Question

    This is always a busy time of year, but please don’t forget to recycle as much as you can.

Put in Your Recycling Bins: Cardboard — this includes all the boxes your presents came in but please remove any plastic packaging. Plastic bottles — all plastic bottles including fizzy drinks and cider bottles, as well as milk, shampoo, cleaning and washing-up liquid bottles.

Christmas trees can be recycled in your fortnightly Garden Waste Collection Service as long as they are small trees chopped into pieces no bigger than 3 inches or 75mm in diameter. For large trees please take them to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centers. Please note the Garden Waste Collection Service is suspended (暂停的) between Dec 26th and Jan 6th .

Glass bottles and jars — empty wine bottles can be taken to the bottle bank together with beer bottles and pickle (泡菜) jars. Clothes and shoes — for your old clothes, take them to your local clothing recycling bank.

Please Do NOT Place in Your Recycling Bins: Gift wrap — Christmas gift wrapping does not contain much paper. It is often layered with foil (箔纸) and plastic which can’t be recycled. Plastic carrier bags — please do not put your recyclables in these as it makes it difficult to sort the contents. Plastic packaging — Although plastic packaging may have symbols which suggest it can be recycled, it is made of different types of plastic and there are no cost-effective ways to recycle it at present.

1.What should we do before putting the cardboard into recycling bins?

A.Cutting it into pieces. B.Collecting the gifts.

C.Taking off its plastic packages. D.Emptying the packages.

2.Why shouldn’t we put plastic packaging into recycling bins?

A.Because it is hard to sort the content.

B.Because it is made of different type of foil.

C.Because the symbols on it advise us not to do so.

D.Because cost-effective ways to recycle it haven’t been found.

3.What can we learn from the text?

A.The Christmas is the season for recycling.

B.Christmas trees must be kept for the future.

C.All the empty bottles can be put into the recycling bins.

D.There is a recycling center for the old clothes and shoes.

Answer

1.C

2.D

3.D

【解析】

这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了可放入回收箱里的一些回收物品和他们各自的回收方式，以及不可回收的物品和原因。

1.

细节理解题。根据Put in Your Recycling Bins部分中Cardboard — this includes all the boxes your presents came in but please remove any plastic packaging.可知硬纸板——这包括所有你送礼物的盒子，但请去掉所有的塑料包装。由此可知，在把纸板放入回收箱之前，我们应该取下塑料包装。故选C。

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细节理解题。根据Please Do NOT Place in Your Recycling Bins部分中Plastic packaging — Although plastic packaging may have symbols which suggest it can be recycled, it is made of different types of plastic and there are no cost-effective ways to recycle it at present.可知塑料包装——虽然塑料包装上可能有可回收的标志，但它是由不同种类的塑料制成的，目前还没有经济有效的回收方法。由此可知，不把塑料包装放进回收箱，是因为还没有找到经济有效的回收方法。故选D。

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推理判断题。根据Put in Your Recycling Bins部分中Clothes and shoes — for your old clothes, take them to your local clothing recycling bank.可知衣服和鞋子——把旧衣服送到当地的衣物回收中心。由此可知，有旧衣服和旧鞋子的回收中心。故选D。