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The wandering ship was a dramatic symbol for a problem plaguing our age. In 1987, the ship, loaded with thousands of tons of New York garbage, spent weeks wandering from one port to another in search of a dump before finally returning home, mission unaccomplished.
New York, like other communities throughout the world is running out of space to put its trash. As throwaway societies, the US and other industrialized countries expect their garbage to be picked up by trucks that magically transported the refuse to some out-of-sight incinerator
(焚化炉) or dump. But in the developing counties of Asia, Africa and Latin America, thousands of tons of trash collected daily are thrown into open dumps, where it feeds huge populations of rats that swarm through poor neighborhoods.
"The world is literally swimming in garbage," says a scientist. "Communities worldwide are being forced to confront the problem." Green Peace spokesman Bryan Bence adds, "The crisis in garbage stems in part from the fact that we've ignored long-term disposal problem in favor of cheap quick fixes."
The garbage glut (过剩) has inspired many communities in the U.S., Japan and Western Europe to start recycling programs. Once considered a curious counter culture activity recycling has moved firmly into the mainstream.
Recycling involves separating usable products from trash, processing them so they can be substituted for more expensive raw materials and returning them to the marketplace as parts of new products. Many countries now have mandatory recycling programs, and others plan to follow the trend soon. Most notably, Japan has stood out as a model and leader of the waste management trend, recycling an estimated 65 percent of its waste. "That's what we should do, to the garbage crisis", says David Antonioli, a staff member with the New York Public Interest Research Corp. "The earth is not a dump!"
According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE？
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For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In 【C1】______ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend 【C2】______ can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are 【C3】______ readers. Most of us develop poor reading 【C4】______ at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency 【C5】______ in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have 【C6】______ meaning until they are strung together into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. 【C7】______ , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to 【C8】______ words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over 【C9】______ you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which 【C10】______ down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as 【C11】______ reads.
To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an 【C12】______ , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate 【C13】______ the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, 【C14】______ word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first 【C15】______ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but also your comprehension will improve.
【C1】______
According to the passage, which procedure is NOT involved in garbage recycling？
What is the author's attitude towards the change？
They had to go on looking for two months before they eventually found a house that ______
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