Read the following passage and choose the best option for each of blanks.
If you're an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a (1) _______ of our wasteful, throw-away society. But there seems little doubt it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2) ______, even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the evil ─ it's the way society chooses to use and (3) _______them.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal ─ non-renewable natural (4) _______. We (5) _______well over three million tones of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high (6) _______of our annual consumption is in the form of packaging, and this (7) _______about seven percent by weight of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but every little of it is though the plastic recycling (8) _______is growing fast.
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal ─ non-renewable natural (4) _______.
Trả lời bởi giáo viên
A. processes (n) các quá trình
B. resources (n) nguồn
C. products (n) sản phẩm
D. fuels (n) nhiên liệu
Ta thấy oil, gas, coal – đây đều là các “non-renewable natural resources” (những nguồn tài nguyên thiên nhiên không thể tái tạo)
Cụm cố định như “(non-)renewable (natural) resources/energy –những nguốn tài nguyên/năng lượng (không) thể tái tạo”
Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal ─ non-renewable natural (4) resources.
Tạm dịch: Bản thân chất dẻo không thực sự là thứ xấu xa ─ đó là cách xã hội lựa chọn để sử dụng và cung cấp tài nguyên cho chúng.
Hướng dẫn giải:
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