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第 PAGE 页码 页码 页 / 总页数 NUMPAGES 总页数 总页数 页 四级考试阅读理解训练题含答案 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《四级考试阅读理解训练题含答案》的内容，具体内容：备考英语四级考试过程中，只有坚持每天阅读训练，才能提高阅读理解能力，下面我为大家带来四级考试阅读理解训练题，供大家阅读练习。四级考试阅读理解训练题(一)Polyeste... 备考英语四级考试过程中，只有坚持每天阅读训练，才能提高阅读理解能力，下面我为大家带来四级考试阅读理解训练题，供大家阅读练习。 四级考试阅读理解训练题(一) Polyester (聚酯 ) is now being used for bottles. ICI, the chemicals and plastics company, believes that 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 traditional products have been doing badly world-wide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 the Plastics 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 from which high quality polyester bottles are made. The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s, when soft drinks companies like Coca Cola started selling their drinks in giant two-liter containers. Because of the build-up of the pressure of gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which had been used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic had to be made. Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles, and will continue to be so unless oil and plastic become 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 are unlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester, since these bottles mean few breakages, which are costly and time-consuming. The public, though, have been more difficult to persuade. ICIs commercial department is developing different bottles with interesting shapes, to try and m