In 1993 New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (饮料)containers. Within a year. Consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products. But because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buried in landfills (垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.
Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled (回收利用)in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life-and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.
Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
36.What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?
A) Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles.
B) Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.
C) A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling.
D) Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them.
37.The returned plastic bottles in New York used to ________.
A) end up somewhere underground
B) be turned into raw materials
C) have a second-life value
D) be separated from other rubbish
38.The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ________.
A) to sell them at a profitable price
B) how to turn them into useful things
C) how to reduce their recycling costs
D) to lower the prices for used materials
39.Recycling ahs become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ________.
A) local governments find it easy to manage
B) recycling ahs great appeal for the jobless
C) recycling causes little pollution
D) other methods are more expensive
40.It can be concluded from the passage that ________.
A) rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials
B) local governments in the U. S. can expect big profits from recycling
C) recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally
D) landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal
答案:36.C 37.D 38.C 39.B 40.A
电脑游戏与我们的视力(Computer games and our eyesight)
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通知-NOTICE
我的同学(My Classmate)
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动物园(the zoo)
爱和喜欢的区别(The Difference between Love and Like)
我最喜欢的花(My favorite flower)
我对考试的意见(My Views on Examinations)
公益劳动(voluntary labour)
爱如清晨的阳光(Such as love the early morning sunshine)
蘑菇(Mushroom)
杰克逊一家的星期天(The Jacksons Sunday)
关于兴建造纸厂(On Building a Paper Factory)
体育运动的好处和坏处(Positive and Negative Aspects of Sports)
明天又是新的一天(Tomorrow is a new day)
我如何度过暑假(how i spent my summer vacation)
默契的父亲(Tacit understanding father)
父母是否该为孩子做决定?
误送的留言条(A Note Wrongly Sent)
如何与同学相处(How To Get On With Classmates)
Jane的国庆节之行
我最喜欢的节日(My Favorite Holiday)
知识和经验 Knowledge or Experience
化学老师(Chemistry Teacher)
坚持你的梦想(Hold to Your Dreams)
成功要素(factors of success)
婚姻、爱情与自由(Marriage, love and freedom)
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