycling.

B.Many locals benefit greatly from the project.

C.Collecting is an efficient way to recycle waste.

D.The project has solved unemployment in Haiti:

4.What maybe the best title for the text?

A.Companies stand to ban plastic consumption

B.Technology finds its way to kick off poverty

C.David Katz speaks at the conference in Porto

D.Plastic Bank is fighting against plastic waste

Answer

1.C

2.C

3.B

4.D

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。讲述了一家叫Plastic Bank的公司在促进循环利用塑料的同时盈利并给发展中国家的人带来收入的事情。

1.

细节理解题。根据Plastic Bank定位到第二段，根据第二段第一句和第二句“Plastic Bank, a social enterprise from Canada, is monetizing plastic recycling while empowering those most affected by the waste. It works to prevent waste plastic from entering oceans by encouraging people in developing countries to collect plastic from their communities in exchange for cash, food, clean water or school tuition for their children.”可知塑料银行在“monetizing”塑料循环利用，这里的monetizing是生词，但可以根据第二句理解，第二句句意为“它致力于通过鼓励发展中国家的人从他们的社区里收集塑料来交换现金、食物、干净的水或孩子的学费来阻止塑料废品进入海洋”，所以monetizing应该是“变现”的意思，所以塑料银行的目的是促进塑料的循环利用，故选C。

2.

细节理解题。根据monetizing定位到第二段第一句，第二句中的it代指monetizing，介绍了过程，第二句的句意为“它致力于通过鼓励发展中国家的人从他们的社区里收集塑料来交换现金、食物、干净的水或孩子的学费来阻止塑料废品进入海洋”，所以过程为“收集—交换—再生产”，故选C。

3.

推理判断题。数字所在句子为“The company says it has over 2,000 collectors working in the country, with its full- time collectors on average 63% above the poverty line thanks to the income they make from the project.”，意为“这家公司说它拥有2000多名收集者，63%的全职者在贫穷水平线之上，因为他们从这个项目中获得了收入”，所以这些数字的罗列是为了表明许多人从这个项目中受益，故选B。

4.

主旨大意题。根据开头的结尾“However, some people are seeing economic opportunity in the mission.”可知本篇文章是讲一些人在循环利用塑料中发现了商机，而接下来的每一段讲的都是Plastic Bank做的事情，所以这里的一些人指的是塑料银行，且最后一段中提到负责人说他们所做的事情并不违法，而是在拯救世界，故选D。