In today’s throw away society, dealing with the city’s growing mountain of waste is an inereasing challenge for the city countil(市議會)。
Recently. Edinburgh is faced with the problem of dssposing of(處理)about250,000
Million tons of waster a year . Despite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner---largely through encouraging tecycling---its aging facilities such as the Powderhall landfill do not have the ability to deal with it.
The European Union(EU) has issued a new policy, regulating how such mountains of waster are to hr disposed of. The five councils (Edinburgh. East Lothian. West Lothian. Midlethian and Borders) face fine around $18million a year from 2013 it they don’t inerease recycling levels and rely less on landfill. With this in mind, the coumlls got together with the idea of building a lage incinerator plant (垃圾焚燒廠)to burn half of the waste produced in their districts. But the plan fell apart after the change of target levels by a new UK government waste policy which required that no more than 25% of the city’s waste should be disposed of in this way by 2025.
After the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city’s wast by train to a landfill site near Dunbar, offered an alternative soution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.
Since Powderhall is supposed to close in 2015, it seemed necessary for the members of the Edinburgh Council to accept the suggestion. But soon they turned it down—after 700 local objections reached them—because it would have meant hundreds of lorries a day making loud noise through heavily populated areas.
That still leaves eth council with a problem. By 2013,only50%of 1995 levels of waste will benllewed to be sent to landfill. Even if recveling large are met, there will still be a large amount of rubbish to be burnt up. Due build an Edinburgh and Midlothian councils have now decided to work together to build an ineinerator plant as time to find a solution is fast running out.
小題1:The main way of handling waste in a green manmer in Edinburgh is       .
A．recyelingB．restoringC．buryingD．burning
小題2:The five councils worked out a plan to build an incinerator plant to       .
A．reduce the roast of burying waste
B．meets the EU requirements
C．speed up waste recycling
D．tempter landfill sites
小題3:The city council of Edinburgh rejected the suggestion to open a huge landfill site near Portobello because     .
A．a(chǎn) name from a private company
B．the comelier was not interested in it
C．it was not supports by EU
D．the local poodle was waist it
小題4:What is the final dream an Edinburgh and Midlothian Country?
A．To open a new landfill nearby
B．To close the powder hall landfill in 2015
C．To set up a plan for burning waste
D．To persuade people to deduce their waste.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

【文章大意】這是一篇有關(guān)英國愛丁堡政府建立垃圾焚燒廠的報(bào)道。
小題1:
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。定位關(guān)鍵詞waste , a green manmer.根據(jù)文章第二段的Despite different ways to dispose of much of it in a green manner---largely through encouraging recycling可知答案。
小題2:
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。定位關(guān)鍵詞The five councils。根據(jù)文章第三段的內(nèi)容可知。
小題3:
.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。定位關(guān)鍵詞reject，找到文章第四段After the plan was abandoned, a private company which already transported millions of tons of the city’s wast by train to a landfill site near Dunbar, offered an alternative soution when it suggested opening a huge waste site near Portobello.可知答案。
小題4:
細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一句內(nèi)容可知答案。
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