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     Now all Chinese sellers no longer provide free plastic shopping bags. China tries to cut the use of plasticbags in order to cut energy  consumption (能源消耗) and pollution.

     "Customers are encouraged to carry their own bags," an official with the Ministry of Commerce, Men Xiaowei,said in an online interview earlier. "It is a habit revolution(改革). To cut the use of plastic bags is to protect our environment.

     "Chinese have enjoyed free plastic shopping bags for more than 10 years. Those shopping bags used to be very helpful to Chinese shoppers. However,they also caused many problems to the environment.

     Accordin8 to the National Development and Reform Commission(国家发改委) ,every two people would use at least one plastic bag one day. At least l,300 tons of oil must be used every day to produce plastic shopping bags for supermarkets alone.

     " Plastic  bags are difficult to be  degraded (降解 ) , " Men said. " Most of the daily waste came from plastic bags, " Customers have begun to pay 0. 2 yuan for small sized plastic bags and more than 10 yuan for fabric (织物)ones.

1. Why does China cut .the use of plastic bags?

                                                      

2. According to the words of Men Xiaowei,using plastic bags used to be Chinese people's            .

3. How many plastic bags might be used by ten people one day in China?

                                                      

4, How much should customers pay for one small-sized plastic bag?

                                                      

答案

1. In order to cut energy consumption and pollution.

2. habit

3. 5/Five.

4. 0. 2 yuan.

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填空题


The central problem of economics is to satisfy the people’s and nation’s wants. The problem we are faced with is that our (1) , here identified as money, are (2) . The only way we can resolve our (3) is to make choices. After looking at our resources, we must examine our list of (4) and identify the things we need (5) , those we can postpone, and (6) we cannot afford. As individuals, we face the central problem involved in economics — deciding just how to allocate our limited resources to provide ourselves with the greatest (7) of our wants.
Nations face the same problem. As a country’s population (8) , the need for more goods and services grows (9) . Resources necessary to production may increase, but there are (10) enough resources to satisfy the total desires of a (11) . Whether the budget meeting is taking place in the family living-room, in the conference room of the corporation (12) of directors, or in the chamber of the House of Representatives in Washington, the basic problem still exists. We need to find (13) of allocating limited resources in order to satisfy unlimited wants.
A short time ago, economists divided goods into two categories, free and economic. The former, like air and water, were in (14) abundance that economists had no concern about (15) of scarcity and what to do about it. Today many of these "free goods" are in (16) very expensive to use. Pollution has made clean air and water expensive for producers who have to filter their waste products, for consumers who ultimately pay for the producers’ extra costs, and (17) tax-payers who pay for the government’s involvement in cleaning the environment.
In the 1990s, almost all goods are (18) . Only by effort and money can they be (19) in the form people wish.
Meeting the needs of people and the demands from resources available leads to the basic activity of production. In trying to (20) unlimited wants from limited economic goods, production leads to new problems in economics.

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