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七选五专题
山东省德州市2020-2021学年高三上学期期中考试英语试题
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The drop in garment prices over the last 20 years has allowed us to buy more and more clothes. We now have 5 times more clothes than our grandparents had. 36
It has become a challenge to wear a garment more than five times. Garment quality is declining every year. As a result? our clothes immediately look faded or shapeless not long before purchasing them. 37 We continue to purchase just to stay up to date. Fast fashion has become a monster in our closets.
What's more, chemicals used in every part of the textile production are greatly harmful. Even clothes made of “100% natural fiber still contain a lot of chemicals.
38 The fashion industry is also the second largest polluter in the world just after the oil industry. In most countries where garments are produced? waste waters from textiles factories are dumped directly into the rivers. Some of them even reach the sea and eventually spreads around the globe.
Clothing has clearly become disposable. 39 A family in the western world throws away an average of 30 kg of clothing each year. Only 15% is recycled or donated, and the rest goes directly to the landfill or is burned. It is also fueling our environmental concern.
How can we avoid the environmental impact from the fashion industry? 40 A root of the problem lies in our excessive consumerism. Buy better quality. They often last long and good for the environment. Donate your second-hand garments to charity instead of throwing them in dustbins. Whatever your option, you are doing your part in saving our planet.
A. We don't have many greener options in the fashion industry.
B. As a result, we generate more and more textile waste.
C. They can present a real danger to our health.
D. Trends are changing so quickly that we cannot keep up.
E. Think twice before throwing away your second-hand garments.
F. To achieve the goal? we should first reflect on our lifestyle and buy less.
G. This, in tu