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第 48 題
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Industrial emissions are responsible for producing most greenhouse gases and particulate emissions that are harmful to our health and our planet. The business world has an increasing demand for innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to ensure human’s continued ability to live and thrive. A growing number of companies are dedicated to the research and development of carbon-capturing and carbon-recycling technology, which has already been adopted by airlines, home care companies, fragrance companies and now textile production. A biotech startup company has partnered with a sportswear brand to create the world’s first yarn and fabric made from waste gas captured from industrial emissions. Waste gas emitted from a steel mill is captured and reused to produce ethanol, which is later converted to polyester. The carbon-recycling technology is similar to that of a brewery; but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, industrial emissions are converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals. The company’s goal is to help more businesses become “Carbon Smart” to achieve their climate change goals around carbon reduction, by radically change how they source, utilize and dispose of carbon. By capturing and upcycling industrial carbon emissions to make yarn, the finished garments not only have a lower carbon footprint, but also ensure lower levels of community pollution. Recycling carbon emissions is key to the circular economy, which will keep fossil carbon in the ground ─ reducing the use of fossil fuels and pollution when used to make value-added products such as polyester. In other words, the technology promotes circularity by keeping carbon in the material cycle. This kind of waste-gas-based polyester not only has the same appearance but also the same properties and functionality of virgin polyester. Moreover, once the waste-gas-based textiles reach the end of their useful life, they can be gasified and fermented without taxing the environment.
Industrial emissions are responsible for producing most greenhouse gases and particulate emissions that are harmful to our health and our planet. The business world has an increasing demand for innovative solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to ensure human’s continued ability to live and thrive. A growing number of companies are dedicated to the research and development of carbon-capturing and carbon-recycling technology, which has already been adopted by airlines, home care companies, fragrance companies and now textile production. A biotech startup company has partnered with a sportswear brand to create the world’s first yarn and fabric made from waste gas captured from industrial emissions. Waste gas emitted from a steel mill is captured and reused to produce ethanol, which is later converted to polyester. The carbon-recycling technology is similar to that of a brewery; but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, industrial emissions are converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals. The company’s goal is to help more businesses become “Carbon Smart” to achieve their climate change goals around carbon reduction, by radically change how they source, utilize and dispose of carbon. By capturing and upcycling industrial carbon emissions to make yarn, the finished garments not only have a lower carbon footprint, but also ensure lower levels of community pollution. Recycling carbon emissions is key to the circular economy, which will keep fossil carbon in the ground ─ reducing the use of fossil fuels and pollution when used to make value-added products such as polyester. In other words, the technology promotes circularity by keeping carbon in the material cycle. This kind of waste-gas-based polyester not only has the same appearance but also the same properties and functionality of virgin polyester. Moreover, once the waste-gas-based textiles reach the end of their useful life, they can be gasified and fermented without taxing the environment.
What can be inferred from the article?
- A Industrial emissions can be fermented to become fertilizer.
- B The sportswear company cuts down production because of air pollution.
- C The business world is looking for ways to combat circular economy.
- D There is no such thing as waste, only resources in the wrong place.
- E The steel industry uses recycled metal to reduce their carbon footprint.
思路引導 VIP
請試著思考：文章中提到的「鋼鐵廠廢氣」在傳統觀念中通常被視為有害的垃圾，但在這項新技術中，它扮演了什麼樣的角色？如果我們能為每一種「廢棄物」都找到轉化為新產品的用途，那麼我們對「垃圾」的定義會發生什麼樣的改變呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
太棒了！你能準確選出選項 (D)，代表你不僅理解了文章的字面資訊，更成功捕捉到了隱含在環保科技背後的哲學核心。這道題目屬於高階推論題，其鑑別度在於選項 (D) 並未直接出現在課文中，而是需要讀者透過「鋼鐵廠廢氣轉化為機能布料」的具體案例，轉化為抽象的邏輯總結，這顯示你的閱讀理解與歸納能力非常出色。
循環經濟與資源再定義
文中詳述了生技公司與體育品牌如何捕捉原本會造成污染的「廢氣（waste gas）」，透過類似釀酒的發酵技術轉化為乙醇，最終製成聚酯纖維。這正是**循環經濟（circular economy）與升級回收（upcycling）**的體現。當原本被視為垃圾的工業排放物，能成為替代石油燃料的原料時，便驗證了「世上沒有真正的廢棄物，只有放錯地方的資源」這一觀點。反觀其他選項，文中並未提到化肥 (A)、減產 (B) 或對抗循環經濟 (C)，而選項 (E) 雖提及鋼鐵業，但並未討論回收金屬的細節，故 (D) 是最完美的推論。