Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 35 to 42
Garbage cans are not magical portals. Trash does not disappear when you toss it in a can. Yet, the average American throws away an estimated 1,600 pounds of waste each year. If there are no magic garbage fairies, where does all that trash go? There are four methods to managing waste: recycling, landfilling, composting, and incinerating. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses. Let's take a quick look at each.
Recycling is the process of turning waste into new materials. For example, used paper can be turned into paperboard, which can be used to make book covers. Recycling can reduce pollution, save materials, and lower energy use. Yet, some argue that recycling wastes energy. They believe that collecting, processing, and converting waste uses more energy than it saves. Still, most people agree that recycling is better for the planet than landfilling.
Landfilling is the oldest method of managing waste. In its simplest form, landfilling is when people bury garbage in a hole. Over time the practice of landfilling has advanced. Garbage is compacted before it is thrown into the hole. In this way more garbage can fit in each landfill. Large liners are placed in the bottom of landfills so that toxic garbage juice doesn't get into the ground water. Sadly, these liners don't always work. Landfills may pollute the local water supply. Not to mention that all of that garbage stinks. Nobody wants to live next to a landfill. This makes it hard to find new locations for landfills.
Compositing is when people pile up organic matter, such as food waste, and allow it to decompose. The product of this decomposition is compost. Compost can be added to the soil to make the soil richer and better for growing crops. While composting is easy to do onsite somewhere, like home or school, it's hard to do after the garbage gets all mixed up. This is because plastic and other inorganic materials must be removed from the compost pile or they will pollute the soil. There's a lot of plastic in garbage, which makes it hard to compost on a large scale.
One thing that is easier to do is burning garbage. There are two main ways to incinerate waste. The first is to create or harvest a fuel from the waste, such as methane gas, and burn the fuel. The second is to burn the waste directly. The heat from the incineration process can boil water, which can power steam generators. Unfortunately, burning garbage pollutes the air. Also, some critics worry that incinerators destroy valuable resources that could be recycled.
Usually, the community in which you live manages waste. Once you put your garbage in that can, what happens to it is beyond your control. But you can make choices while it is still in your possession. You can choose to recycle, you can choose to compost, or you can choose to let someone else deal with it. The choice is yours.
Which of the following serves as the best title for this passage?
Tiêu đề nào là phù hợp nhất cho đoạn văn
A. Phép thuật tái chế: Mang trở lại những gì từng bị mất
B. Tái chế, chôn rác và tạo phân bón: Cái nào tốt nhất cho bạn?
C. Thực hiện trách nhiệm của mình, làm thế nào để giải cứu trái đất bằng cách tái chế và ủ phân bón.
D. Các phương pháp quản lí rác thải: thuận lợi và bất lợi
Câu cuối đoạn 1: There are four methods to managing waste: recycling, landfilling, composting, and incinerating. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses. Let's take a quick look at each. (Có bốn phương pháp để quản lý chất thải: tái chế, chôn lấp, ủ phân và đốt rác. Mỗi phương pháp đều có điểm mạnh và điểm yếu riêng. Chúng ta hãy xem xét nhanh từng cái.)
Chọn D
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or Don your answer sheet to choose the word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 25 to 29
Humans are destroying the earth's tropical rain forests. About 80,000 square kilometers are being destroyed every year. About a quarter of the (25) ____________ comes from people cutting trees for fuel. Another quarter is to make grassland for their cattle. The (26) ____________ trees are cut down to sell the wood to start farms.
The population in cities all over the world is growing, and more and more wood is needed to build huge new buildings. For example, 5,000 trees from Sarawak rain forest in Malaysia were used to build just one tall building. (27) ____________ people continue cutting down that many trees in Sarawak rain forest, all the trees could be gone in eight years.
The world needs more food, and it (28) ____________ like a good idea to clear the rain forests and use the land for agriculture. Many people think that the land under these huge, thick forests must be in rich nutrients, but it isn't. This is another surprising thing about rain forests. Most of the land in tropical rain forest is very (29) ____________
Mark the letter A, B, C, or Don your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions
The mountainous region of the country is thinly populated. It has only 300 inhabitants.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three tin the pronunciation in each of the following questions.
I should have asked her for a plan of the house. If I ____________, I would have found everything.
It was not until he took off his dark glasses____________I realized he was a famous film star.
The fact that space exploration has increased dramatically in the past thirty years indicates that we are very eager to learn all we can about our solar system.
According to the passage which of the following best defines "incineration"?
Mark the letter A, B, C or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Thomas knows Paris like the back of his____________. He used to be a taxi driver there for 2 years.
To remove stains from permanent press clothing, carefully soaking in cold water before washing with a regular detergent.
Josh may get into hot water when driving at full speed after drinking.
Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
Julian dropped out of college after his first year. Now he regrets it.