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The Truth About PlasticBy BRYAN WALSH Thursday, July 10, 2008 If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident 62. resolved to cut plastics out of her life. The marketing coordinator was concerned about 63. what the chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic 64. rubbish was doing to the environment. So she 65. hopped on her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didn't 66. include plastic. "I went in and 67. barely bought anything," Haegele says. She did 68. purchase some canned food and a carton of milk---69. only to discover later that both containers were 70. lined with plastic resin. "Plastic," she says, "just seemed like it was in everything."She's right. Back in the 1960s, plastic was well 71. on its way to becoming a staple of American life. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005--27 million tons of which 72. ended up in landfills. Our food and water come 73. wrapped in plastic. It's used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the 74. infinitely adaptable substance has its dark side. Environmentalists fret about the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about the possibility of 75.toxic chemicals making their way from 76. household plastic into children's bloodstreams. Which means Haegele isn't the only person trying to cut plastic out of her life--she isn't 77. even the only one blogging about this kind of 78. endeavor. But those who've tried know it's 79. far from easy to go plastic-free. "These things seem to be so common 80. that it is practically impossible to avoid coming into 81. contact with them," says Frederick vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri.62:resolved63:what64:rubbish65:hopped66:include67:barely68:purchase69:only70:lined71:on72:ended up73:wrapped74:infinitely75:toxic76:household77:even78:endeavor79:far80:that81:contact 

本文摘自2008年《美國時代周刊》7月10日科技版，標題為The Truth About Plastic，由環保主義者Jeanne Haegele如何在生活中發現無塑料制品的舉動引申到對塑料制品的思考。

62. 介詞搭配題。第一段開頭提出問題：如果你知道哪兒能找到一種非塑料包裝的洗發液，你能告訴Jeanne Haegele嗎？接著引出去年9月，這位28歲的芝加哥居民決心不在日常生活中使用塑料制品。resolve to do sth. 決定做某事,recover和from搭配，重新獲得…;remove… form 移開，免除…; retreat 撤退，退卻，均不符合題意。

63. 本題缺少一個連接詞構成介詞+賓語形式，根據句意判斷，這里是常見塑料制品化學物質對可能會對人體產生的影響，應用what。

64. 該題比較簡單，根據上下文不難推斷，這里是指塑料垃圾也會對環境產生危害。

65. 這里考查固定搭配。hop on 跳上…。

66. 根據前文，她跳上自行車去百貨商店尋找不含塑料的商品。consist of sth.組成…; induce 誘導，引起；compose 構成，組成，與要表達的意義相反。

67. 根據文章和常識可推斷出，不含塑料成分的商品很少，因此她幾乎買不到不含塑料的制品。此外，句末的anything也提示前面要用一個否定含義的詞語，因此選barely。

68. 和上句的bought對應，這里應該填purchase，“她沒買到…，她確實買到了….”;pursue 繼續，從事，追趕； preserve 保存，保護，維護； prescribe 開藥方。

69. 考查only to結構。她買到了罐裝的食品和盒裝牛奶，卻發現外包裝也是含有塑料樹脂的。only to 結果是，不料竟會，表轉折。

70. 考查短語意義。be lined with給某物安襯里；做內襯；這里指罐裝食品和盒裝牛奶的包裝內層是塑料樹脂。

71. 考查固定搭配。on one’s way to…在…的途中。

72. 考查固定短語意義。end up in 以…告終；以…結束，尤指經歷了一長段路程或過程。這里指垃圾2700萬垃圾都被填埋在垃圾填埋場里。

73. 詞義辨析。這里舉例說明20世紀60年代，塑料制品在美國人的日常生活中屢見不鮮，食品和水都采用塑料包裝。wrap 包，纏繞；adopt 采取，接受；adapt 使適應，改變；trap 誘捕，使陷入困境。