15."We haven't found anything that we can't recycle!"
Cigarette ends are everywhere-littering our streets and beaches-and for decades they've been thought of as"unrecyclable".But a New Jersey based company,called TerraCycle,has taken on the challenge,and has come up with a way to recycle millions of cigarette ends and turn them into industrial plastic products.Its aim is to recycle things that people normally consider impossible to reuse.
Obviously it would be even better for the environment if everyone just stopped smoking,but the statistics show that although there has been an increase in anti-smoking ads and messaging,between 2000 and 2014,global sales of cigarettes increased by 8percent,and a whole lot of those cigarette ends are ending up as trash.Since most of our litter eventually ends up in waterways,cigarette ends can surely pollute the surrounding environment."It only takes a single cigarette end to pollute a liter of water,"TerraCycle founder,Tom Szaky,said."Animals can also mistake littered cigarette ends for food."
So how do you go about turning all those poisonous ends into something useful?TerraCycle does this by first breaking them down into separate parts.They mix the remaining materials,such as the tobacco and the paper,with other kinds of rubbish,and use it on non-agricultural land,such as golf courses.The filters (過濾嘴) are a little harder.To recycle these,TerraCycle first makes them clean and cuts them into small pieces,and then combines them with other recycled materials,making them into liquid for industrial plastic products.
They're now also expanding their recycling offerings to the rest of the 80percent of household waste that currently can't be recycled,such as chocolate packaging,pens,and mobile phones.The goal is to use the latest research to find a way to stop so much waste ending up in landfill (垃圾填埋),and then get companies to provide money for the process.And so far,it's working.
"We haven't found anything that we can't recycle,"communications director of TerraCycle,Albe Zakes,said."But with the amount and variety of packaging and litter in the world,we are always looking for new waste streams to address."

63.What does TerraCycle intend to do?D
A.Search for recyclable materials for use.
B.Deal with as many cigarette ends as possible.
C.Produce new kinds of industrial plastic products.
D.Recycle what used to be considered unrecyclable.
64.The underlined word"trash"in Paragraph 2 probably meansA.
A.rubbishB.poison C.disaster  D.ruin
65.What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?B
A.The effective use of cigarette ends.
B.The process of recycling cigarette ends.
C.The difficulty in recycling cigarette ends.
D.The reason for breaking down cigarette ends.
66.What Albe said in the last paragraph implies thatC.
A.there is more and more waste to be recycled
B.it is difficult for TerraCycle to recycle everything
C.TerraCycle is trying to meet the challenge of new waste
D.TerraCycle has successfully recycled a large amount of waste.

分析 短文主要講了新澤西一個公司TerraCycle回收人們認(rèn)為是不可回收的東西,例如煙頭,并講述了其回收利用過程,該公司表示他們還沒遇到不可回收的東西,并會繼續(xù)迎接回收新垃圾的挑戰(zhàn).

解答 63.D,細(xì)節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)句子Its aim is to recycle things that people normally consider impossible to reuse.可知,TerraCycle的目的就是要回收那些被人們認(rèn)為不可再回收利用的東西,故答案為D.
64.A,詞義猜測題,根據(jù)句子as the tobacco and the paper,with other kinds of rubbish可以猜測出,這里提到的很多煙頭都變成了rubbish,故答案為A.
65.B,段落大意題,根據(jù)句子To recycle these,TerraCycle first makes them clean and cuts them into small pieces,and then combines them with other recycled materials,making them into liquid for industrial plastic products.可知,為了回收這些煙頭,TerraCycle把它們先切成小塊,再加入其他的回收材料,把它們變成液體,做成工業(yè)塑料產(chǎn)品,因此這一段主要是講了回收煙頭的一個過程,故答案為B.
66.C,推理判斷題,根據(jù)最后一句話Albe說他們還沒有找到不能回收的東西,但是隨著包裝的多樣和垃圾的增多,他們也盡力面對回收這些新垃圾的挑戰(zhàn),故答案為C.

點(diǎn)評 解答任務(wù)型閱讀理解題,首先對原文材料迅速瀏覽,掌握全文的主旨大意.因?yàn)殚喿x理解題一般沒有標(biāo)題,所以,速讀全文,抓住中心主旨很有必要,在速讀的過程中,應(yīng)盡可能多地捕獲信息材料.其次,細(xì)讀題材,各個擊破.掌握全文的大意之后,細(xì)細(xì)閱讀每篇材料后的問題,弄清每題要求后,帶著問題,再回到原文中去尋找、捕獲有關(guān)信息.最后,要善于抓住每段的主題句,閱讀時,要有較強(qiáng)的針對性.對于捕獲到的信息,要做認(rèn)真分析,仔細(xì)推敲,理解透徹,只有這樣,針對題目要求,才能做到穩(wěn)、準(zhǔn).

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