【題目】The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. The foundation is based in the state of Maryland. It was created more than 50 years ago. It teaches people ways to protect the environment.

At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create. Hanna Seligmann works for the foundation. “So let’s figure out what is in our bag of trash.” She shows adults and children how to reduce waste during the holiday gift-giving season. “You can sort it as a cardboard item or you can sort it as a plastic item.” “We encourage using things that are already in your house like newspaper, old magazines, using a gift within a gift.” Urging people to recycle is important in the Washington, D.C., area, because Potomac River, one of the most famous rivers in the country lies there.

“Over time we realized that really just doing trash cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And so it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative (倡議) itself.” says Seligman.

The Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative is an effort by the Alice Ferguson Foundation to support clean agricultural methods. It includes educational programs teaching children about the kinds of pollution that can enter the watershed.

One activity is called the Trash Timeline Game. It teaches children that the things they throw away do not decompose, at the same rate. For example, paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core may take two months to rot. A metal can take up to 100 years.

【1】The Alice Ferguson Foundation ________.

A. devotes itself to keeping citizens engaged in going green

B. deals with relationship between people

C. teaches people how to form groups

D. concerns itself about children’s holidays

【2】At the end of the year, the Alice Ferguson Foundation is busy ________.

A. buying plastic items

B. celebrating Christmas

C. figuring out how much waste was produced

D. educating people to reduce less waste while enjoying Christmas

【3】How to get to the root cause of environmental protection, according to Seligman?

A. Environmental education. B. Doing trash cleanups.

C. Saving water. D. Celebrating holidays less.

【4】What does the underlined word in the last paragraph mean?

A. Give off. B. Break down. C. Come out. D. Pack up.

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】文章介紹致力于保護(hù)環(huán)境的非營(yíng)利組織：愛麗絲弗格森基金會(huì)。這個(gè)基金會(huì)通過設(shè)計(jì)各種活動(dòng)來教育人們樹立環(huán)境保護(hù)觀念。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的描述The Alice Ferguson Foundation is a non-profit group that works to improve the environment by building relationships between people and nature. It teaches people ways to protect the environment.可知，The Alice Ferguson Foundation是一個(gè)非營(yíng)利的組織，致力于通過建立人與自然的和諧關(guān)系改善環(huán)境。它教給人們保護(hù)環(huán)境的方法。故The Alice Ferguson Foundation致力于讓市民投入環(huán)保中，故選A。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段第一句At the end of the year, it designs events to help children celebrate Christmas without increasing the amount of waste they create.可知，在今年末，它設(shè)計(jì)了一項(xiàng)在不增加創(chuàng)造的垃圾量的前提下，幫助孩子們慶祝圣誕節(jié)的活動(dòng)。故D（教育人們?cè)谙硎苁フQ節(jié)的同時(shí)減少垃圾。）符合題意，選D。

【3】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Seligman所說的：“Over time we realized that really just doing trash cleanups was the symptom of the problem, not getting to the root cause. And so it was just a little over a decade ago that we started the initiative (倡議)itself.”（經(jīng)過很多年我們意識(shí)到垃圾清理只是問題的征兆，并不是根本原因。這就是十多年前我們開始倡議的原因。）可推斷，環(huán)境教育才是環(huán)境保護(hù)的根源。故選A。

【4】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)下面例子的內(nèi)容：For example, paper dissolves in about four weeks. An apple core may take two months to rot. A metal can take up to 100 years.（紙?jiān)诖蠹s四個(gè)星期之后分解，蘋果核或許要花2個(gè)月才能腐爛，金屬可能要花100年以上。）可知，劃線單詞所在的句子是說：他們所扔的東西并不是以同樣的速度分解，故選B。

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