1、Test 11D 阅读理解In 2019,McCartneys company,MacRebur,built the worlds first plastic road inElgin Town,Scotland.It looks just like any other road but is much stronger and morestretchy(有弹性的)thanks to the plastic.McCartneys idea of building plastic roads came from a trip to India.“I sawpeople in India melt
2、 down plastic waste to fix the potholes(坑洼)on roads,”he said.“I knew that there must be some resemblances between the plastic and bitumen(沥青),which both come from oil.Thats how I started to think about mixing them.”After lots of testing,McCartney found the perfect recipe(配方).And now hiscompany has b
3、uilt many plastic roads around the world.The one-kilometer road usesabout 684,000 plastic bottles or 1.8 million plastic bags.The road itself can berecycled.Its materials can be reused to build new roads.2019 年，McCartney 的公司 MacRebur 在苏格兰的 Elgin 镇修建了世界上第一条塑料公路。它看起来与其他公路一样，但由于使用了塑料，它更加坚固且更有弹性。McCartney 修建塑料公路的想法来自于一次印度之行。他说：“我看到印度人把塑料垃圾熔化，用来修补道路上的坑洼。我知道，塑料和沥青之间一定有一些相似之处，它们都来自石油。这就是我开始考虑将它们混合起来的原因。”经过大量的测试，McCartney 找到了完美的配方。现在他的公司已经在世界各地修建了许多条塑料公路。一公里的公路会使用约 68.4 万个塑料瓶或 180 万个塑料袋。公路本身也可以被回收利用。它的材料可以被重新用来修建新的公路。
