Unit 10: Recycling - Read

Choose the word (a, b, c, or d) that best fits each of the blank spaces. Don’t use disposable products. In a single year, people (1)____the United States use enough disposable diapers (2)_____to the moon and back seven times. If you (3)____disposable products, use products made from (4)_____ materials. Also, recycle whenever possible. Recycling on aluminum can saves (5)_____energy to run a TV (6)_____three hours.

Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it. You can recycle many types of glass. Glass food and beverage containers can be reused and recycled many times. (In fact, only bulbs, ceramic glass, dishes, and window glass can’t be recycled.) Glass is made from soda ash, sand, and lime. If it’s thrown away, it stays there indefinitely because glass never breaks down into its original ingredients. To be recycled, glass is sorted by color, crushed into small pieces, and melted down into a liquid. Then, it is molded into new glass containers.