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中考问答式阅读专练 1. D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）:（12分） Watching news about the environment on TV can make us feel sad. The problems seem so big that it’s difficult to imagine how individuals (个人) can do anything about them. Rebecca Hosking, however, thought differently. Rebecca is a wildlife camerawoman and she was filming a documentary (纪录片) for the BBC in the Pacific Ocean when she saw something that made her cry – hundreds of dead birds that had died because they had accidentally (意外地) eaten the plastic thrown into the sea. People throw tons of plastic into the sea each year! Beaches on Pacific islands that should have been some of the most beautiful places in the world were covered with plastic toys, drinks bottles, pens, cigarette lighters --- every plastic thing you can think of. Rebecca decided that she had to do something. Back at home she thought about what she could do to help solve the problem of throwaway plastic. In her hometown of Modbury, she asked local shopkeepers if they could do one thing to help. She asked them to stop using plastic bags in their shops. Plastic bags are used everywhere in Britain – every supermarket every corner shop. The numbers are amazing. Britain uses nearly 17 billion plastic bags each year. And the bags can take hundreds of years to break down because they are chemical rather than natural so each year the sea and the environment become more and more polluted. To Rebecca’s surprise, the shopkeepers agreed and Modbury became the first plastic bag free town in Britain. Instead, shops offered reusable cotton bags or biodegradable (生物可降解的) bags. Other towns followed Modbury’s example and towns around Britain and around the world are becoming plastic bag free. It won’t solve all of the world’s environmental problems but it shows that people are becoming active and starting to think about how the little things in their daily lives can have a big effect. It also shows us that there is something we can do and that one person can m