限时练19 阅读理解+完形填空-【红对勾】2023版新高考英语二轮复习讲与练

第一部分　 题型组合限时练 　 　 　 　 限时练 19　 阅读理解+完形填空 (时间:30 分钟) Ⅰ、阅读理解 (2022·常德二模) More than half a trillion dollars. That􀆳s the estimated value of all the stuff that US shoppers bought last year only to return it—more than the economy of Israel or Austria. We tried new brands with unfamiliar sizes after seeing them on TikTok. We overbought for the holidays, and we shopped overly online, where returns are between two and five times more likely than that from stores. Where does it all go? Take the blanket I bought on holiday sale for example. I opened the package, only to discover it was just too small for my new sofa. So I returned it. Sorry, blanket! What will happen to it? “Your blanket is very likely to be in a landfill,” says Hitendra Chaturvedi, a supply chain management professor at Arizona State University. “That is what consumers don􀆳t realize—the life of a return is a very, very sad path. ” Value is the big threshold (门槛): Is the product worth the cost of shipping back and paying someone to inspect, clean, repair or test? Experts estimate that retailers (零 售商) throw away about 25% of their returns. Every year, US returns create almost 6 billion pounds of landfill waste. Many others get resold in discount and outlet stores. Some go to sellers on websites. Some get donated to charity or recycled. “These options have increased over the past decade, allowing more and more returns to find a new home,” says Marcus Shen, chief operating officer of B-Stock, a platform where retailers can rese