晚练册 第3周-【晨读晚记】2023-2024学年高二上学期英语阅读强化训练

Week Three 第3周 晚练 的阅读理解A 原创 The waste management park at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire handles 400,000 tonnes of recycling every year,and is the biggest centre of its kind in the East of England. Fran Hawes is standing on the edge of a 400-tonne mountain of dry recycling,fresh off the bin lorries.She says,"It's a discouraging thing and,for me personally,a huge responsibility." Fran,who started in the role aged 26,takes her job very seriously."I am that annoying person at a party who will get everyone's recycling and make sure everything goes in the right bin,"she admits."That's my job, that's my mission,that's what I do.It allowed me to find my leadership style." Bin loader Richard Hughes and his colleagues clock on at the waste services garage in Peterborough at 6:30 and are out emptying bins within half an hour.Richard works four 12-hour days and admits"the pay's not great,or the conditions-but it's then three days off"to devote to his partner and children. Colleague Crystal Teal has been working as a bin loader for two-and-a-half months."I didn't feel my last job was physical enough so I decided to change and do something completely different,"she says."I decided 'Why not?Be a binman.'It doesn't bother me that men are mainly doing it."Crystal adds:"It can be smelly some days,but go home and have a shower-you'll be all right." Their biggest problem?When householders put the wrong material-like rotting food and nappies-in the recycling bins."It makes me feel angry that they are just putting it out there.We're doing our job to serve them. We are providing a service to take their rubbish away and they can't do their part to put the right things in,"said Richard. "Any problem has a solution-therefore I'm not afraid of a pile of waste,"Fran says."To any normal per- son this might be intimidating.It's a challenge.But this will be gone by Monday morning." How did Fran Hawes make others annoyed at a party? A.Recycling everything in a right way. B.Making everyone recycle a