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1、 2022年12月四级考试真题与答案7Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: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
2、 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 plasti
3、c 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 s
4、imply 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
5、 actually depress prices for used m aterials.;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 ev
6、ery ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal,which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recy cling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by givi
7、ng 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 charg
8、ed 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 undergroundB be turned into raw materialsC have a second|life valueD be separated from other
9、rubbish 38. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is. A to sell them at a profitable priceB how to turn them into useful thingsC how to reduce their recycling costsD to lower the prices for used materials 39. Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of ru
10、bbish because . A local governments find it easy to manageB recycling has great appeal for the joblessC recycling causes little pollutionD 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 materialsB local governments in the U.S. can expect big profits from recyclingC recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentallyD landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal
