第一段
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dia Mirza and Adrian Grenier have a message for you: It’s easy to beat plastic. They’re part of a bunch of celebrities staring in a new video for World Environment Day-encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use Plastic staples to combat the plastic crisis.
单词&词组
a bunch of 大量的
swap out 将……替换掉
staple n. 日常必需品
combat v. 与……战斗，与……斗争
本段翻译
阿诺德·施瓦辛格、迪亚·米尔扎和阿德里安·格雷尼尔要告诉你一个信息：打败塑料很容易。他们是一群名人中的一员，他们在世界环境日的一段新视频中鼓励你，消费者，换掉一次性使用的塑料主食，以应对塑料危机。
第二段
My biggest concern with leaving it up to the individual, however, is our limited sense of what needs to be achieved On their own, taking our own bags to the grocery store or quitting plastic straws, for example, will accomplish little and require very little of us. They could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have "done our bit" without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions---a kind of "moral licensing" that allays our concerns and stops us doing more and asking more of those in charge.
单词&词组
concern n. 忧虑，担心
grocery store 食品杂货店
detrimental a. 有害的，不利的
bold a. 果敢的，无畏的
allay v. 消除或减轻（恐惧/担忧等）
moral licensing 道德许可效应
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然而，我最担心的是，我们对自己需要实现的目标的认识有限，比如，把自己的袋子带到杂货店，或是放弃塑料吸管，都不会取得什么成就，对我们的要求也很低。它们甚至可能是有害的，满足了“尽我们的一份力”的需要，而不去采取更大、更大胆、更有效的行动——一种“道德许可证”，可以减轻我们的顾虑，阻止我们做更多的事，也不会要求更多的负责人。
第三段
While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping bags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systemic change.
单词&词组
imply v. 暗示，暗指
sustainably ad. 可持续地
本段翻译
虽然围绕我们的环境和我们对环境的责任的讨论仍然集中在购物袋和吸管上，但我们忽视了权力平衡，这意味着作为“消费者”我们必须可持续地购物，而不是作为“公民”要求我们的政府和行业对推动真正的系统性变革负责。
第四段
It’s important to acknowledge that the environment isn’t everyone’s priority-or even most people’s. We shouldn’t expect it to be .In her latest book, Why Could People Do Bad Environmental Things, Wellesley College professor Elizabeth R. DeSombre argue that the best way to collectively change the behavior of large numbers of people is for the change to be structural.
单词&词组
acknowledge v. 承认（事实或情况）
priority n. 优先考虑、处理的事，当务之急
collectively ad. 集体地，共同地
本段翻译
必须承认，环境并不是每个人的首要任务，甚至不是大多数人的首要任务。我们不应该期望它如此。在她最新的一本书《为什么人们会做不好的环境事情》中，韦尔斯利学院教授伊丽莎白德索姆布雷（Elizabeth R.DeSombre）认为，集体改变大量人行为的最佳方式是改变是结构性的。
第五段
This might mean implementing policy such as a plastic tax that adds a cost to environmentally problematic action, or banning single-use plastics altogether. India has just announced it will” eliminate all single-use plastic in the country by 2022.” There are also incentive-based ways of making better environmental choices easier, such as ensuring recycling is at least as easy as trash disposal.
单词&词组
implement v. 贯彻，执行
problematic a. 难对付的，成问题的
eliminate v. 消灭，根除
incentive-based a. 激励性的
trash n. 废物，垃圾
disposal n. 丢弃，清除
本段翻译
这可能意味着实施诸如塑料税这样的政策，这会增加环境问题行动的成本，或者完全禁止一次性使用塑料。至少在2022年，印度宣布了一种更容易回收利用塑料的方法。
第六段
De Sombre isn’t saying people should stop caring about the environment. It’s just that individual actions are too slow, she says, for that to be only, or even primary, approach to changing widespread behavior.
单词&词组
primary a. 首要的，主要的
本段翻译
德萨姆布雷并不是说人们应该停止关心环境。她说，只是个人行动太慢了，这不是改变普遍行为的唯一方法，甚至是主要方法。
第七段
None of this is about writing off the individual. It’s just about putting things into perspective. We don’t have time to wait. We need progressive policies that shape collective action (and rein in polluting business), alongside engaged citizens pushing for change.
单词&词组
perspective n. 合理判断，正确认识
progressive a. 进步的，先进的
shape v. 塑造
rein in 控制
engaged a. 被卷入的，参与的
本段翻译
所有这些都不是为了注销个人。只是把事情放在正确的角度。我们没时间等了。我们需要形成集体行动（并控制污染企业）的进步政策，以及积极参与的公民推动变革。
五道题
36. Some celebrities star in a new video to .
[A] demand new laws on the use of plastics
[B] urge consumers to cut the use of plastics
[C] invite public opinion on the plastics crisis
[D] disclose the causes of the plastics crisis
37.The author is concerned that “moral licensing” may .
[A] mislead us into doing worthless things
[B] prevent us from making further efforts
[C] weaken our sense of accomplishment
[D] suppress our desire for success
38. By pointing out identity “citizens”, the author indicates that .
[A] our focus should be shifted to community welfare
[B] our relationship with local industries is improving
[C] We have been actively exercising our civil rights
[D] We should press our government to lead the combat
39. De Sombre argues that the best way for a collective change should be .
[A] a win-win arrangement
[B] a self-driven mechanism
[C] a cost-effective approach
[D] a top down process
40. The author concludes that individual efforts .
[A] can be too aggressive
[B] can be too inconsistent
[C] are far from sufficient
[D] are far from rational
参考答案
BBDDC
答案解析
36、根据题干定位首段的第三句话，即“encouraging you, the consumer, to swap out your single-use plastic staples like straws and cutlery to combat the plastic crisis.”意思是“鼓励消费者减少使用一次性塑料制品，从而对抗塑料危机”。仔细观察四个选项，选项[B]中的 “urge”一词与原文中的 “encourage”一词属于同义替换，“cut the use of plastics”与原文中的 “swap out your single-use plastic staples”意思一致，所以正确答案即为[B]选项。
37、题干中问作者担忧“moral licensing”可能如何，第二段最后一句“they could even be detrimental, satisfying a need to have “done our bit”without ever progressing onto bigger, bolder, more effective actions”意为“他们没有采取更大、更明显、更有效的措施”，仔细观察选项，只有选项[B]中的”prevent us from making further efforts”，即“妨碍我们进一步的行动”，故[B]正确。
38、根据题干定位到原文中的第三段，因为该段只有一句话，所以根据关键信息我们只需要理解后半句 “rather than as “citizens”hold our governments and industries to account to push for real systematic change”，意即“而不是作为“市民”，去推动我们的政府和行业去做出真正的系统性的改变”。意思就是作者希望政府自发作出改变来应对当下的情形，只有[D]选项表达出这一层含义。
39、根据题干定位到文中的第四、五段，“Elizaberth R. DeSombre... for the change to be structural”，大意为这个教授认为集体性的改变大多数人行为最好的方法就是使其变成结构性的，第五段进一步从市民和政府的角度，阐述了这种结构化的改变。对比选项，只有[D]选项“自上而下的过程”最为符合。
40、根据题干信息以及解题的顺序原则，定位到最后一段，作者认为当下时间紧迫，我们需要改变看问题的角度，需要更为进步的政策来推动集体行动以及热心的市民参与进来，单靠个人的努力远远不够，这与[C]选项中的“远远不够”同义替换，故[C]正确。
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