To get a chocolate out of a box demands
a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of its paper
bag; the plastic wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the packing
paper inside removed; the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own
piece of paper. Similarly a pot of face cream comes surrounded by layers of
paper, wedged inside a cardboard box, and the whole thing wrapped tightly in
plastic. It is not only luxuries which are wrapped in this way. With so many
goods now produced centrally and sold in supermarkets it is becoming
increasingly difficult to buy anything from nails to potatoes that is not
already done up in plastic or paper. The wrapper itself is of no interest to the
shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for
much of the A. he is not careful enough B. it adds to the weight C. it is difficult for him to handle D. it is of no importance to him [单项选择]
{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950’s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of fam A. Educational changes in Canadian society. B. Canada during the Second World War. C. Standards of living in Canada. D. Population trends in postwar Canada. [单项选择] {{B}}TEXT B{{/B}}
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