2013高考英语二轮阅读理解强化训练（08）及答案

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Recycling Resources

Increased population increases the need for natural resources and also increases waste products. Making a new useful product out of a waste product decreases (减少) our need for natural resources. Recycling means using something over again after it has been used once.

Have you ever seen a piece of recycled paper? About one third of all the paper products made each year are made from waste paper. For example, recycled paper is usually used to make paper sacks. Recycling paper, such as newspapers, re- duces the number of trees that must be cut each year to make new paper.

Each person wastes a lot of solid waste. In the United States, the average is eight kilograms of waste per person each day. Most of the waste is garbage and rubbish. Finding places to dispose (处理) of solid wastes is a major problem.

In many cities solid wastes are collected and the rubbish is burned in incinerator plants (焚化厂). Air pollut