8. By analyzing the garbage of a large number of average-sized households, a group of modern urban anthropologists has found that a household discards less food the more standardized—made up of canned and prepackaged foods—its diet is. The more standardized a household’s diet is, however, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage?

(A) An increasing number of households rely on a highly standardized diet.

(B) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more nonfood waste the household discards.

(C) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.

(D) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the more canned and prepackaged foods the household discards as waste.

(E) The more fresh produce a household buys, the more fresh produce it throws away.

答案c, 但是为什么d不对呢？

请赐教！谢谢

Let me try.

The D cannot be right because, according to the passage, the the more standardized a household’s diet is, the greater the quantities of fresh produce the household throws away. Using this info, we may get that the less standardized a housedhold's diet, the less the quantities of fresh produce the houshold throws away. This is nothing to do with what D indicates.

谢谢楼主的回答，现在看看，好像我对这句话的理解有问题：“a household discards less food the more standardized—made up of canned and prepackaged foods—its diet is. The more standardized a household’s diet is." standardized 到底是修饰food,还是修饰 its diet 呢？

这句话翻译成这样对不对呢？“假如一个家庭的饮食越标准化，他们就抛弃越少的食物，这些食物包括灌装和预先包装好的食品。” 但是如果这样翻译的话，觉得破折号放在standardized 和its diet is 中间， 很奇怪。

麻烦大家帮我解释一下！