________ FRUIT JUICE CONTAINS NO EXTRA SUGAR. SWEETPART C

35. ________ fruit juice contains no extra sugar. SWEET

PART C: READING COMPREHENSION (25 pts)

Question I: Fill in each of the blanks with one suitable word. (10 pts)

DEALING WITH WAST PLASTIC

Every year people throw away miliions of tonnes of plastic bottles, boxes and wrapping.

These create huge mountains of waste that are extremely hard to get (36) _______ of. Now a

new recycling process promises to reduce this problem by turning old plastic into (37)

_____.

Scientists have (38) ______ a long time to develop their ideas because waste plastic has

always been a bigger problem than (39) ______ like waste paper. You can bury plastic but it

takes many years to break down. If you (40) ______ it, it just becomes another form of

pollution. A few products, for example bottles, can be reused, but it is (41) _____ or difficult

to do this with a lot of plastic products.

Now a group of companies has developed a new method of (42) _____ that could save

almost any plastic (43) __________. Nearly every type of waste plastic can be used: it does

(44) ______ have to be sorted. In addition, labels and ink may be left on the products. (45)

______ is simply mixed together and heated to more than 400 degrees centigrades so that it

melts. It is then cooled, producing a waxy substance that can be used to make new plastic

products.

Question II: Choose the best answer from A, B, C or D to fill in the gaps in the following

passage.(10 pts)

In the age (46) ______ highly-developed telephoned networks and electronic mail, it seems

that fewer and fewer people are (47) _____time to sit down and write letters to friends and

relatives. For hundreds of years, letters were the only way to (48) _____ in contact with

people who were any distance away and letter- writing was (49)______as an important skill

for all learned people to master.

Gradually, (50)______, the importance of witing letters is descreasing to a point that the

majority of us (51)______make a special effort to turn out something worthwhile when we

are apply for a job or make a complaint. In business circles the (52)____is for routine

communications to become shorter. Even though clients may appriciate a detailed letter, an

employee who sends out long letter is often regarded as (53)_____.Many people prefer the

telephone in all circumstances and its (54)_____is essential in many situations but how often

have you put the telephone down, (55)_____with what you have managed to say? I don’t

think. I’ll throw my pen away yet.