Jiang Nan, a full-time mother in Beijing, keeps a dozen or so cloth bags at home, carefully selecting one or two before heading out to get groceries. "Most of them were giveaways from advertising marketing campaigns, but others had been handed out in the street by various environmental protection organizations," she explained.
　　Since June 2008 China has forbidden the production, sale and usage of plastic bags thinner than 0.025 millimeter (毫米), and retailers (零售商) are not allowed to provide free plastic bags to their customers, no matter how thick they are.
　　Many Chinese consumers like Jiang have learned to refuse plastic bags whenever possible in their shopping. "A plastic bag may only cost a few jiao, but it's more about how bad they are for the environment," Jiang said.
　　The plastic ban is for the most part well carried out in big cities, and has been obviously effective in reducing white waste. On the first anniversary of the plastic ban Global Village of Beijing, an NGO environmental organization, shows that during the year of the ban the consumption of plastic bags fell by about 40 billion pieces in chain supermarkets alone, saving more than 1.2 million tons of petrol.
　　However, enforcement (實施) shows rather less muscle in smaller cities, towns and countryside. In a remote town like Lichuan, the awareness of environmental protection is not as strong as that in big cities. Street vendors (街頭小販) worry that they are likely to lose customers if they charge them for plastic bags. Seeing no significance in the issue, local government often turn a blind eye to banned bag trade in the market.
　　There are still those who don't have an interest in living green. Cui Lin, another Beijinger, often forgets to bring a cloth bag when shopping, and has to buy plastic bags. "Anyway I think plastic bags are neater and cleaner, and I don't mind paying a couple more jiao," he shrugged.
　　Mrs Yu, a vegetable vendor in Lichuan County, Jiangxi Province, recalled that before plastic bags became popular in the early 1990s, Chinese people always carried a bamboo basket when they visited the market. "Plastic bags are more convenient," she comments, and her view might be that of the tens of millions of people in the nation who still cling to plastic bags, paid or free. This is suggested by her trade where piles of plastic bags are still passed out every day.
小題1: In Paragraph 1, the writer uses Jiang Nan's case to __________.
A．introduce a topic B．tell a story
C．describe a person D．offer an argument
小題2:How did Jiang Nan get her cloth bags?
A．She bought them at a low price.
B．She borrowed them from her relatives.
C．She got them for free.
D．She made them herself.
小題3:Which is NOT the reason why some people still use plastic bags when shopping?
A．Cloth bags are difficult to get and heavy to carry.
B．People's awareness of environmental protection is not strong enough.
C．People don't mind paying a couple more jiao for plastic bags.
D．Street vendors worry that they are likely to lose customers if they charge them.
小題4:What does the underlined phrase “cling to” in the last paragraph mean?
A．stop usingB．continue to useC．stay close toD．hold tightly
小題5:What message does the writer mostly convey in the passage?
A．To reduce white waste is urgent.
B．The plastic bag ban has achieved great success.
C．There is still a long way to go for the plastic bag ban.
D．People's awareness of environmental protection should be stressed.

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:A
小題4:B
小題5:C

試題分析：文章回顧了限塑令實施一周年以來在取得的成效，在大城市人們能夠積極響應(yīng)，但是在一些小鎮(zhèn)人們的環(huán)保意識沒有那么強，限塑令的實施還有很長的路要走。
小題1:寫作手法題：文章第一段介紹Jiang Nan在家里放布袋，購物前會帶上，目的是引出下面的使用塑料袋的話題，選A
小題2:細節(jié)題：從文章第一段"Most of them were giveaways from advertising marketing campaigns, but others had been handed out in the street by various environmental protection organizations," she explained.的句子，可知她的布袋是免費得來的，選 C
小題3:細節(jié)題：從第五段的句子：the awareness of environmental protection is not as strong as that in big cities. 可知B是對的，從第六段的句子："Anyway I think plastic bags are neater and cleaner, and I don't mind paying a couple more jiao," he shrugged.可知C是對的，從第五段的句子：Street vendors (街頭小販) worry that they are likely to lose customers if they charge them for plastic bags.可知D是對的，選A
小題4:猜詞題：從最后一段的句子："Plastic bags are more convenient," she comments, and her view might be that of the tens of millions of people in the nation 可知這些人認為塑料袋方便，還是會繼續(xù)使用，選B
小題5:寫作意圖題：從第五段的句子：However, enforcement (實施) shows rather less muscle in smaller cities, towns and countryside.可知作者主要想傳達的意思是禁止使用塑料袋還是有很長的路要走，選C
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