D

Sweden is so good at recycling that，for several years，it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going．Less than I percent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011．

We can only dream of such an effective system in the UK，which is why we end up paying expensive transport costs to send rubbish to be recycled overseas rather than paying fines to send it to landfill under The Landfill Tax of 1996．

Why are we sending waste to Sweden? Their system is so far ahead because of a culture of looking after the environment．Sweden was one of the first countries to carry out a heavy tax on fossil fuels in 1991 and now sources almost half its electricity from renewables．

“Swedish people are quite keen on being out in nature and they are aware of what we need do on nature and environmental issues．We worked on communications for a long time to make people aware not to throw things outdoors so that we can recycle and reuse，”says Anna-Carin Gripwall，director of communications for Avfall Sverige，the Swedish Waste Management’s recycling association．

Over time，Sweden has performed a related national recycling policy so that even though private companies undertake most of the business of importing and burning waste，the energy goes into a national heating network to heat homes through the freezing Swedish winter．

“That’s a key reason that we have this district network，so we can make use of the heating from the waste plants．In the southern part of Europe they don’t make use of the heating from the waste，it just goes out the chimney．Here we use it as a substitute for fossil fuel，”Ms Gripwall says．

32．What can be inferred from Paragraph 1?

A．The residents are too lazy to send their rubbish to the landfill．

B．Most of the household rubbish is sent to recycling plants in Sweden．

C．The Swedish government refused to buy rubbish from other countries．

D．There isn’t much household waste in Sweden because of its population．

33．In Paragraph 2 the author expresses that_______．

A．UK is a country that exports its rubbish

B．UK has paid a lot of fines under the Landfill Tax

C．Expensive transport cost in UK has been already ended up

D．Expenses on the transport of rubbish in England are too high

34．According to Ms Gripwall，Sweden set up the recycling network in order to_______．

A．change the life style of the Swedish people

B．reduce the amount of rubbish in the landfill

C．make good use of the energy from the waste

D．increase the income of the private companies

35．Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A．Landfills in Sweden． B．Rubbish from abroad．