阅读理解 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 savings 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.

单选题 What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】辨认事实题。根据第1句“纽约州命令店铺对饮料容器收取押金。”可知C项“顾客要为饮料容器付款，而在归还它们后把钱收回”为原文释义，关键在于理解deposit“押金”。而A项“对使用过的饮料容器实行收费来循环使用”，B项“该州应收集扔掉了的饮料容器来循环使用”和D项“饮料公司应当负责收集和重新使用丢弃的塑料汽水瓶”均为无关信息或胡乱拼凑。

单选题 The returned plastic bottles in New York used to ________.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】辨认事实题。根据题目中的plastic bottles查找到文中第2句，随后第3句就说了其下落“…much of it wound up buried in landfills它们大多数以埋在垃圾填埋场为结局”，D项最终被埋在地下”为原文的同义表达。根据第3句，A项被改变成原材料”只是一些公司实现不了的愿望，因此C项有第二次生命的价值”也不可能，而B项与其他垃圾分开”是第3段所说的recycling的一个步骤，跟此题的plastic bottles无关。

单选题 The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】归纳推理题。本题询问处理回收的塑料饮料瓶的关键问题是什么。根据题目中的returned plastic查找到第2段“美国现在每5个塑料瓶中就有1个回收利用的原因是许多公司购买废弃的塑料瓶来将它们变成栅栏柱、油漆刷，等等。”另外，第3段中又提到“废弃物依然是废弃物直到有人想出怎样给予它第二次生命”。因此关键是C项“怎样将它们转化成有用的东西”，并且其中turn...into结构与第2段最后一行的原文一致。A项“怎样减少回收成本”是原文单词recycling和cost的拼凑；B项“以有利可图的价格卖掉它们”为无关信息；D项“降低使用过的材料的价格”是第3段尾句的断章取义，原文是说“如果没有足够的市场吸收回收利用的物质，废弃物实际上还会抑制使用过的材料的价格”。

单选题 Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ________.

单选题 It can be concluded from the passage that ________.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】归纳推理题。结论一般出现在文章结尾处。最后一段列举了recycling的种种好处：the least expensive，stimulates the local economy and trims the pollution control and energy costs，因此归结为A项“回收利用从经济上和环境上都值得提倡”。另外，根据核心词(recycling)原则也能推测出A项为正确答案。而B项“美国地方政府可以从回收利用中获得大的利益”，不是全文主要信息点C项“垃圾是原材料短缺的潜在补救方法”在文中未提及； D项垃圾填埋场仍将广泛运用在废品处理上”与最后一段第1句所说信息相反。