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Week Four 自然环境 一、阅读理解（共16小题；共32.0分） A WARANGAL, India, Nov 22 (IPS)—In a country notorious for the inability to deal with the waste it generates, municipal officials in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are now resorting to making waste management a competitive sport, in their bid to cajole the entire nation to clean up. The historic city of Warangal recently hosted 386 teams from 57 municipalities across the northern half of Andhra Pradesh—the largest state in south India and the fourth largest in the country—competing for the best performance trophy in collection and disposal of household wastes. Waste segregation and recycling might be old hat in most countries, but in India, where cities are growing exponentially, negligence, administrative mismanagement and lack of infrastructure have resulted in open dumping in over 90 percent of cities and towns countrywide. The idea of handling waste management through sport came to environmental activist Uday Singh after watching an Indian Premier League cricket game. We wanted to try and harness the spirit of competition and sportsmanship that India displays in cricket, for public health, Singh said. Each team thereafter consisted of a guest municipalitys Sanitary Inspector as team leader and two guest staff accompanied by three officials from the host city. Pushing trolleys door to door between the hours of seven and eleven every morning, each team was given a score based on how it handled the collection process. Teams unloaded trolleys full of waste at the collection centre in the towns water tower premises before continuing on their rounds. Collection staff varied from municipal tractor-drivers and cleaners to garbage-pickers employed by the municipality. The aim was to train all municipal staff so that they go back to their constituencies and spread awareness, Saheb told IPS. The competition caught th