Passage 5Questions 34 - 45
　　● Read the article below about degradable plastic in UK.
　　● In most of the lines 34-45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of text. Some lines, however, are correct.
　　● If a line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.
　　● If there is an extra word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer Sheet.
　　● The exercise begins with two examples, (0) and (00).
　　0. The end of the most widely used product of the 20th century may come sooner than expected.
　　00. World production of plastic bags is at an ail-time high, but a substance which developed
　　34. in the Britain is said to be reducing their lifespan from decades to just a few months.
　　35. In a quiet revolution, four of the five supermarket chains in the UK have now been switched
　　36. to degradable bags. Put together, these stores hand out up to 10 billion plastic bags each year.
　　37. They are made with an additive known as D2W and become brittle when they exposed to air.
　　38. They then decompose into water and carbon dioxide with minimal trace elements in just two months.
　　39. Brits throw out almost 1 million tones of plastic waste a year, but much of which ends up in
　　40. landfill sites after being taken used for only a few days. A rubbish sack or carrier bag could
　　41. have a useful life expectancy of two years longer, while a bread bag may be expected to last
　　42. no longer than a few months. Two-thirds of all food is now wrapped in a plastic, and only one
　　43. in every 200 plastic bags is thought to be recycled. “The technology is now new, but the
　　44. application is,” says Allan Blacher, of Hertfordshire based Sympony Plastics in southeast
　　45. England. It is one of several companies worldwide that pioneering the disposal technology.