Question

Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes for the recycling of waste. The “rubbish” could lose its meaning because everything which goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.

   The latest project is to take a city of around half a million in habitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.

Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is completed, the rubbish will be processed like this: first, it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that grounders and rollers break up everything that can be broken. Finally, the rubbish will pass under magnets(磁铁), which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastics will then be sorted out in the final stage.

The first full-scale giant recycling plants are, perhaps, fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps, some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.

1．The underlined phrase “be well on with” in Paragraph 1 most probably means___________?

   A．have completed what was started                                      B．have achieved a great deal in

   C．get ready to start                          D．put an end to

2．The first full-scale giant recycling plants__________.

       A．began to operate fifteen years ago 

       B．will probably take more than fifteen years to build.

C．will be built fifteen years later.

       D．will probably be in operation in fifteen years.

3．What’s the main reason for big cities to build their own recycling plants?

      A．To get big profits from those plants.       

       B．To deal with wastes in a better way.

      C．To protect the environment from pollution.

       D．To get raw material in other places

4．What is NOT mentioned as a part of the recycling process described in paragraph three?

      A．Breaking up whatever is breakable  

       B．Sharpening metal bars

      C．separating light elements from the heavy ones

      D．Sorting out small pieces of metal  

Answer 1

CDAB