Section Ⅰ Use of English

Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened  1  . As was discussed before, it was not  2   the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic  3  , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the  4   of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution  5   up, beginning wit ……此处隐藏35045个字…… will be, thus encouraging excessive packaging.

    In my point of view, excessive packaging not only creates waste of resources, but also causes unnecessary environment pollution, so we should try our best to eliminate this phenomenon completely. To solve this problem, the government should implement policy to restrict excessive packaging of companies. Besides, we need to raise consumer's awareness that excessive packaging doesn't equal to high quality and advocate packaging recycling.

[解析] 本篇作文为议论文。题目要求对过度包装这一现象进行评论。考生在写作时，首先应引出话题，指出许多商品存在过度包装的情况，然后给出原因，最后，提出自己的建议和看法。文章第一段描述了过度包装现象在现代社会是普遍的，我们应该重视它。第二段分别从企业和消费者的角度来分析过度包装这种现象的原因。最后一段，作者给出了看法和一些建议，认为过度包装是一个严肃的话题，我们应该努力去解决它。