Today, I live in Manhattan with my husband, Alex. I'm an IT specialist and Alex is a lawyer. Life's good,but sometimes I look at the way we live it and think of Ellie, my grandmother. Her favorite saying was n Waste not, want not. " ①______________ . Ellie carefully folded the paper from parcels and washed glass jars to use again. Frank,my grandfather, used old socks and pullovers(套头毛衣) to protect the plants in winter. Nowadays, we go to a garden center to buy special felt for that purpose. Have we all gone mad?

Such economy seems strange, even ridiculous, in our modem throwaway society, where everything is sold in boxes. ②______________, but as a selling feature to make us want to buy them. Ellie and Frank would have seen the very

idea of a "gift pack" as a cheat.

③______________ The United States produces about 180 million metric tons of waste per year, 70% of which is packaging materials. The average American family uses up six trees' worth of paper a year. ④______________, they would reach to the moon and back twelve times. "We can't go on like this," I said to Alex. " Let's start at home. If everybody starts at home, then this madness will stop."

⑤______________ Of course, this meant that we produced a lot of waste, but I was shocked to find that this came to over six kilos per week. " Your grandma Ellie with her ' Waste not,want not' was really modem,wasn't she?" "Not really," I said. "Ellie and their neighbors were just ordinary, traditional New Englanders. We've all gone mad since then."

A. Packaging is not only used to protect goods

B. My grandparents threw almost nothing away

C. In one week alone, we threw away five old magazines

D. We didn't often go shopping and then cook meals at home

E. As young Manhattan professionals,we buy a lot of "convenience food"

F. But we pay a high financial and ecological price for our lovely packaging

G. If you placed all the cans used in the United States, in one year end to end

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