問題詳情
A simple change to the design of the gallon milk jug, adopted by the retail giants Wal-Mart and Costco,seems made for the times. The jugs are cheaper to ship and better for the environment, the milk is fresher whenit arrives in stores, and it costs less. However, the jugs have no real spout, and their unorthodox shape makesconsumers feel like novices at the simple task of pouring a glass of milk. “I hate it. It spills everywhere,” said acustomer.Though the greener milk jug isn’t widely welcomed, retailers are undeterred because it has advantagesfrom their perspective. In an era of soaring global demand and higher costs for energy and materials, virtuallyevery aspect of the economy needs to be reexamined and many products must be redesigned for greaterefficiency. The redesign of the gallon milk jug is a typical example of this change. In the past, the bottling andshipping of milk jugs were inefficient and labor-intensive. Workers used a long hook to drag plastic cratesloaded with milk jugs onto a conveyor belt. The crates were essential to prevent old-fashioned milk jugs fromstacking atop one another but took a lot of room. With the new jugs, the crates are gone and the shipping cancut labor by half.The whole operation is so much more efficient that milk coming out of a cow in the morning winds up at astore by that afternoon, compared with the next morning by the old method. The question now is whethercustomers will go along. A shopper named Jodi Kauffman gave the jugs a glance. “Maybe,” she said.
【題組】47 What is the main idea of this passage?
(A) What is environment-friendly is also user-friendly.
(B) What brings benefit to the earth is always worth buying.
(C) Greener products do not necessarily gain instant popularity.
(D) Environment-friendly products offer us the choice of cost-cutting.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：適中0.553191
統計：A(8),B(9),C(26),D(4),E(0)