Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage In 1993. New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage(ut)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 or 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. Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more dosely at recyding. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recyding is already the least expensive waste-management option For every ton of waste recyded a city avoids paying for its disposal, which in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton. Recyding 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. 36. what regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers? A) Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles B Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling C)A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling D)Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them. 37. The returned plastic bottles in New York used to A)end up somewhere underground bbe turned into raw materials Chave a second-life value D be separated from other rubbish 38. the key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is Ato sell them at a profitable price Bhow to turn them into useful things c)how to reduce their recyding costs D)to lower the prices for used materials 39 Recyding ahs become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because A)local governments find it easy to manage Brecyding ahs great appeal for the jobless c recyding causes little pollution D)other methods are more expensive 40. It can be conduded from the passage that A)rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw material Blocal governments in the U.s. can expect big profits from recycling c recyding is to be recommended both economically and environmentallyPassage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage. 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. 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 saving 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. 36. What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers? A) Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles. B) Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling. C) A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling. D) Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them. 37. The returned plastic bottles in New York used to ________. A) end up somewhere underground B) be turned into raw materials C) have a second-life value D) be separated from other rubbish 38. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ________. A) to sell them at a profitable price B) how to turn them into useful things C) how to reduce their recycling costs D) to lower the prices for used materials 39. Recycling ahs become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ________. A) local governments find it easy to manage B) recycling ahs great appeal for the jobless C) recycling causes little pollution D) other methods are more expensive 40. It can be concluded from the passage that ________. A) rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials B) local governments in the U.S. can expect big profits from recycling C) recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally