Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay, and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water. Ever since these now ubiquitous (到处存在的) symbols of American super-consumption showed up in the supermarkets, plastic shopping bags have made their (51) into local waterways, and from there, into the bay, where they can (52) wildlife. Piles of them - the (53) takes centuries to decompose (分解) -- show up in landfills and on city streets. Plastic bags also take an environmental toll in the form of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them.
Enter Annapolis (54) you will see plastic bags distributed free in department stores and supermarkets. Alderman Sam Shropshire has introduced a well-meaning proposal to ban retailers (零售商)
(55) distributing plastic shopping bags in Maryland’s capital. Instead, retailers would be required to offer bags (56) recycled paper and to sell reusable bags. The city of Baltimore is considering a similar measure. Opponents of the idea, however, argue that (57) bags are harmful, too: they cost more to make, they consume more (58) to transport, and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic. The argument for depriving Annapolis residents (居民) of their plastic bags is (59) accepted. Everyone in this (60) is right about one thing: disposable shopping bags of any type are (61) , and the best outcome would be for customers to reuse bags instead. Annapolis’s mayor is investigating how to hand out free, reusable (可以再度使用的) shopping bags to city residents, a proposal that can proceed regardless of whether other bags are banned. A less-expensive (62) would be to encourage retailers to give discounts to customers (63) bring their own, reusable bags, a policy that a spokesman for the supermarket Giant Food says its chain already has in place. And this policy would be more (64) if stores imitated furniture mega-retailer Ikea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter. A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags, which would merely replace some forms of pollution with others, is not the (65) .

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There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great (16) was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man (17) heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were (18) inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change (19) . There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. (20) them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.
The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies (21) sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new (22) was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking (23) ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, (24) their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. (25) first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

A:made B:were made C:have made D:bade made

There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great ____29____ was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man ____30____ heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were ____31____ inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change ____32____ . There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ____33____ them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today. The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies ____34____ sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new ____35____ was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking ____36____ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ____37____ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. ____38____ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

A:made B:were made C:have made D:bade made

There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great ____29____ was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man ____30____ heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were ____31____ inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change ____32____ . There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ____33____ them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today. The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies ____34____ sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new ____35____ was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking ____36____ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ____37____ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. ____38____ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

A:made B:were made C:have made D:bade made

There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great (16) was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man (17) heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were (18) inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change (19) . There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. (20) them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today.
The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies (21) sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new (22) was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking (23) ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, (24) their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. (25) first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

A:made B:were made C:have made D:bade made

There have been many great inventions that change the way we live. The first great ____29____ was one that is still very important today—the wheel. This made it easy for man ____30____ heavy things and to travel long distances. For hundreds of years after that, there were ____31____ inventions that had as much effect as the wheel. Then in the early 1800’s the world started to change ____32____ . There was little unknown land left in the world. People did not have to explore much any more. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. ____33____ them were the camera, the electric light and the radio. These have all become a big part of our life today. The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909. Movies ____34____ sound in 1926. The computer in 1928. And jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new ____35____ was first made. Nylon came out in 1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wear. Of course new inventions continued to be made. Man began looking ____36____ ways to go into space. Russia made the first step. Then the United States took another. Since then other countries, including China and Japan, ____37____ their steps into space. In 1969 man took his biggest step away from earth. ____38____ first walked on the moon. This was certainly just a beginning. New inventions will someday allow us to do things we have never yet dreamed of.

A:made B:were made C:have made D:bade made