单选题 The wandering ship was a dramatic symbol for a problem plaguing our age. In 1987, the ship, loaded with thousands of tons of New York garbage, spent weeks wandering from one port to another in search of a dump before finally returning home, mission unaccomplished.
New York, like other communities throughout the world is running out of space to put its trash. As throwaway societies, the US and other industrialized countries expect their garbage to be picked up by trucks that magically transported the refuse to some out-of-sight incinerator(焚化炉) or dump. But in the developing counties of Asia, Africa and Latin America, thousands of tons of trash collected daily are thrown into open dumps, where it feeds huge populations of rats that swarm through poor neighborhoods.
"The world is literally swimming in garbage," says a scientist, "Communities worldwide are being forced to confront the problem." Green Peace spokesman Bryan Bence adds, "The crisis in garbage stems in part from the fact that we've ignored long-term disposal problem in favor of cheap quick fixes."
The garbage glut (过选剩) has inspired many communities in the U.S., Japan and Western Europe to start recycling programs. Once considered a curious counter culture activity recycling has moved firmly into the mainstream.
Recycling involves separating usable products from trash, processing them so they can be substituted for more expensive raw materials and returning them to the marketplace as parts of new products. Many countries now have mandatory recycling programs, and others plan to follow the trend soon. Most notably, Japan has stood out as a model and leader of the waste management trend, recycling an estimated 65 percent of its waste. "That's what we should do, to the garbage crisis", says David Antonioli, a staff member with the New York Public Interest Research Corp. "The earth is not a dump!/

单选题 According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A、 The American ship eventually found a port and dumped its garbage before it returned home.
B、 Throwaway societies don't need to transport their refuse and garbage to incinerator because they have a lot of space to put them.
C、 The wandering ship with garbage reflected the fact that garbage problem became very serious.
D、 The huge populations of rats swarm through poor neighborhood in many Western European countries because the garbage is thrown into the open dumps.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】C项意为“那艘漂泊的船只反映了垃圾问题已很严重了”，与文章第一句话“那艘到处漂泊的船只是一个戏剧性的象征，它突出说明了我们这个时代的一个折磨人的问题：全球垃圾危机。” 内容相符。A项错，因为那艘美国船只没有找到倾倒垃圾的港口，原文mission unaccomplished中的mission(使命)意指船只去找其他港口倾倒垃圾一事，但是没有完成使命。B项中throwaway societies本意为“用过了东西就扔掉的社会”，本文是指美国等富裕的国家，指在这些富裕的国家里，人们用过的东西扔掉即可，用不着回收利用。选项B项意为“美国等富裕的国家无须把垃圾运到垃圾场，用焚化炉来烧毁因为他们有足够的空间存放垃圾”，这与第二段第一句“无论是纽约，还是世界上其他国家，都无法找到足够的空间来存放垃圾”不符。D项中老鼠因垃圾成堆而滋生的事儿不是发生在西欧国家，见文章第二段最后一句话：在贫穷的拉丁美洲、亚洲、非洲等某些地方，每天收的垃圾就毫无顾忌地堆放在露天垃圾堆上，致使老鼠滋生，在贫困的地区频频扰民。

单选题 According to Green Peace spokesman Bryan Bence, the crisis in garbage stem in part from ______

单选题 Which of the following statements is NOT true?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】A与第二段第一句话“无论是纽约，还是世界上其他地方，都无法找到足够的空间来存放垃圾”相符：B项与第四段第一句话“垃圾过剩促使日本、美国和西欧的一些国家开始了废物回收利用工程”内容相符。C项为正确项，参看第四段第二句话“在过去，废物的回收利用为一些文化所不接受，但现在这种做法已成为主流。”D项否认了垃圾回收利用为主流做法，因此选D项。