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This is always a busy time of year, but please don’t forget to recycle as much as you can.
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Put in Your Recycling Bins:
Greetings cards and envelopes
Cardboard --- this includes all the boxes your presents came in but please remove any plastic packaging.
Cans and tins --- empty food tins and drink cans.
Plastic bottles --- all plastic bottles including fizzy drinks and cider bottles, as well as milk, shampoo, cleaning and washing-up liquid bottles.
Newspapers and magazines --- don't forget to recycle the TV listings, yesterday’s newspapers.
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Christmas trees can be recycled in your fortnightly Garden Waste Collection Service as long as they are small trees chopped into pieces no bigger than 3 inches or 75mm in diameter. For disposal of larger trees please take these to your local Household Waste and Recycling Centers.
Please note the Garden Waste Collection Service is suspended between 26th December and 6th January.
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Glass bottles and jars --- empty wine bottles can be taken to the bottle bank together with beer bottles and pickle （泡菜）jars.
Clothes and shoes --- don't throw your old clothes away and take them to your local clothing recycling bank.
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Please Do NOT Place in Your Recycling Bin:
Gift wrap --- Christmas gift wrapping does not contain much paper. It is often layered with foil（箔纸）and plastic which can’t be recycled.
Plastic carrier bags --- please do not put your recyclables in these as it makes it difficult to sort the contents.
Drinks cartons --- owing to the costs and environmental impacts associated with transporting these, it is more cost-effective to recycle them right here.
Plastic Packaging--- Although plastic packaging may have symbols which suggest it can be recycled, it is made of different types of plastic and there are no cost-effective ways to recycle it at present.
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21. What should we do before putting the cardboard into recycling bins?
A. Taking out the gifts. B. Separating it from plastic packages.
C. Emptying the packages. D. Collecting the boxes.
22. Why shouldn’t we put plastic packaging into recycling bins?
A. Because it can’t be recycled at present.
B. Because the symbols on it advise us not to do so.
C. Because it is made of different types of plastic.
D. Because cost-effective ways to recycle it have not been founded.
23. What can we learn from the text?
A. The Christmas is the season for recycling.
B. All empty bottles can be put into the recycling bins.
C. There is a recycling center for the old clothes and shoes.
D. Christmas trees must be kept for future use.
【答案】21. B 22. D 23. C
【解析】
这是一篇应用文。文章介绍了垃圾回收和处理的一些相关事项。
【21题详解】
细节理解题。根据Put in Your Recycling Bins部分Cardboard --- this includes all the boxes your presents came in but please remove any plastic packaging.（硬纸板——包括所有你送礼物的盒子，但请把所有的塑料包装拿掉）可知在把纸板放入回收箱之前，我们应该把它和塑料包装分开。故选B。
【22题详解】
细节理解题。根据Please Do NOT Place in Your Recycling Bin部分Plastic Packaging--- Although plastic packaging may have symbols which suggest it can be recycled, it is made of different types of plastic and there are no cost-effective ways to recycle it at present.（塑料包装——尽管塑料包装上可能有可以回收利用的标志，但它是由不同种类的塑料制成的，目前还没有经济有效的回收方法）可知我们不把塑料包装放进回收箱是因为经济有效的回收方法还没有被找到。故选D。
【23题详解】
细节理解题。根据Put in Your Recycling Bins部分Clothes and shoes --- don't throw your old clothes away, and take them to your local clothing recycling bank.（衣服和鞋子——不要扔掉你的旧衣服，把它们送到当地的衣物回收银行）可知有一个旧衣服和旧鞋子的回收中心。故选C。
