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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

 A Plastic Australia

Did you know Australia uses around four billion plastic check-out bags a year? If you tied all of them together, it would create a chain long enough to go around the world 25 times! And that's only Australia---globally hundreds of billions are used! Only a small number are recycled, so where do the rest end up?

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Environmentalists reckon thousands of birds and marine animals die each year because they swallow the plastic or get caught up in it. In 2000, a whale died on a beach in Queensland---6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy.

    54      But why? What are they made of that makes them so bad?

Well, when fossil fuels like oil and coal are processed, a gas is produced that can be made into polyethylene---which is plastic! It’s turned into all sorts of products.

What’s so bad about it? Well during the process harmful green house gases are emitted. Any polyethylene, or plastic, takes hundreds of years to be destroyed.     55    

So is there an alternative to plastic bags? We haven’t always used them---back in the 60s it was paper bags and boxes. And now reusable and biodegradable bags have been introduced. But some people reckon the biodegradable ones aren't up to the job and they're more expensive to make.

So what's the solution?

Government ministers met recently to talk about it, but no one could agree. South Australia has decided to go it alone and ban the bags from next year. Victoria is going to trial a program where people pay up to 25 cents for each bag. But some people reckon that's not fair because groceries are already expensive. Others reckon it won't work anyway because lazy shoppers will just pay the extra.

It’s a big debate. The Government will hold another meeting in six months. By then we will have used another two billion plastic bags.

 

A. Green bags may not be the solution to the problem but they are reuseable unlike plastic.

B. Now even if shopping bags make it to dumps they're still bad for the environment.

C. We’ve all seen them clinging to trees, drifting along footpaths and swirling around in oceans.

D. So once plastic bags are made, they hang around for a very long time.

Answer 1

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