Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

In the UK we each use about two hundred metal food and drink cans every year. Metal cans are popular because they are convenient, easy to store and unbreakable. But when you have finished with a can, what do you do with it? Do you throw it away and forget all about it?

Probably! But behind the scenes there are people whose job it is to make sure that the metal is never wasted. In fact, recycling or reusing metal cans is so successful that every day of the year more than five million cans start new lives in new metal products.

After you have thrown away your can, what happens? Well, first of all it is collected by the men who empty your dustbin each week and taken to a landfill, together with all the other household rubbish. Then the rubbish is stored and the metal cans are taken separately to a special factory where they find their way back into your home in the form of knives and forks, garden equipment and, of course, food and drink cans. So the next time you open your drink, just remember where you can may have been!

36. What is the passage mainly about?

A. What happens to old cans.                         B. How metal is made.

C. How rubbish is collected.                          D. How the soft drink industry works.

37. How do we know that reusing metal cans is very successful?

A. Every person uses 5000 cans a year.                     

B. Over 5,000,000 cans arc recycled daily.

C. All cans and tins are now made from metal.         

D. It reduces the amount of waste to collect.

38. Which is closest in meaning to “rubbish” in the last paragraph?

A. food                                   B. equipment               C. garbage                   D. water

39. After being taken to the landfill, empty metal cans

A. are lumped into high quality metal.

B. are washed and sent back to our homes

C. are separated from rubbish and set to a special factory to be recycled.

D. are made into knives, forks and garden equipment.

40. According to the passage, what is our attitude to old cans?

A. We are making things difficult for the dustbin men.

B. We are not interested in what happens to them.

C. We could help by sending them to the factory.

D. We should be more careful where we throw them.