The following is a true story. It happened in the northern end of Queensland, Australia, where all kinds of animals live in the forest.

Lisa, a 33-year-old woman, went to prepare lunch in the kitchen, leaving Barney, her three-year-old son, playing by himself in the back garden.

Suddenly, a sharp cry of Barney came into the mother’s ears, and Lisa rushed into the backyard in a hurry and found a big snake entwining the little child with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy as its delicious dish! It was a boa(蟒)! Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She made up her mind to save her son from the snake’s mouth. It was fearless mother love that made Lisa forget what she faced. She took up an old hoe from the ground and beat the boa with all her might. One...two... With the hoe, Lisa beat the snake repeatedly, but useless. The little boy’s voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa’s heart was broken and she got nearly mad.

Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opening her mouth and bit into the boa’s back as if trying to eat a rare steak(牛排). Lisa was really mad!

Blood was spurting(喷射) out of the boa’s body and covered most of Lisa’s body. The boa was so badly wounded that it let go of(松开) Barney and moved back into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a man had such terrible sharp teeth! On halfway home, the boa died.

　　 It was fearless mother love that saved the little boy.

When she rushed into the back garden, Lisa found______

A. a boa eating her son

B. her son was playing with a big snake

C. her son in danger of losing his life

D. her son was fighting with a boa

Lisa failed in fighting against the boa at first just because ______.

A. she was bitten by the boa

B. the boa was too strong

C. the hoe was too sharp

D. she was afraid that she would hurt her son

Lisa bit the snake because ______.

A. she was mad

B. she thought her teeth were much sharper than the boa

C. her son was entwined by the boa

D. she hadn’t got any other way to fight with the snake

What does the underlined word “entwining” probably mean?

A. Biting.                   

B. Twisting or winding sth. around.  

C. Eating.                   

D. Being closely connected with  

　　In 1993, New York State ordered stores to pay money for those who returned beverage（饮料）containers. Within a year, consumers (people who buy goods) had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound up buried in landfills（垃圾填埋场）. The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for secondhand plastic.

　　Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying throwaway plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.

　　As, the New York experience shows, recycling includes more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A thrown-away thing remains a thrown-away thing until somebody figures out how to give it a second life--and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without enough markets to take in materials collected for recycling, throw always actually reduce prices for used materials.

　　Making landfill space become smaller and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management choice. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal(action of getting rid of sth. ), which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also forces the local economy to develop quickly by providing jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined（纯净的）material.

(1) The returned plastic bottles in New York used to ________.

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A．be turned into raw materials

B．be separated from other rubbish

C．have a second-life value

D．end up somewhere underground

(2) The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ________.

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A．how to reduce their recycling costs

B．to sell them at a high price

C．how to turn them into useful things

D．to lower the prices for used materials

(3) Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ________.

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A．recycling causes little pollution

B．other methods are more expensive

C．recycling has great interest for the jobless

D．local governments find it easy to manage

(4) It can be concluded from the passage that ________.

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A．recycling is to be attractive both economically and environmentally（环境）

B．local governments in the U. S. can expect to earn a lot from recycling

C．rubbish is a hidden cure for the shortage of raw materials

D．landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal