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　　Paper or plastic?

　　Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay, and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water. Ever since these now ubiquitous symbols of American super-consumption showed up in the supermarkets, plastic shopping bags have made their __1__ into local waterways, and from there, into the bay, where they can __2__ wildlife. Piles of them ? the __3__ takes centuries to decompose ? show up in landfills and on city streets. Plastic bags also take an environmental toll in the form of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.

　　Enter Annapolis __4__ you will see plastic bags distributed free in department stores and supermarkets. Alderman Sam Shropshire has introduced a well-meaning proposal to ban retailers __5__ distributing plastic shopping bags in Maryland’s capital. Instead, retailers would be required to offer bags __6__ recycled paper and to sell reusable bags. The city of Baltimore is considering a similar measure. Opponents of the idea, however, argue that __7__ bags are harmful, too: they cost more to make, they consume more __8__ to transport, and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic. The argument for depriving Annapolis residents of their plastic bags is __9__ accepted. Everyone in this __10__ is right about one thing: disposable shopping bags of any type are __11__, and the best outcome would be for customers to reuse bags instead. Annapolis’s mayor is investigating how to hand out free, reusable shopping bags to city residents, a proposal that can proceed regardless of whether other bags are banned. A less-expensive __12__ would be to encourage retailers to give discounts to customers __13__ bring their own, reusable bags, a policy that a spokesman for the supermarket Giant Food says its chain already has in place. And this policy would be more __14__ if stores imitated furniture mega-retailer Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter. A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags, which would merely replace some forms of pollution with others, is not the __15__.

　　1. A. track B. path C. way D. road

　　2. A. harm B. help C. keep D. nurture

　　3. A. element B. mixture C. matter D. material

　　4. A.or B. and C. but D. so

　　5. A.from B. at C. out of D. into

　　參考答案：C,A,D,B,A

　　6. A. made out B. made up C. made of D. made into

　　7. A. cloth B. paper C. plastic D. synthetic

　　8. A. land B. resources C. oxygen D. water

　　9. A. on the contrary B. at any rate

　　C.far from D. by contrast

　　10. A. competition B. fight C.quarrel D. debate

　   參考答案：C,B,B,C,D

　　11. A. durable B. useful C. wasteful D. necessary

　　12. A. alternative B. mission C. project D. invention

　　13. A. when B. who C. whom D.what

　　14. A. effective B. disliked C. expensive D. useless

　　15. A. suggestion B. statement C. reply D. answer

　　參考答案：C,A,B,A,D

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