高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：外卖垃圾话题.docxVIP

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜外卖垃圾野蛮增长：被塑料淹没的中国 如今，吃外卖已成为了我们的生活方式，但很少有人知道这背后究竟产生了多少塑料垃圾。最近，《纽约时报》对中国外卖行业催生的塑料污染状况进行了报道，称2017年产生的外卖包装废品是两年前的9倍。外卖盒、外卖餐具等带来的塑料污染有多严重？这些塑料垃圾又是如何被处理的？ Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic In all likelihood, the enduring physical legacy of China’s internet boom will not be the glass-and-steel office complexes or the fancy apartments for tech elites. It will be the plastic. The astronomical growth of food delivery apps in China is flooding the country with takeout containers, utensils and bags. Scientists estimate that the online takeout business in China was responsible for 1.6 million tons of packaging waste in 2017, a ninefold jump from two years before. The total for 2018 grew to an estimated two million tons. People in China still generate less plastic waste, per capita, than Americans. But researchers estimate that nearly three-quarters of China’s plastic waste ends up in inadequately managed landfills or out in the open, where it can easily make its way into the sea. Plastic can take centuries to break down undersea. For many overworked or merely lazy people in urban China, the leading takeout platforms Meituan and Ele.me are replacing cooking or eating out as the preferred means of obtaining nourishment. Across China’s major takeout apps, orders worth a combined $70 billion were delivered in 2018, according to the analysis firm iResearch. By comparison, online food delivery sales in the United States are expected to total $19 billion this year, according to Statista. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.drown [dra?n ]vt. ____________________________ 2.enduring [?nd?r??] adj. ____________________________ 3.complex [k?mpleks ]n. ____________________________ 4.astronomical [??str?n?m?k?l ]adj. ____________________________ 5.utensil [ju?tens?l ]n.____________________________ 6.ninefold [na?nf??ld ]adj. ____________________________ 7.generate [d?en?re?t]vt.____________________________ 8.overworked [?