2008年度全国职称外语等级考试试卷及答案（理工类B级）
第6部分：完形填空（第51～65题, 每题1分, 共15分）
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_______(51)into local waterways and, from there, into the bay, where they can________(52)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 the__________(53)of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.
Enter Annapolis and you will see plastic bags_______(54)free in department stores and supermarkets. Alderman（市议员）Sam Shoeshine has introduced a well-meaning_______(55)to ban retailers from distributing plastic shopping bags up Maryland's capital. Instead, retailers would be required to _______ (56) recycled paper and to sell reusable bags. The city of Baltimore is _______(57)a similar measure. Opponents of the _______(58), however, argue that paper bags are harmful, too：They cost more to make; they _______ (59)more resources to transport, and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic. The argument for depriving Annapolis residents_________(60)their plastic bags is far from accepted. Everyone in this ________(61)is right about one thing: Disposable shopping bags of any type are wasteful, and the best outcome would be for customers to ________(62)bags instead. Annapolis' mayor is investigating how to hand out free, reusable shopping bags to city residents, a proposal that can proceed ________(63)of whether other bags are banned. A less-expensive alternative would be to encourage retailers to give be more________(64)to customers who bring their own reusable bags. And this policy would_________(65)if stores imitated furniture mega-retailer（超人零售商）Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter. A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags is not the answer.
51. A difference B point C progress D way
52. A harm B help C keep D protect
53. A light B form C time D place
54. A dropped B packed C put D distributed
55. A proposal B service C system D change
56. A open B fill C offer D hold
57. A getting B considering C replacing D improving
58. A idea B effect C technology D behavior
59. A limit B provide C destroy D consume
60. A from B with C of D in
61. A debate B organization C project D program
62. A reform B reuse C repair D reduce
63. A instead B because C regardless D careless
64. A examples B instructions C discounts D receipts
65.A impressive B effective C formal D typical
