Disposing (处理) of waste has been a problem si...

Disposing (处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities，the waste disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult.

During the eighteenth century，it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dump site. People would transport household rubbish，rotted wood and old possessions to the site. Regularly some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories and some other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just poured the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.

Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps(垃圾场)， are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable. Farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere，cheap land in major city areas to dispose wastes is nonexistent(不存在的). Awareness of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers，ground water，land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste，however， continues to grow.

Recycling efforts have become commonplace，and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs，however，can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste，so more people should be involved in recycling programs.

1. The most suitable title for this passage would be 　　 .

A. Places for Disposing of Waste

B. Waste Pollution Dangers

C. Ways of Getting Rid of Waste

D. Waste Disposal Problem

2. During the 18th century， people disposed of waste in many ways except for 　　 .

A. burying it 　　　 B. recycling it

C. burning it 　　 D. throwing it into rivers

3. What can be inferred(推断)from the third paragraph？

A. Farm areas will continue accepting waste from the city.

B. There is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.

C. It is difficult to find space to bury waste in modern society.

D. Ways to deal with waste in modern society stay the same.

4. The main purpose of writing this article is to 　　 .

A. select a suitable dump site

B. warn people of the pollution dangers

C. call on people to take part in recycling programs

D. tell people a better way to get rid of the waste

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Since the problem has been solved, I think it is no use 　　　　 about it again.

A. to talk　　 B. talk　　 C. of talking　　 D. talking

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Lots of waste has been dumped into the river，which has led to________.

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The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a discouraging thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history show, hasn’t meant economic freedom.

Employment became widespread when the enclosures（圈地运动）of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by taking them away from the use of the land, and thus from the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people traveled longer distances to their place of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.

Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm（准则）today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between sexes.

It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were kept out — a problem now, as more teenagers disappointed and annoyed at school and more retired people want to live active lives.

All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some efforts and resources away from the utopian（乌托邦）goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

1. From the passage we can learn that ____.

2.Before the enclosures of the 17^th and 18^th, people lived mainly on ____.

3.Before the industrial age women played ____.

4. From the passage we can infer that ____.

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The development of industry has been ______ gradual process throughout ______ human existence, from stone tools to modern technology.

A．不填；the         B．the；a            C．a; 不填           D．a; a

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Scientists have advanced many theories about why human beings cry tears, none of ________ has been proved.

A. which

B. whom

C. them

D. who

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It said the country's confirmed H7N9 cases were isolated and there has been no______ of human-to-human transmission.

A．mark             B．symbol            C．sign              D．signal

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Dave has ________ the company since his father retired.

A. been in charge of                B. been in the charge of

C. taken charge of                    D. taken the charge of

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His sister left home in 1998, and_______ ever since.

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Child labor — the employment of children in industry, often against their will — has been a problem for many years. Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost unchanged today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today employment of children is confined（limited）to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and particularly farms, rather than to large factories.

Girls suffer more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often light, it is often harmful to the health. Recently, children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working conditions. Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the payment going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending school. Therefore, when they become older they are unable to do any other kind of work.

The solution to the problem of child labor is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision（监督）of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of their lives—childhood.

1.Which’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

2.Girls’ work is ____.

3.Young children go to work ____.

4.To solve the problem of child labor, the writer suggests the following BUT ____.

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