Paper or Plastic?
Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay, and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water.They have made their_______into local waterways and,from there,into the bay, where they can________wildlife.Piles of them show up in landfillsand on city streets.Plastic bags also take an environmental tollin the__________of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.
Enter Annapolis and you will see plastic bags_______free in department stores and supermarkets.AldermanSam Shoeshine has introduced a well-meaning_______to ban retailers from distributing plastic shopping bags up MarylandS capital.Instead,retailers would be required to recycled paper and to sell reusable bags.The city of Baltimore.similar measure.Opponents of the are harmful,too:They cost more tothey_______,however_______bags made of________a argue that paper bags_______more resources to.transport,and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic.The argument for depriving Annapolis residents Everyone in this _________their plastic bags is far from accepted________is right about one thing:Disposable shopping bags of any type are wasteful,and the best outcome would be for customers to ________bags instead.Annapolismayor is investigating how to hand out free,reusable shopping bags to city residents,a proposal that can proceed ________of whether other bags are banned.A less-expensive alternative would be to encourage retailers to give be more________to customers who bring their own reusable bags.And this policy would_________if stores imitated furniture megaretailerIkea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter.A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags is not the answer.
51. A difference B point C progress D way
52. A harm B help C keep D protect
53. A light B form C time D place
54. A dropped B packed C put D distributed
55. A proposal B service C system D change
56. A open B fill C offer D hold
57. A getting B considering C replacing D improving
58. A idea B effect C technology D behavior
59. A limit B provide C destroy D consume
60. A from B with C of D in
61. A debate B organization C project D program
62. A reform B reuse C repair D reduce
63. A instead B because C regardless D careless
64. A examples B instructions C discounts D receipts
65.A impressive B effective C formal D typical