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In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
In India's capital, new housing sprawls as far as the eye can see, a symbol of the world's fastest growing major economy. There also are towering symbols of the environmental cost of all this. Ghazipur, one of the city's landfills, more than 10 stories high, an accumulation by now of more than 10 million tons of waste, is one of the biggest problems in India now. Trucks are bringing in an additional 2,000 tons of unsorted garbage here every day. The trash problem is now a crisis at many levels. First, India is on the _________ zone, so if there is an earthquake, the mound of trash would slide down. Even without an earthquake, festering garbage would spew toxins into the air while a stew of heavy metals and organic and inorganic pollutants washes into the soil when it rains. Now a company, contracted by Indian government, attempts to tackle this crisis by a power plant to convert waste to energy, sent to the electric grid. However, this is not the first attempt at creating energy from waste. Previous ones haven't worked, according to environmental activists, because of the inability to sort and segregate the waste which is then used for incineration. If the trash isn't sorted properly, you may have both very toxic emissions that come out of the plant and fuel of very poor quality that is generated. The proper segregation of the trash fails because in a caste society like India, waste has been the domain of people on the lowest rung of the age-old social hierarchy, not the middle classes who generate most of it.
What is the main reason for the failure to segregate trash in India?
- A The speed of generating trash is way much faster than cleaning it.
- B Waste is always treated as someone else's problem.
- C There is only one company in India in charge of 10 million tons of trash.
- D Too many earthquakes in India cause the landfills to collapse.
- E The toxic waste from the burning trash prevents the cleaners' job.
思路引導 VIP
請觀察文章最後一段提到的社會階層現象：如果產生問題的人（中產階級）與被預期解決問題的人（底層階級）是完全不同的兩群人，這對於需要『從源頭主動配合』的垃圾分類工作，會造成什麼樣的心理或行為阻礙？
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社會結構與責任歸屬
這題的正確答案為 (B)，其關鍵在於文章末段提到的**社會階層觀念（Social hierarchy/Caste system）**對垃圾分類的影響。文章明確指出，垃圾分類之所以失敗，是因為在印度的傳統觀念中，處理廢棄物被視為社會「最底層（lowest rung）」人士的專屬領域。這導致了實際產生大部分垃圾的中產階級並不認為自己有責任進行分類，這種「垃圾是別人的事」的心理隔閡，才是導致廢棄物無法從源頭有效管理的核心主因。
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