_____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____ (23-28) CHOOSE THE WORD OR PHRASE THAT BEST FITS THE BLANK SPACE IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

1/ _____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____

(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

About 50 or so kinds of modern plastic are made fromoil, gas, or coal-non-renewable natural

resources. We (23)___________ well over three million tones of the stuff in Japan each year and,

sooner or late, most of it is thrown away. A high (24) ________ of our annual consumption is in

the form of packaging and this constitutes about seven percent by weight, of our domestic (25)

___________ . Almost all of it can be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling

(26) ________ is growing fast. The plastic itself has extremely rich energy. It also has higher

calorific (27) _________ than coal and one (28) __________ of “ recovery” strongly favored by

plastic manufacturers is the conversion of waste plastic into a fuel.