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Restaurant owners should not use disposable chopsticks for the good of their health and the
environment, an official of the China Cuisine Association (中国烹饪协会) said.
Bian Jiang, its secretary general, recently called on restaurant owners to say no to one-off tableware
(餐具), especially wooden chopsticks. "The country produces and throws away over 45 billion pairs of
wooden chopsticks every year, at a cost to the environment of about 25 million tree." Bian said.
"That's a heavy blow to the county's shrinking forests," he said, "We should not turn a deaf ear to the
call for environmental protection. We should stop using disposable tableware from now on."
In order to discourage the use of wooden chopsticks and to protect wooden resources, the government
put a 5% tax on them in April.
The use of disposable chopsticks has been discussed for years. Their supporters say that both restaurant
owners and consumers prefer them, and that an industry has grown up around their production.
1. The secretary general suggests that wooden chopsticks be stopped from being used because _____.
A. they cause a lot of pollution of the environment
B. the environment is no longer green
C. the government is not happy with that
D. too many trees are cut
2. From the text we know that the idea of no disposable tableware will be _____.
A. hard to put into practice
B. welcomed by a lot of people
C. receiving indifferent attitudes
D. rejected by some people
3. What does the underlined word "disposable" in the first paragraph mean?
A. Waste
B. Expensive
C. Man
D. One-use
4. What's the main idea of the text?
A. Many people support the idea of saying no to using wooden chopsticks.
B. The government calls on people to stop using wooden chopsticks.
C. Disposable tableware wastes a lot of forests and does damage to the environment.
D. People are aware of the cost of using disposable tableware.
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