2012.12大学英语六级考试预测卷02-速读

PartII Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15 minutes)


注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

1. As the landfill sites are filling up,the waste experts are trying to __
A) invent robots to clean places up
B) move the waste into other planets
C) put effort into landfill mining
D) persuade people to reduce the waste

2. What was the purpose of Hiriya garbagedump in Israel?
A) To recover the mineral fine-particle.
B) To burn waste to generate energy.
C) To recycle steel from waste.
D) To enlarge local fruit farms.

3. The pilot programme in Edinburg in the1980s was found to be __
A) practical
B) profitable
C) inefficient
D) economical

4. The prospects of digging up the dump are now more promising because __
A) the recycling industry becomes bigger
B) the waste recycling technology has been improved
C) more attention are paid to the wasteproblem
D) the government puts more funds for the project

5. It is estimated that the aluminumAmerican throw into landfill every year totally worths __
A) 680,000
B) 2,700
C) 1.83 billion
D) 18 million

6. Eddy current magnets a e used to ____
A) separate metals from the waste
B) sort different types of plastics
C) recycle aluminum from the dump
D) prevent metals from entering the dump

7. What's the controversy over waste burning?
A) It is not effective enough.
B) It may release poisonous substances.
C) Lots of funds have to be put into it.
D) The technique is not fully-developed.

8. The Alcoa spokesman Kevin Lowrey thoughtso far digging metals up from the dump is not ____
9. Reid Lifset shared the opinion that thebenefits from landfill mining didn't _________ the costs.
10. Advocates of landfill mining believethat if planned with more imagination and sober assessments, landfill miningcan be ________