研究生基础英语期末考试样卷

36. Which of the following is True according to the first two paragraphs?

A. The author thinks it is a good idea to dump the garbage in the Atlantic.

B. The United States’ landfills have already run out of space.

C. People are scared of not knowing where to dump the garbage.

D. What the New York garbage barge did in 1987 is notorious.

37. Almost 4% of the world’s greenhouse gases comes from ___________.

a) animal slurry

b) farm waste

c) municipal waste

d) industrial waste

38. We can infer from paragraph [4] that _______________________.

a) collecting and treating rubbish stimulates a country’s economy

b) the higher the rate of urbanization, the less waste the country produces

c) the poorer a country is, the more rubbish it produces

d) China, India and Brazil will probably spend more money disposing of their municipal

waste

39. According to paragraphs [5] and [6], ___________________________.

a) Bruce Parker thinks that waste should be routinely recycled

b) a large amount of steel and aluminium cans have been extracted from old landfills c) we no longer need dirty fossil fuels to provide fuel for cars and homes

d) waste is a potential natural resource

40. The word “plummeting” in paragraph [7] most probably means ______________.

a) disappointing

b) dropping down

c) rocketing

d) unexpected

41. In the author’s view, governments ___________________________.

a) should give the recycling firms financial help as soon as possible

b) should encourage people to buy goods that produce less waste

c) should inflict severe punishment on those who create waste

d) should only care about politically attractive issues

42. From the passage we can conclude that _____________________.

A. cooperation between governments is essential to waste management

B. the problem of waste is worse than ever

C. governments’ policies on treating waste remain largely incoherent

D. governments should tax landfills heavily and invest in waste-processing technologies