下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1 个最佳选项。 Paper or Plastic? Take a walk along t...

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问题 下面的短文有15处空白,请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1 个最佳选项。
Paper or Plastic?
Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay, and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water. They have made their____________ (1) into local waterways and, from there, into the bay, where they can____________ (2) wildlife. Piles of them show up in landfills (垃圾填埋地)and on city streets. Plastic bags also take an environmental toll(代价)in th e ____________ (3 ) of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.
Enter Annapolis and you will see plastic bags____________ (4 ) free in department stores and supermarkets. Alderman(市议员) Sam Shropshire has introduced a wellmeaning____________ ( 5 ) to ban retailers from distributing plastic shopping bags in Maryland’s capital. Instead, retailers would be required to ____________ (6) bags made of recycled paper and to sell reusable bags. The city of Baltimore is ____________ (7 ) a similar measure. Opponents of the____________ (8 ), however, argue that paper bags are harmful, too: They cost more to make, they ____________ ( 9 ) more resources to transport, and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic. The argument for depriving Annapolis residents____________ (10) their plastic bags is far from accepted. Everyone in this____________ (11) is right about one thing: Disposable shopping bags of any type are wasteful, and the best outcome would be for customers to ____________ (12) bags instead. Annapolis’s mayor is investigating how to hand out free, reusable shopping bags to city residents, a proposal that can proceed ___________ (13) of whether other bags are banned. A less-expensive alternative would be to encourage retailers to give ____________ (14) to customers who bring their own reusable bags. And this policy would be more____________ (15) if stores imitated furniture mega-retailer (超大零售商)Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter. A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags is not the answer
(8)

选项 A idea
B effect
C technology
D behavior

答案A

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