Comunidad: | Comunidad Valenciana |
Convocatoria: | Junio de 1997 |
Modalidad: | LOGSE - Todas |
Ejercicio: | 1er Ejercicio B |
Asignatura: | Inglés |
Obligatoriedad: | Obligatoria |
Duración: | 60 minutos |
Baremo: | Reading comprehension: 2 points (1 point each); True/False: 1 point (0.5 each); Find synonym: 1 point (0.5 each); Multiple choice: 2 points (0.5 each); Composition. 4 points. |
Read the following text:
RECYCLING
Today all Americans are familiar with the three R's of garbage collecting - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Glass bottles go in one bin, newspapers in another and plastic cartons in yet a third. Even the homeless are participating by going around the cities with huge plastic bags in search of recyclable aluminium cans and glass bottles.
America is, in fact, in the middle of the recycling era that began in 1987, the year a boat named Mobro 4000 wandered for thousands of miles trying to find a site to throw its cargo of Long Island garbage. That memorable episode convinced many Americans that there was no more room for garbage in landfills and that recycling was the only way to save money and our dangerously polluted environment. State and city laws went into effect shortly after this, obliging to recycle. The Federal Government passed laws, requiring public agencies, newspaper and other companies to buy recycled materials. Even school programs began including weekly garbage-dividing sessions.
But now, almost ten years after the Mobro 4000 incident, recycling is being reevaluated. Is recycling really an efficient and cost-effective way to handle a nation's garbage? John Tierney, the author of "Recycling is garbage," affirms that recycling programs offer mainly benefits to a few groups - politicians, public relations consultants, environmental organizations - while wasting money that should be invested in other genuine social and environmental problems. For him, recycling is a waste of time and money. Should we then continue throwing the garbage in a landfill?
Garbage = basura
I. Answer these question using your own words:
II. Are the following statements True (T) or False (F)?
III. Find a word or phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to...
IV. Choose a, b, c or d in each question below. Only one choice is correct.
Choose one of the following two topics:
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