2011年12月大学英语六级考试 cloze完形填空及答案
part v cloze
the truth about plastic
by bryan walsh thursday, july 10, 2008 （time magazine）
if you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell jeanne haegele? last september, the 28-year-old chicago resident62. resolvedto cut plastics out of her life. the marketing coordinator was concerned about63. whatthe chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. she was also worried about the damage all the plastic64. rubbishwas doing to the environment. so she65. hoppedon her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didn't66. includeplastic. "i went in and67. barelybought anything," haegele says. she did68. purchasesome canned food and a carton (纸盒) of milk---69. onlyto discover later that both containers were70. linedwith plastic resin(树脂). "plastic," she says, "just seemed like it was in everything."
she's right. back in the 1960s, plastic was well71. onits way to becoming a staple of american life. the u.s. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 2005--27 million tons of which72. endedup in landfills. our food and water come73. wrappedin plastic. it's used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. but the74. infinitelyadaptable substance has its dark side. environmentalists fret about the petroleum needed to make it. parents worry about the possibility of75.toxicchemicals making their way from76. householdplastic into children's bloodstreams. which means haegele isn't the only person trying to cut plastic out of her life--she isn't77. eventhe only one blogging about this kind of78. endeavor. but those who've tried know it's79. farfrom easy to go plastic-free. "these things seem to be so common80. thatit is practically impossible to avoid coming into81. contactwith them," says frederick vom saal, a biologist at the university of missouri.
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