Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 35. Garbage cans are not magical portals. Trash does not disappear when you toss it in a can. Yet, the average American throws away an estimated 1,600 pounds of waste each year. If there are no magic garbage fairies, where does all that trash go? There are four methods to managing waste: Recycling, landfilling, composting, and incinerating. Each...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 28 to 35.
Garbage cans are not magical portals. Trash does not disappear when you toss it in a can. Yet, the average American throws away an estimated 1,600 pounds of waste each year. If there are no magic garbage fairies, where does all that trash go? There are four methods to managing waste:
Recycling, landfilling, composting, and incinerating. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses. Let’s take a quick look at each.
Recycling is the process of turning waste into new materials. For example, used paper can be turned into paperboard, which can be used to make book covers. Recycling can reduce pollution, save materials, and lower energy use. Yet, some argue that recycling wastes energy. They believe that collecting, processing, and converti g waste uses more energy than it saves. Still, most people agree that recycling is better for the planet
than landfilling.
Landfilling is the oldest method of managing waste. In its simplest form, landfilling is when people bury garbage in a hole. Over time the practice of landfilling has advanced. Garbage is compacted before it is thrown into the hole. In this way more garbage can fit in each landfill. Large liners are placed in the bottom of landfills so that toxic garbage juice doesn't get into the ground water. Sadly, these liners don't always work. Landfills may pollute the local water supply. Not to mention that all of that garbage stinks. Nobody wants to live next to a landfill. This makes it hard to find new locations for landfills.
Compositing is when people pile up organic matter, such as food waste, and allow it to decompose. The product of this decomposition is compost. Compost can be added to the soil to make the soil richer and better for growing crops. While composting is easy to do onsite somewhere, like home or school, it's hard to do after the garbage gets all mixed up. This is because plastic and other inorganic materials must be removed from the compost pile or they will pollute the soil. There's a lot of plastic in garbage, which makes it hard to compost on a large scale.
One thing that is easier to do is burning garbage. There are two main ways to incinerate waste. The first is to create or harvest a fuel from the waste, such as methane gas, and burn the fuel. The second is to burn the waste directly. The heat from the incineration process can boil water, which can power steam generators. Unfortunately, burning garbage pollutes the air. Also, some critics worry that incinerators destroy valuable resources that could be recycled.
Usually, the community in which you live manages waste. Once you put your garbage in that can, what happens to fit is beyond your control. But you can make choices while it is still in your possession. You can choose to recycle, you can choose to compost, or you can choose to let someone else deal with it. The choice is yours.
Question 35: Which conclusion could be drawn from the passage?
A. Recycling is without a doubt the best way to handle waste.
B. Each method of waste management has its drawbacks.
C. Incineration is the best way to process waste.
D. All large cities should create massive compost piles.
1. get there/ If you can't/ I will help you/ with this map/ find your place,
If you can't find your place,I will help you get there with this map.
2. each year/ Ships drop/ tons of garbage/ about six million/ into the sea
Ships drop about six million tons of garbage into the sea each year
3. dumping of waste/ the result of/ This can be/ or a deliberate/ carelessness
This can be result of carelessness or a deliberate dumping of waste.
4. an accident/ from the vessel/ and oil leaks/ A ship has
A ship has an accident from the vessel and oil leaks
5. the air/ private vehicles / and / Use fewer / pollutants into/ don't release
Use fewer private vehicles and don't release pollutants into the air
6. are becoming/ Our oceans/ polluted / extremely
Our Oceans are becoming extremely polluted.
7. all the bags/ Mr.Jones/ and takes them/ collects/ to the garbage dump
Mr jones collects all the bags and take them to the garbage dump
8. the world will/ goes on,/ like a second - hand junk - yard/ end up/ If all the pollution
If all the pollution goes on, the world will end up like a second-hand junk-yard.
9. lots of garbage / after their refreshment/ Drivers leave/ on the ground
Drivers leave lots of garbage on the ground after their refreshment.
10. of your trucks / I am writing / the short stop/ around my house / to you about
I am writing to you about the short stop of your trucks around my house.
11. / / / /
=>I'm pleased this semester that you are working hard
12. ,/ // /
=>If we go on littering, the environment will become seriously polluted
13. / / / / /
=>Plastic bags will cause pollution since they are very hard to dissolve
14. / / / /
=>I think the best way is to reuse and recycle things to reduce garbage
15. / / / /
=>Diane is away going for a week in October
16. / / /
=>Peter apologized to Jane for his behavior
17. / / / /
We got to the meeting late because of the very bad traffic
18. / // /
I'm afraid that You don't have the necessary qualification for the job
19. / / // /
The teacher wrote the answers in the board so everyone could see them