定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校2015高考英语阅读理解训练（3）（答案）
【2015高考复习】阅读理解
Two things I really believe in—saving money and saving the planet，and it's even better when I can do something that accomplishes both at the same time.
Rainwater harvesting is just such a thing.In the near future，rainwater harvesting will be as common as twelveyearold girls carrying cell phones.陌生老朋友
Many countries already rely heavily on rainwater.Bermuda，for example，every building on the small island collects the rainwater from its roof and stores it for later u.However，形容美食的词语America_is_just_slightly_behind_the_curve.
There are many ways you can begin harvesting rainwater and most of them are easy and inexpensive.U rain barrels to collect the water that would run off of your roof.You'd be surprid how fast a fiftygallon barrel will fill with free，usable water.New building construction offers some good ways to gather rainwater，and the cost of installation is usu
ally offt by reduced usage very quickly.Roof drains can be piped into underground tanks，where a pump can draw it up as needed.
The rainwater can even be treated to make but wait—there's more！If that rainwater were not collected，but allowed to run over your lawn，into the street and eventually to a stormwater treatment facility，it would pick up all sorts of pollutants on its journey—fertilizers and pesticides from the grass，motor oil，antifreeze and such from the roads，and who knows what el.
Depending on where you live，the stormwater may be piped to a treatment plant or it may run in natural channels to allow nature to remove the pollutants.Either way，the treatment of stormwater is costly.If you reduce the amount of stormwater runoff from your home or office，you reduce the need for treatment.
Water is rapidly becoming one of our most precious resources and it is not as abundant as you may think.In the year 2000，the United States ud approximately 326 billion gallons of fresh water per day.
20．What does the underlined ntence “America is just slightly behind the curve” mean?
A．Americans don't show interest in harvesting rainwater.
B．There is no need for Americans to harvest rainwater.
C．Harvesting rainwater in America is not that common.
D．Americans can't collect rainwater from the roof correctly.
答案 C [句意理解题。从第三段“Many countries already rely heavily on rainwater.Bermuda，”可知，的情况与Bermuda相反，在利用雨水这方面还跟不上潮流。故选C项。]
21．According to the passage，harvesting rainwater can ________.
A．benefit you economically and ecologically
B．benefit your health and the surroundings around
C．promote the development of economy and peace
D．make us live a better life in the near future
答案 A [细节理解题。从第一段“Two things I really believe in—saving money and saving the planet”可知， 收集雨水，无论从经济上还是环保方面都是非常有益的。故选A。]
22．What is the fourth paragraph mainly concerned with?
A．How to take advantage of the rainwater.
休想 B．How to fix the equipment under the ground.
C．How to reduce the cost of new equipment.
D．How to harvest rai十大品牌生态板nwater effectively.
答案 D [主旨大意题。从第四段“There are many ways you can begin harvesting rainwa
ter and most of them are easy and inexpensive”可知，该段主要讲的是如何收集雨水，故选D。]
16英文23．It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A．it is not easy to make rainwater drinkable
B．the author calls on people to harvest rainwater
C．the stormwater cannot be made drinkable
D．people can treat the stormwater very easily
答案 B [推理判断题。从最后一段的“Water is rapidly becoming one of our most precious resources and it is not as abundant as you may think”可推断出来，作者建议我们收集雨水，故选B。]
阅读理解
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In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (=drink) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw material for new products, but becau few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it wound end up buried in landfills(垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few us for cond-hand plastic.
Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence post, paint brushes, etc.
As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply parating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a cond life — and until economic arrangements exist to give that cond life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for ud materials.
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Shrinking landfill space and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more cloly at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.
