资讯详情

Polyester (聚酯) is now being used for bottles.ICI, the chemicals and plastics company, believesthat it is now beginning to break the grip of glass on

the bottle business and thus take advantage of this huge market.

All the plastics manufacturers have been experiencing hard times as their traditionalproducts have been doing badly world-wide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 thePlastics Division of ICI had lost a hundred and twenty million dollars, and they felt that the.most hopeful new market was in packaging, bottles and cans.

Since 1982 it has opened three new factories producing Melinar, the raw material fromwhich high quality polyester bottles are made.

The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s, when soft drinks companies like Coca Colastarted selling their drinks in giant two-liter containers. Because of the build-up of the pressureof gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which hadbeen used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic hadto be made.

Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles, and will continue to be so unless oil and plasticbecome much cheaper, but plastic does well for the larger sizes.

Polyester bottles are virtually unbreakable. The manufacturers claim they are also lighter,less noisy when being handled, and can be reused. Shopkeepers and other business people areunlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester, since these bottles mean fewbreakages, which are costly and time-consuming. The public, though, have been more difficultto persuade. ICIs commercial department is developing different bottles with interestingshapes, to try and make them visually more attractive to the public.

The next step could be to develop a plastic which could replace tins for food. The problemhere is the high temperatures necessary for cooking the food in the container.

26. Plastics of various kinds have been used for making bottles__________.

A. since 1982

B. since the 1970s but only for large bottles

C. since the 1960s but not for liquids with gas in them

D. since companies like Coca Cola first tried them

27. Why is ICIs Plastics Division interested in polyester for bottles?

A. The other things they make are not selling well.

B. Glass manufacturers cannot make enough new bottles.

C. They have factories which could be adapted to make it.

D. The price of oil keeps changing.

28. Why arent all bottles now made of polyester?

A. The price of oil and plastic has risen.

B. It is not suitable for containing gassy drinks.

C. The public like traditional glass bottles.

D. Shop-keepers dislike reusable bottles.

29. Manufacturers think polyester bottles are better than glass bottles because they

A. are cheaper B. are more suited to small sizes

C. are more exciting to look at D. do not break easily

30. Plastic containers for holding food in the same way as cans______.

A. have been used for many years

B. are an idea that interests the plastics companies

C. are possible, but only for hot food

D. are the first things being made in the new factories

参考答案：

26. C 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. B

以上就是查字典大学网为同学们带来的“2016年12月英语六级阅读练习题及答案(二十七)”内容了，希望看完能够带给大家一些力量，对同学的生活有所启示，更多内容在这里，请继续关注我们。