Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose. (10 pts) If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)______ even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are ...

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose. (10 pts)

If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)______ even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)______ – it’s the way society choose to use and abuse them. Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-renewable natural (4)______. We import well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high proportion of our annual consumption is in the (5)______ of packaging, and this (6)______ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (7)______ is growing fast. The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (8)______ than coal and one (9)______ of ‘recovery’ strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the (10)______ of waste plastic into a fuel.

But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous (2)____