Question

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes hauling a case or two of bottled water into your home. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?
But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.
Imagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that’s not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the faucet is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may leach into the water.
People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.
Plastic bottle recycling can help—instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy fleece clothing.
Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.
Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.
Betty McLaughlin, who runs an organization called the Container Recycling Institute, says we should try using fewer bottles: “If you take one to school in your lunch, don’t throw it away—bring it home and refill it from the tap for the next day. Keep track of how many times you refill a bottle before you recycle it.”
And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Title	Drinking Water: Bottled or From the Tap?
【小題1】      situation	Americans consume the 【小題2】     bottled water in the world.
【小題3】       for people’s preference for bottled water	Bottled water is of higher【小題4】      .
	It’s more 【小題5】         for people to drink bottled water.
Problems with bottled water	The 【小題6】       of plastic bottles use lots of fossil fuels.
	Water bottles we use cause serious 【小題7】       .
【小題8】     the passage offers	Use bottles 【小題9】       of glass or steel.
	Use a refillable plastic bottle as many times as 【小題10】     before recycling.

 

Answer 1

【小題1】Present 
【小題1】 most   
【小題1】Reasons   
【小題1】 quality  
【小題1】convenient
【小題1】production   
【小題1】pollution   
【小題1】Suggestions/Tips  
【小題1】made   
【小題1】possible

解析【小題1】考查歸納詞：右邊的內(nèi)容講的是美國(guó)現(xiàn)在的形勢(shì)：可知填Present 
【小題1】詞義歸納題：從第二段的句子：In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world,可知填 most   
【小題1】詞義歸納題：從第四段的句子：So why don’t more people drink water straight from the kitchen faucet?可知填Reasons   
【小題1】詞義歸納題：從第五段的句子：Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap,可知填 quality  
【小題1】詞性轉(zhuǎn)化題：從第三段的句子：That’s about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.
可知填production   
【小題1】詞性轉(zhuǎn)化題：從第二段的句子：But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment.可知填pollution   
【小題1】歸納詞，從右邊的內(nèi)容可知填Suggestions/Tips  
【小題1】詞義歸納題：從第五段的句子：they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a refillable steel container instead of plastic.可知填made   
【小題1】考查詞組：as …as possible可知填possible