Question

We produce 500 billion of plastic bags in a year worldwide and they are thrown away polluting oceans,  killing wildlife and getting dumped in landfills where they take up to 1000 years to decompose. Researchers have been unsuccessfully looking for a solution.
The 16-­year ­old Canadian high school student, Daniel Burd, from Waterloo Collegiate Institute,
has discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(分解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada－Wide Science Fair, a $10 000 prize, a $20 000 scholarship, and a chance to revolutionize a major environmental issue.
Burd's strategy was simple: Since plastic does eventually degrade, it must be eaten by microorganisms (微生物). If those microorganisms could be identified, we could put them to work eating the plastic much faster than under normal conditions.
With this goal in mind, he ground plastic bags into a powder and concocted(调制) a solution of household chemicals, yeast(酵母) and tap water to encourage microbes growth. Then he added the plastic powder and let the microbes work their magic for 3 months. Finally, he tested the resulting bacterial culture on plastic bags, exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control. Sure enough, the plastic exposed to the live bacteria was 17% lighter than the control after six weeks.
The inputs are cheap: maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because microbes produce heat as they work, and the only outputs are water and tiny levels of carbon dioxide.
“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have piles of plastic bags falling on top of me. One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags. The answer: not much. So I decided to do something myself.” said Daniel Burd.
小题1:Daniel Burd won first prize at the Canada－Wide Science Fair because________.

A．he found a new kind of microorganism

B．he contributed much to environmental protection

C．he found a way to degrade plastics in shorter time

D．he could encourage microbes growth in an easier way

小题2:Daniel Burd exposed one plastic sample to dead bacteria to ________.

A．make the live bacteria work better

B．test how effective his method was

C．know which bacteria worked faster

D．control the temperature in the process

小题3:Maintaining the required temperature takes little energy because ________.

A．plastics can get hot easily

B．microbes can produce heat themselves

C．much carbon dioxide is produced

D．the temperature can be controlled

小题4:Daniel Burd got his idea from ________.

A．his school textbook	B．the failure of researchers
C．his everyday work	D．the practice of other people

Answer 1

小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:C

试题分析：本文是关于环保的一篇文章。主要讲述了一个加拿大的高中生，发现了一种能够快速降解塑料的方法，并因此获奖的故事。
小题1:细节理解题。从文章第二段“...has discovered a way to make plastic bags degrade(分解) in as few as 3 months, a finding that won him first prize at the Canada－Wide Science Fair...”可知，Daniel Burd因发现短时间降解塑料袋的方法而获奖。故选C。
小题2:推理判断题。从文章第四段中的“...exposing one plastic sample to dead bacteria as a control”可知，他这样做的目的在于测试他的方法是否有效。故选B。
小题3:细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“maintaining the required temperature takes little energy 
because microbes produce heat as they work”可知，细菌在工作的时候会产生热量。故选B。
小题4:推理判断题。从文章最后一段丹尼尔·伯德说的话“Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, ...So I decided to do something myself.” 可推知，他是从每天的工作中得到启发的。故选C。