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(2020·长沙市四校高三模拟)
Reducing，reusing，and recycling is a way of life in Sweden.Recycling is required by law and garbage is sorted at home before it goes to a recycling center. Recyclables are sorted into seven categories and recycling stations are within just 300 meters of all residential areas. “ Recycling almost everything is a must in Sweden now. It actually feels very uncomfortable when you visit another country and can't find easy ways to recycle，” said Owen Gaffney，an expert at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth.
But not all of its garbage is recycled. Sweden uses alternatives that include incinerating garbage to make electricity instead of using fossil fuels (化石燃料) to heat 1.2 million homes. About half of household garbage is sent to one of the 33 wastetoheat plants. Sweden is importing garbage from other countries to keep these plants running. Sweden is also a world leader in turning food waste into ecofriendly biogas. It has made food waste collection compulsory beginning in 2021. There is a food waste biogas plant，which allows biogas to be used to run public buses and to heat apartment buildings.
Sweden now wants to deal with those remaining items that cannot be recycled by using a circular(循环论证的) economy approach. It means that products can be reused and only recycled when absolutely necessary. The Swedish government formed an advisory group to find a way of making this part of its environmental policy.
This will not work effectively unless people are taught to change their behavior. Now the government is reforming its tax code so that people could get cheaper repairs or buy used things.The large Swedish clothing retailer (零售商) H&M operates a recycling program that gives customers discounts when they bring back old clothing.
Sweden is fighting climate change by doing all the right stuff. Waste recycling and the plans to switch to a circular economy will go a long way in reducing its carbon footprint and will help stop global warming.
语篇解读 在瑞典，减少、再利用和回收是一种生活方式。瑞典政府鼓励人们回收和使用二手商品，废品先分类，再回收。
1．What do we know about Sweden?
A．Sweden imports household garbage for biogas.
B．It is convenient to recycle things in Sweden.
C．Half of garbage in Sweden is used to produce heat.
D．Everything is recycled after being used in Sweden.
B [考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“Recyclables are sorted into seven categories and recycling stations are within just 300 meters of all residential areas”可知，在瑞典回收物品是很方便的。]
2．What does the underlined word in paragraph 2 mean?
A．Burning. B．Treating.
C．Throwing. D．Reusing.
A [考查词义猜测。根据第二段的第二句可知，瑞典通过焚烧化石燃料的替代品——垃圾——来发电，为120万个家庭供热。画线词incinerating的意思是“焚烧”，与“Sweden now wants...approach”和burning同义。]
3．What does the advisory group do?
A．Teach people how to save fossil fuels.
B．Conduct a survey about the local economy.
C．Offer advice on environmental policy.
D．Make sure the citizens recycle wisely.
C [考查推理判断。根据第三段中的“Sweden now wants...approach”和“The Swedish government formed an advisory group to find a way of making this part of its environmental policy”可知，瑞典政府成立了一个咨询小组，目的是找到一个方法使通过循环经济法处理不能被回收利用的产品的做法成为政府环境政策的一部分，即咨询小组的职责就是为环境政策提供建议。]
4．How does the government encourage its citizens to reuse?
A．It provides various recycling programs.
B．It cuts down taxes on new products.
C．It gives discounts to regular buyers.
D．It offers lower prices for repairs.
D [考查细节理解。根据倒数第二段中的“Now the government is reforming its tax code so that people could get cheaper repairs or buy used things”可知，政府正在改革其免税代码，以便使维修更便宜，并鼓励人们购买二手商品。 ]
