Directions: The passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Polyester is now being used for bottles. ICI, the chemicals and plastics company, believes that it is now beginning to break the grip of glass on
the bottle business and thus take advantage of this huge market.
All the plastics manufacturers have been experiencing hard times as their traditional products have been doing badly world-wide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 the Plastics Division of ICI had lost a hundred and twenty million dollars, and they felt that the. most hopeful new market was in packaging, bottles and cans.
Since 1982 it has opened three new factories producing Melinar, the raw material from which high quality polyester bottles are made.
The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s, when soft drinks companies like Coca Cola started selling their drinks in giant two-liter containers. Because of the build-up of the pressure of gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which had been used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic had to be made.
Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles, and will continue to be so unless oil and plastic become much cheaper, but plastic does well for the larger sizes.
Polyester bottles are virtually unbreakable. The manufacturers claim they are also lighter, less noisy when being handled, and can be reused. Shopkeepers and other business people are unlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester, since these bottles mean few breakages, which are costly and time-consuming. The public, though, have been more difficult to persuade. ICIs commercial department is developing different bottles with interesting shapes, to try and make them visually more attractive to the public.
The next step could be to develop a plastic which could replace tins for food. The problem here is the high temperatures necessary for cooking the food in the container.
26. Plastics of various kinds have been used for making bottles__________.
A. since 1982
B. since the 1970s but only for large bottles
C. since the 1960s but not for liquids with gas in them
D. since companies like Coca Cola first tried them
27. Why is ICIs Plastics Division interested in polyester for bottles?
A. The other things they make are not selling well.
B. Glass manufacturers cannot make enough new bottles.
C. They have factories which could be adapted to make it.
D. The price of oil keeps changing.
28. Why arent all bottles now made of polyester?
A. The price of oil and plastic has risen.
B. It is not suitable for containing gassy drinks.
C. The public like traditional glass bottles.
D. Shop-keepers dislike reusable bottles.
29. Manufacturers think polyester bottles are better than glass bottles because they
A. are cheaper B. are more suited to small sizes
C. are more exciting to look at D. do not break easily
30. Plastic containers for holding food in the same way as cans______.
A. have been used for many years
B. are an idea that interests the plastics companies
C. are possible, but only for hot food
D. are the first things being made in the new factories
答案:
26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B
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Chelsea doctor and surfing in Australia 切尔西队医与球队和解,澳大利亚冲浪
California wildfires and cloned animals 加利福尼亚州野火,克隆动物衰老过程正常
Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映
IOC on Russian doping and hot June 奥委会就涉俄兴奋剂事件报告进展,六月高温破纪录
To lie through your teeth 睁眼说瞎话
There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法
Test the water 试探,摸底
Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史,400岁格陵兰鲨鱼
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Close, but no cigar 几近成功
White / blue-collar worker 白领,蓝领
It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响
World's longest tunnel and a strange kind of race 世界最长铁路隧道,扛羊毛袋比赛
Alligator takes boy and Tate Modern extension 鳄鱼拖走小男孩,泰特现代美术馆扩建完工
The university of life 生活经历
You're pulling my leg! 你在愚弄我!
A recipe for disaster 后患无穷
India's sewer workers and British school standards 印度下水道工人施工安全,英国在校生学习成绩下降
Canada wildfire and NASA discovery 加拿大林火,美国国家航空航天局发现系外行星
Crash course 速成课
The last/final straw 忍无可忍,使人最终崩溃的一击
To make a mountain out of a molehill 小题大做
The cost of protecting the environment, Juno space probe 保护环境付出的代价,“朱诺”木星探测器
Big Ben and gorilla surprise 维修大本钟,大猩猩生子
To fall at the first hurdle 跌倒在第一关
Cyborg beetle and the teenage brain 半机械甲虫,青少年脑部发育
In good nick 品质好、没有损坏
To make a monkey out of me 捉弄我
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