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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 31 pounds in weight of rubbish put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done Some of it, like the wrapping on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is stupid. Packaging is using up scarce energy and raw materials and ruining all the time. One big firm reports that its glass, cans and paper have all gone up by 30 percent in the last couple of months, while plastic has increased by 50 percent and all these prices are still rising. This seems as yet to have had surprisingly little effect on the packaging practice of manufacturers. Little research is being carried out on the costs in energy and materials of other possible types of packaging. Just how practical is it, for instance, for local authorities to save waste paper and re-manufacture it as egg-boxes Would it be cheaper to plant another forest to produce new paper One mason for the unorganized behavior of everyone concerned is probably the varied nature of the packaging industry. So many people, with so many different interests of their own, are affected that it is extremely hard to reach any agreement on what should be done. Also, packagers say that preserving forests and preventing waste is not their concern. The shopper gets rid of the wrapper immediately because ______.
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I’m in Paris, and a strangely quiet Paris it is. Nothing is going nowhere. If they’re not on strike here, they’re stuck in a traffic jam. It took me two hours to go two miles yesterday evening. And this morning many of the taxis, too, have joined in, leaving me with no alternative but to start walking. And it’ s bitterly cold! The strikes are serious protests about serious issues, but I’m struck, as so often on these occasions, by something much more mundane. People are once again talking to people; strangers are going out of their way to befriend strangers, allies for a week or two in their shared frustration. Parisian motorists, even, normally the most competitive of individualists, have been seen leaving notes in their parked cars saying where they are going and when they expect to leave in case anymore wants a lift. Remove the technology of modem life, it seems, and we often start to be nice to one another again. Technology can isolate us, for all its benefits. It started, I guess, with the chimney. Before there were chimneys, we all had to huddle together in one room Just to keep warm, master and maid, cowman and son of the house. Then some unknown genius came up with the idea of the chimney, and the social stratification of society increased dramatically as all withdrew into their own quarters. Central heating, which is, more truthfully, decentralized heating, made it worse, and now we have our walkmans, our microwaves, or, if we’ re really trendy, the Internet and e-mail. You can get by, these days, without actually speaking to anyone at all. Just the odd grunt to show that you’ re alive ! I liked the survey which asked teenagers how they laid a table for a meal. Did they put the knife on the fight and the fork on the left, or did they put them both together And 40 percent said one and 20 percent the other, but 40 percent didn’t know! They had never sat down at a table together but had always, as they say, been grazers, helping themselves from the fridge and carrying the food off to their own comer to munch on their own. If progress means that we don’ t need to talk to each other anymore, then I’m getting worried. You can’ t begin to love and befriend your neighbors if you never talk to them, and vice versa, they can’t love you. It becomes a recipe for a world of solitaries. But most of us weren’t destined to be hermits. People need people to be truly people, as the Parisians, in spite of all their frustrations, are discovering again this week. "Try walking instead" was my motto for this morning, but perhaps the motto for us all this festive month might be "Turn it off, whatever it is, and try talking instead!\ According to the author, the advent of modem technology may NOT______.
(31) people don’ t wake up in the morning, comb their hair, and (32) the front door and (33) the world stage. But Britain’ s Prince William does, though he’s trying his best to act (34) an ordinary person. In many ways, Prince William’ s graduation from Sandhurst Military Academy earlier this month highlighted his battle for (35) . Last week, he was (36) by his grandmother, the Queen, and his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, who sat with her family in the (37) . "I really do want to (38) my own life," William said in an interview (39) . "I value all .the normality I can get." In 2004, William told the (40) , "I’d want to go where my men went and I’ d want to do what they (41) ". He has since accepted that it would be unfair to put his men (42) by his (43) on the front line. He apparently took it (44) than his Brother Harry, who told officers, "If I am not allowed to join my (45) in a war zone, I will (46) my uniform.’ The (47) in the princes’ characters are obvious: William is the sensitive one, Harry the royal playboy. But the (48) are a team. The family have kept a close (49) on William. But since he left St Andrews, no official agreement has existed to protect his (50) , and he was heard to say at his graduation ceremony, "I’m going out into the big wide world. \
(31) people don’ t wake up in the morning, comb their hair, and (32) the front door and (33) the world stage. But Britain’ s Prince William does, though he’s trying his best to act (34) an ordinary person. In many ways, Prince William’ s graduation from Sandhurst Military Academy earlier this month highlighted his battle for (35) . Last week, he was (36) by his grandmother, the Queen, and his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, who sat with her family in the (37) . "I really do want to (38) my own life," William said in an interview (39) . "I value all .the normality I can get." In 2004, William told the (40) , "I’d want to go where my men went and I’ d want to do what they (41) ". He has since accepted that it would be unfair to put his men (42) by his (43) on the front line. He apparently took it (44) than his Brother Harry, who told officers, "If I am not allowed to join my (45) in a war zone, I will (46) my uniform.’ The (47) in the princes’ characters are obvious: William is the sensitive one, Harry the royal playboy. But the (48) are a team. The family have kept a close (49) on William. But since he left St Andrews, no official agreement has existed to protect his (50) , and he was heard to say at his graduation ceremony, "I’m going out into the big wide world. \
Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news. "Tintin in the Congo" is accused of being ______.
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