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问题详情：
Drive through any suburb in the US today, and it's hard to miss the recycling bins that have become companions to America's trash cans. Recycling has become common, as people recognize the need to care for the environment. Yet most people's recycling consciousness extends only as far as paper, bottles, and cans. People seldom find themselves facing the growing problem of ewaste.
Ewaste rapidly increases as the technofashionable frequently upgrade to the most advanced devices, and the majority of them end up in landfills (垃圾填埋地). Some people who track such waste say that users throw away nearly 2 million tons of TVs, VCRs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics every year. Unless we can find a safe replacement, this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water with dangerous toxins (毒素), such as lead, mercury, and arsenic. Burning the waste also dangerously contaminates the air.
However, ewaste often contains reusable silver, gold, and other electrical materials. Recycling these materials reduces environmental problems by reducing both landfill waste and the need to look for such metals, which can destroy ecosystems.
A growing number of states have adopted laws to ban dumping ewaste. Still, less than a quarter of this waste will reach lawful recycling programs. Some companies advertising safe disposal in fact merely ship the waste to some developing countries, where it still ends up in landfills. These organizations prevent progress by unsafely disposing of waste in an outofsight, outofmind location.
However, the small but growing number of cities and corporations that do handle ewaste responsibly represents progress toward making the world a cleaner, better place for us all.
篇章导读：本文是一篇说明文。随着技术的不断更新，人们日益关注垃圾的回收再利用，回收普通垃圾已经成为世人的习惯。然而，合理回收电子废弃物是环保领域的重要任务和课题。
5．What can we infer from the first paragraph?
A．Many Americans now have access to recycling bins.
B．Ewaste cannot be put into trash cans in the US.
C．Most Americans have realized the dangers of ewaste.
D．Most of America's trash cans are made of recycled material.
6．What can best replace the underlined word “contaminates” in Paragraph 2?
A．Pollutes. B．Heats.
C．Absorbs. D．Reduces.
7．How does the author feel about burying ewaste in landfills?
A．It's important. B．It's unsafe.
C．It's acceptable. D．It's uncommon.
8．What's the author's purpose in writing this text?
A．To tell us how to recycle ewaste.
B．To talk about the future of ewaste.
C．To discuss if it's necessary to recycle ewaste.
D．To encourage us to deal with ewaste properly.
【回答】
5.A 推理判断题。根据第一段第二句可知，在美国，废弃物的回收利用变得很普遍，因为人们已经意识到需要关注环境。所以，A项(很多美国人可以利用回收箱)符合题意，故选A。
6.A 词义猜测题。根据第二段中的“this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water with dangerous toxins (毒素), such as lead, mercury, and arsenic”可知，这些电子污染会进入土地，污染到水源，那么燃烧污染物可能会污染空气。由此可推断出contaminates的意思与pollutes相近，即“毒害，污染”，故选A。
7.B 推理判断题。根据第二段倒数第二句中的“this ewaste may get into the ground and poison the water”和第四段尾句中的“These organizations prevent progress by unsafely ...”可知，只是把电子垃圾放在看不见的垃圾填埋场，但仍旧不安全，因为它还在那里，分析选项可知B正确。
8.D 推理判断题。通读全文可知，人们对垃圾的回收普遍关注，回收普通垃圾已经成为习惯。但随着科技的发展，合理回收电子垃圾成为现代废弃物回收的重点。故本文的目的是鼓励我们合理处理电子垃圾，故选D。
知识点：科普环保类阅读
题型：阅读理解
