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There is a passage with ten blanks . You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage . Even though holiday sales were down at least 2% from 2007, millions of Americans awoke Christmas morning to new computers, TVs and iPhones. Many of those gifts were replacements or 1 , which prompts the question, what should you do with your old cell phone and other electronic 2 ? If you‘re like some 80% of Americans, you‘ll simply toss your waste gizmos ( 小玩意 ) into the trash. Every day Americans 3 out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, electronic waste the fastest-growing part of the U.S. garbage stream. 4 disposed of, the lead, mercury and other toxic materials inside e-waste can 5 from landfills. If you‘re part of the 20% trying to do the right thing by 6 your e-waste, there‘s something else to worry about. Old phones and computers can be dismantled ( 拆卸 ) to get at the useful metals inside, but doing so safely is 7 . Thus, many electronics recyclers ship American e-waste 8 , where it is stripped and burned with little 9 for environmental or human health. And authorities rarely stop the export of potentially hazardous e-waste. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that refused to approve the 19-year-old Basel Convention, an international treaty designed to regulate the export of hazardous waste to 10 nations. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversees the export of only one type of e-waste—cathode-ray tubes in old TVs and monitors—and a report last August by the Government Accountability Office dismissed the EPA‘s enforcement as “lacking”. A.Instrument B.concern C.upgrades D.abroad E.throw F.equipment G.leak H. repairing I.suffer J.recycling K.time-consuming L.wasteful M.improperly N. developing O domestic

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