Question

Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines. Today, the average turnover（更換）rate for a computer in the United States is every two years, according to the environmental group, Greenpeace.

The group's Dai Yun says e-waste is a global problem. "The electronic industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away. If no one decides to retrieve the old products and process them properly, the electronic waste will sweep over the earth like the huge wave behind me and pollute the Earth seriously."

Greenpeace works out that 20 to 50 million tons of e-waste are produced globally each year. The components（部件）in many electronic products contain harmful chemicals that pollute ground water and the environment.

At present , the U.S. has no federal law for the disposal (處理) of e-waste although a few states have e-waste recycling programs in place, but there is no law. The U.S. exports much of its e-waste to third world countries, such as India and China, where workers took apart computers for valuable parts, hoping to sell them for money. But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice. "From now on, the recyclers are not very educated. All they know is they can retrieve copper or gold out of it. So, the easiest way to do that is leach (過(guò)濾) it out in an acid or burn it off to retrieve it. So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."

Which of the following is most likely not to be a form of e-waste?

 A. A mobile phone B. A radio  C. An e-bike        D. A table

What does the underlined word "retrieve" (paragraph 2) probably mean?

 A. look into   B. take apart   C. get back   D. throw away

What of the following statements is true according to the passage？

A. The U.S. has strict national laws for dealing with e-waste.

B. Third world countries import e-waste to get valuable parts, which is a safe and easy way to

make money.

C. The way uneducated workers deal with old computers does great harm to the environment as well as to their own health.

D. More and more electronic waste is being wasted and thrown away mainly because of

people's bad habits.

What is the purpose of writing the passage?

A. To attract more people's attention to e-waste.

B. To call on people not to throw away e-waste anywhere.

C. To tell people what e-waste is and how to deal with it well.

D. To warn people to break away from the electronic industry.

The next paragraph probably concerns_______.

A. how to deal with e-waste properly

B. how to protect ourselves from harm by e-waste

C. How to slow down the development in the electronic industry

D. how to make full use of e-waste

Answer 1

【小題1】D

【小題2】C

【小題3】C

【小題4】A

【小題5】A

解析:

【小題1】 本題考查理解文章細(xì)節(jié)信息的能力。由第一段 ''Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to electronic products that are no longer usable. This can include TVs, cell phones and computers and other office electronics, electronic toys and videos machines.''可知答案為D.

【小題2】本題考查根據(jù)上下文信息判斷詞語(yǔ)含義的能力。結(jié)合上下文可知, retrieve的意思為 "回收", 本句的意思為: 如果沒(méi)有人回收并合理地加工電子廢物, 那么我們的地球上就會(huì)布滿廢物, 就會(huì)嚴(yán)重的危害我們的地球。

【小題3】本題考查根據(jù)文章相關(guān)段落進(jìn)行正誤判斷的能力。由最后一段中 "So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."可知C項(xiàng)表述正確, 符合題意。由最后一段首句可排除A項(xiàng)；由 "But harmful wastes expert, Dr. Bakul Rao, says that's a dangerous practice."可排除B項(xiàng)；由第二段 "The high speed of growth in this industry means more and more electronic products are being wasted and thrown away."可排除D項(xiàng)。

【小題4】本題考查根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷作者寫作意圖的能力。本文主要講述了電子廢物的是一個(gè)全球性問(wèn)題, 至今還沒(méi)有統(tǒng)一的法律法規(guī)來(lái)處理它們, 處理方式的滯后和不科學(xué)時(shí)刻危及著我們的生存環(huán)境, 因此作者呼吁人們對(duì)這一問(wèn)題引起足夠的重視。

【小題5】本題考查根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容進(jìn)行推理判斷的能力。由最后一段最后 “So, that's where they don't know how to deal with it, neither do they have any health systems in place. So, their exposure is more."可以推出下面很可能要講如何正確處理電子廢物。