Disposing(处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and m

Disposing(处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste-disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult.
During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dumpsite. Residents or trash haulers(垃圾托运者) would transport household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically(定期的) some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by.
Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.
Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. Property is either too expensive or too close to residential(住宅区的)neighborhoods. Long-distance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent.
Awareness of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.
Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city's reusable waste.
【小题1】The most suitable title for this passage would be .A．Places for Disposing WasteB．Waste Pollution DangersC．Ways of Getting Rid of WasteD．Waste Disposal Problem【小题2】During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for .A．burying itB．recycling itC．burning itD．throwing it into rivers【小题3】What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?A．Farm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.B．There is cheap land to bury waste in modem society.C．It is difficult to find space to bury waste in modem society.D．Ways to deal with waste in modem society stay the same.【小题4】 The main purpose of writing this article is to .A．draw people's attention to waste managementB．warn people of the pollution dangers we are facingC．call on people to take part in recycling programsD．tell people a better way to get rid of the wasteD

(答案→)D 解析：【小题1】本题考查对于全文主旨大意地把握并要求考生据此选择最佳标题。文章主要讨论垃圾处理的问题(A项)，至于处理垃圾的地点(B项)、垃圾污染的危害(C项)和处理垃圾的方式(D项)都是垃圾处理问题的一个方面，不能以偏概全。【小题2】细节理解题。recycle意为“循环利用”。对于垃圾的循环利用是近才开始的一项技术，18世纪的时候是没有的。文章二、三段明确提到其余三种垃圾处理方法。【小题3】细节理解题。文章第四段提到landfills(垃圾掩埋法)和long-distance trash hauling(垃圾长途拖运)，可见现代社会人们所使用的垃圾处理方法还和以前一样。【小题4】作者意图推测题。C，D两项很容易排除掉，B项没有提到垃圾处理的问题，偏离文章的主题；所以答案选A。

我明天再问问老师，叫他解释下这个问题