Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question, circle letter A, B, C or D next to the answer you choose. (10 pts)

If you’re an environmentalist, plastic is a word you tend to say with a sneer or a snarl. It has become a symbol of our wasteful, throw-way society. But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous  (2)______ even environmental ones. It’s not really the plastics themselves that are the environmental (3)______ – it’s the way society choose to use and  abuse them. Almost all the 50 or so different kinds of modern plastic are made from oil, gas or coal – non-renewable natural (4)______. We import well over three million tons of the stuff in Britain each year and, sooner or later, most of it is thrown away. A high proportion of our annual consumption is in the (5)______ of packaging, and this  (6)______ about seven per cent by weight of our domestic refuse. Almost all of it could be recycled, but very little of it is, though the plastic recycling (7)______ is growing fast. The plastics themselves are extremely energy-rich – they have a higher calorific (8)______ than coal and one (9)______ of ‘recovery’ strongly favored by the plastic manufacturers is the  (10)______ of waste plastic into a fuel.

But there seems little (1)______ it is here to stay, and the truth is, of course, that plastic has brought enormous  (2)____