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【題目】 We’re drowning in plastic. If you want to reduce your own contribution to the plastic pollution problem, recycling might seem like an easy solution.

But what happens after you clean out those plastic containers and pour them into a recycling bin? Unfortunately, the outcome isn’t as rosy as many people think; recycling is unlikely to give plastic to-go containers new life. “Of all the waste produced in 2017, only 8.4% of it eventually got recycled. It’s not that consumers aren’t motivated to recycle or that they don’t have ready access to recycling programs; the United States simply doesn’t have the proper facilities (設(shè)施),” said John Hocevar, a marine biologist with Greenpeace USA.

A recent report surveyed the United States’ 367 materials recovery facilities—the facilities that sort our recycling—and found only plastic bottles were regularly recycled. The fate of most other types of plastic such as packaging usually ends up being buried or burnt.

Not all plastic is created equal. If you turn over a transparent plastic bottle, like those used to hold water, you’ll notice a number “1” inside a triangular recycling symbol. Non-transparent jugs, like the kind that hold milk, get a “2”. At materials recovery facilities, or MRF’s, plastics get sorted based on these numbers, which indicate how recyclable they are.

Numbers 1 and 2 are relatively recyclable. Recycling gets more difficult with higher numbers, called “mixed plastic”. This waste makes up around 69% of all the plastic we use. It’s much more expensive to process than numbers 1 and 2.

So what the United States needs is facilities equipped to process other kinds of plastic. But Hocevar came up with a different solution: “The really simple answer is that we have to stop making so much throwaway plastic.”

That said, is recycling worth it? For bottles labeled (貼標(biāo)簽) “1” or “2”, the answer is “yes”. There’s also a growing market for plastics labeled “5”. For other numbers, Hocevar’s answer was simple: a resounding (響亮的) “no” on numbers 3, 4, 6 and 7.

【1】Which problem is the USA facing according to the text?

A.People don’t know the best way to recycle.

B.Ready recycling programs are not accessible.

C.People lack awareness about plastic recycling.

D.There isn’t suitable equipment for plastic recycling.

【2】What may John Hocevar think of plastic recycling in the USA?

A.Productive.B.Promising.

C.Unsatisfying.D.Controversial.

【3】What information can the numbers on plastic bottles convey?

A.Whether it is easy to recycle them.

B.The recycling technology they need.

C.They places where they were produced.

D.Which dustbin we should put them into.

【4】What should we do with plastic according to Hocevar?

A.Give up the use of plastic.

B.Develop more cheaper facilities.

C.Only recycle plastics labeled 1 to 5.

D.Reduce the production of mixed plastic.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

本文為說(shuō)明文。講述了塑料垃圾回收問(wèn)題，標(biāo)有不同數(shù)字符號(hào)的塑料瓶回收的成本也不同，有些可以回收，有些應(yīng)該停止制造。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段It’s not that consumers aren’t motivated to recycle or that they don’t have ready access to recycling programs; the United States simply doesn’t have the proper facilities（這并不是說(shuō)消費(fèi)者沒(méi)有回收利用的動(dòng)機(jī)，也不是說(shuō)他們沒(méi)有現(xiàn)成的回收利用的途徑;美國(guó)就是沒(méi)有適當(dāng)?shù)脑O(shè)施）可知，美國(guó)所遇到的問(wèn)題沒(méi)有適當(dāng)?shù)脑O(shè)施，故選 D。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“Of all the waste produced in 2017, only 8.4% of it eventually got recycled. …the United States simply doesn’t have the proper facilities (設(shè)施),” said John Hocevar, a marine biologist with Greenpeace USA.（“在2017年產(chǎn)生的所有垃圾中，只有8.4%最終得到回收利用。…美國(guó)就是沒(méi)有適當(dāng)?shù)脑O(shè)施�！泵绹�(guó)綠色和平組織的海洋生物學(xué)家John Hocevar說(shuō)，）可知，John Hocevar 對(duì)美國(guó)塑料回收不滿意，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段Numbers 1 and 2 are relatively recyclable. Recycling gets more difficult with higher numbers, called “mixed plastic”. （數(shù)字1和2是相對(duì)可回收的。塑料的數(shù)量越高，回收就越困難，被稱為混合塑料。）可知，塑料瓶上的數(shù)字代表了回收難度，故選A。

【4】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段Hocevar came up with a different solution: “The really simple answer is that we have to stop making so much throwaway plastic.”（ Hocevar想出了一個(gè)不同的解決方案:“真正簡(jiǎn)單的答案是我們必須停止制造這么多的一次性塑料�！保┛芍�，按照Hocevar所說(shuō)，對(duì)于無(wú)法回收的混合塑料，我們應(yīng)該減少生產(chǎn)，故選D。