Question

    Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes and shoes than ever before. In Britain, the average person spends more than £1,000 on new clothes a year, which is around four percent of their income.1.But it hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment. First, a lot of that consumer spending is via credit cards. British people currently owe approximately £670 per adult to credit card companies. That's 66 percent of the average wardrobe budget. Also, not only are people spending money they don't have, they're using it to buy things they don't need.2..

People might not realize they are part of the disposable clothing problem because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities.3.Huge quantities end up being thrown away, and a lot of clothes that charities can't sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.

4.The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US, where it became a rejection of the overspending and overconsumption of Black Friday and Cyber Monday during Thanksgiving weekend.5.Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organize the exchange and repair of items they already own. They send a clear message to companies that people are no longer willing to accept the environmental and human cost of overconsumption.

A.Fast fashion' goes out of fashion as quickly as it came in and is often too poor quality to recycle;

B.Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill sites.

C.The British people are deeply shocked by the unexpected statistics.

D.On Buy Nothing Day people organize various types of protests and cut up their credit cards.

E.However, a 'buy nothing' trend is springing up in opposition to consumerism.

F.That might not sound like much.

G.But charity shops can't sell all those unwanted clothes.

Answer

1.F

2.B

3.G

4.E

5.D

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。商家、媒体鼓吹的消费主义使英国人买很多不需要的新衣服，与之相反的“不消费日”逐渐兴起，文章对此作了介绍。

1.

空前提到“在英国，每人一年平均要花费超过1000英镑买新衣服，大约是他们收入的百分之四”，F项“那听起来可能不是很多”承接上文，与下文“但是它隐含了两个对社会和对环境令人担心的多的事实”之间是转折关系，上下文衔接紧密，F项中it指代空前一句中“more than £1,000”，故选F项。

2.

空前提到“人们不但把钱花在没有的东西上，他们也花钱买他们不需要的东西”，B项“英国一年要扔掉300,000吨衣服，大部分都去了垃圾填埋场”对空前提到的“花钱买不需要的东西”具体说明，故选B项。

3.

空前提到“人们没有意识到他们自己也是随意处理衣服问题的一部分，因为他们把不想要的衣服捐给慈善机构”，G项“但是慈善商店不能卖这些所有不想要的衣服”与空后“大量的最终被扔掉”是讲慈善机构对人们捐的衣服的处理办法，上下文衔接紧密，G项中“charity”和“those unwanted clothes”都与上下文呼应。故选G项。

4.

空处位于句首，是段落主题句，根据本段内容“这个想法源于20世纪90年代早期的加拿大，然后传播到美国，它成为一种对过度花费和过去消费的抵制，在感恩周期间黑色星期五和网购星期一人们会过度消费”可知，E项“然而，一种与消费主义相反的“不消费”趋势开始出现”切题，空后是对“不消费”趋势的解释说明，空后的“The idea”指代E项中“a 'buy nothing' trend”，故选E项。

5.

空后“在全年的时间里，“不消费”群体组织现有东西的交换和维修”是讲述“不消费”群体具体做什么，D 项“在“不消费日”，人们组织各种类型的抗议活动，并且减少他们的信用卡”也是说人们的做法，上下文衔接自然，D项红“Buy Nothing Day”与本段内容呼应。故选D项。