Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrases that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
About 50 or so kinds modern plastic are made from oil, gas, or coal-non-renewable natural resources . We (15) _______ well over three million tons of the stuff in Japan each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high proportion of our annual consumption is in the (16) _______ of packaging and this constitutes about seven percent by weight, of our domestic (17) _______. Almost all of it can be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling industry is growing fast. The plastics themselves are extremely energy - rich – they have a higher calorific (18) _______ than coal and one method of “recovery” strongly (19) _______ by plastic manufactures is the conversion of waste plastic into a fuel
Điền ô số 19
A. argued
B. presented
C. desired
D. favored
Đáp án D
(to) be favored: được ủng hộ
Các đáp án còn lại:
A. (to) be argued: được tranh luận
B. (to) be presented: được trình bày
C. (to) be desired: được mong muốn
Dịch nghĩa: ...một phương pháp "phục hồi" được các nhà sản xuất nhựa ủng hộ mạnh mẽ là việc chuyển đổi nhựa thải thành nhiên liệu